Patent ID: 9734958
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: H01H

Claim:
1. A method for closing a switch, the switch including a stationary contact area and a moving contact area, the moving contact area being movable from an open position to a closed position in which the moving contact area bears against the stationary contact area, the two contact areas lying in a common contact plane, and the two contact areas each running parallel to one another and including an elastic transverse offset in the open position, the contact areas being pressed against one another by the transverse offset in the closed position, the method comprising: pressing, via a moving counter-pressure element, the moving contact area in a direction of the common contact plane in the open position, as a result of which a transverse offset is at least reduced; moving the counter-pressure element in a direction of the closed position together with the moving switching contact when the switch is closed; and stopping the counter-pressure element during a course of a closing movement, while the moving contact area initially continues to be moved, in a sliding manner on the counter-pressure element, until it is in the closed position, wherein