Patent ID: 6743989
Filing Date: 2004-06-01
Classification: H01H

Abstract:
A microswitch having a predominantly plate-shaped substrate, a stationary contact piece fitted on the substrate, a moveable contact piece, which electrically contacts the stationary contact piece in the switch-on position of the switch and is isolated from the stationary contact piece in the switch-off position of the switch, a bendable contact carrier, which holds the moveable contact piece and is fixed to the substrate by two ends, and a drive which guides the contact carrier into the switch-on or switch-off position by elastic deformation, wherein the contact carrier is deformable in a substrate-parallel fashion, and wherein, in a first stable position corresponding to the switch-off position, the contact carrier has the form of a symmetrical antinode, and wherein, in a second stable position corresponding to the switch-on position, the contact carrier is formed in the manner of an asymmetrical antinode.