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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2009
Uwe Gillmann, Berlin, DE;
Rainer Maurer, Berlin, DE;
Michael Stoffers, Berlin, DE;
CoActive Technologies, Inc., Newton, MA (US);
Abstract
A rocker switch including a switching unit made up of a housing and including a spring-action switching element that moves back and forth with an actuating rocker that is connected to the switching element, whereby the switching element has a rotating axle rotatably supported within the housing and is surrounded by a spring. The spring is double wound and held in a prestressed state within the housing, one of the spring end shanks of the spring being fixedly supported within the housing, the other spring end shank being supported on a first arm that is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotating axle, and an extended central spring leg being both fixedly supported within the housing as well as being supported on a second arm that is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotating axle, and with an electrical switching unit.