Patent ID: 7528331

Claim:
A control which includes a housing, a drum having an exposed surface that has left and right drum surface end portions and that can be manually turned and depressed, the drum including a shaft that rotatably supports the drum on the housing, the control including a turning signal generator that is coupled to said drum and that generates signals indicating rotation of the drum, and the control including a depressable switch assembly that detects depressions of the drum and that includes left and right stationary contacts mounted on the housing and that includes a resilient trigger member with left and right branches that are each deflectable by downward depression of an end portion of the drum respectively against said left and right stationary contacts, wherein: said resilient trigger member has a trigger member middle that is supported on said housing, and said trigger member right and left end portions each extends at an upward incline from said switch member middle toward a corresponding one of said drum surface end portions.