Patent ID: 6969814

Claim:
A pushbutton arrangement comprising a housing having a housing opening, a pressure switching element positioned within the housing, a pushbutton engageable with the pressure switching element within the housing, wherein said pushbutton has an elastically deformable hood extending out of the housing opening, wherein said elastically deformable hood has an inner hood wall, a hood opening and a hood edge, which hood edge engages the housing opening from inside the housing, and an insertion ring, wherein said insertion ring has an insertion ring height (H), a hood-side edge and a hood-opening-side edge wherein recesses emanate from the hood-side edge and from the hood-opening-side edge, and an outer ring wall which fits against the inner hood wall and which is receivable in the elastically deformable hood between the inner hood wall and the pushbutton, and wherein the diameter of the outer ring wall is elastically modifiable along the height (H) of the insertion ring.