Patent ID: 6960732
Filing Date: 2005-11-01
Classification: H01H

Abstract:
1. An electric switch with a cap-shaped activation element that is inserted and retained with limited axial adjustability in a pot-shaped receptacle formed on a switch panel and that is connected to a control component of a switch part that is set to two positions by means of the activation element, wherein two axially-aligned snap springs are separated on a perimeter of the activation element that protrude over a peripheral contour of the activation element with snap flanges, that the snap springs are adapted to be snapped into axially-aligned snap notches of the pot-shaped receptacle on a control/display screen and have limited axial adjustability, that the pot-shaped receptacle provides a receiving cavity for the switch part into which the switch part is introducible perpendicular to axial direction and localizable in the pot-shaped receptacle, that the receptacle of the control/display screen is at least partially closed and acts as a limit stop for the axial adjustment of the activation element in the pot-shaped receptacle, that an exposed face of the activation element constitutes a counter-stop and that when inserting the switch part into the receiving cavity, the control component of the switch part is introducible with a catch into a catch receptacle of the activation element and subsequently connectable with the activation element.