Patent ID: 7442895
Filing Date: 2008-10-28
Classification: H01H

Abstract:
1. Electrical switch, comprising: a common contact body; a pre-tensioned elastically deformable contactor comprising a leaf spring portion and contact fingers projecting from a plane of the leaf spring, the contactor being electrically conductively connected to the common contact body; an actuating member for elastically deforming the contactor; and a first selective contact body having contact surfaces and a second selective contact body having contact surfaces; and wherein at least one first finger of the contactor, under pre-tension of the contactor, is in contact only with the contact surfaces of the first selective contact body and at least one second finger of the contactor is not in contact with the contact surfaces of either the first or the second selective contact body when the actuator is in a first switch position, and the at least one second finger of the contactor is in contact only with the contact surfaces of the second selective contact body and the at least one first finger of the contactor is not in contact with the contact surfaces of either the first or the second selective contact body when the actuator is in a second switch position and the respective contact fingers slidingly engage the respective contact surfaces during movement of the actuator between the switch positions.