Patent ID: 9087652
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: H01H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An electrical switch including at least one switching unit, the electrical switch comprising: a contact lever, pivotable around a pivot axis and including at least one electrical switch contact; and two parallel plates, between which the contact lever is resiliently retained by way of pins, the contact lever with the plates and the pins being inserted into an electrically non-conductive housing of the at least one switching unit, wherein at least one of the pins is a retaining pin, and a length of the retaining pin exceeds a distance between the parallel plates such that the retaining pin extends through a hole in each of the two parallel plates and engages a first retaining recess in the housing with one pin end and engages a second retaining recess in the housing with the other pin end, the first retaining recess being opposite to the second retaining recess.