Patent ID: 6080949
Filing Date: 2000-06-27
Classification: H01H

Abstract:
An electric switch, with a housing, a contact lever moveable between two end settings and pivotal within the housing, a moveable switch piece and at least one fixed contact which is rigidly mounted in the housing and, in one end setting of the contact lever, is tensioned by said housing, whereby one of the contact lever and the switch piece bears a wedge profile and the other of the switch piece and the contact lever has a switch element resting against the wedge profile where the switch piece in the housing can move along a straight path extending essentially perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the contact lever, and where the switch element and the wedge profile are pretensioned against each other in a direction running essentially perpendicular to the motion direction of the switch piece, characterized in that the contour of at least one of two wedge surfaces forming the wedge profile sensed by the switching element is curved.