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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2013
Tokyo Cosmos Electric Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Hajime Fukushima, Kanagawa, JP;
Taro Fukunaga, Kanagawa, JP;
TOKYO COSMOS ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
The click mechanism comprises a springmade of a plate material and disposed on a rotatable platethat rotates integrally with a rotationally-manipulated shaftof an electric part; two cylindrical click piecesdisposed on an outer perimeter of the rotatable platein positions forming an angle of 180° with respect to each other so as to retractably protrude from the positions at different heights on the outer perimeter in an axial direction; and projections and depressionsandformed on an inner perimeter of a housingin a circumferential direction, in two upper and lower tiers in the axial direction. The projections and depressionsandin the two upper and lower tiers are staggered and the two click piecesare biased by the springto be in resilient contact with the projections and depressionsand