Patent ID: 7952044

Claim:
An actuator subassembly for a rocker switch, said rocker switch comprising a housing, a plunger and a number of contact elements, the housing including an exterior, an interior having a cavity, and an opening providing access from the exterior to said cavity, said plunger being movably coupled to said housing within said cavity, said cavity having a width, said actuator subassembly comprising: an operating member structured to be movably coupled to the housing of said rocker switch at or about said opening, said operating member including at least one projection structured to extend into said cavity of the housing; and a sub-actuator structured to be removably coupled to said at least one projection of said operating member between said operating member and said plunger of said rocker switch, said sub-actuator comprising a shaped portion, a number of contacting portions and a depth, the shaped portion being structured to cooperate with said plunger to provide a plurality of operating characteristics of said operating member, said operating characteristics including a plurality of positions of said operating member, each of the number of contacting portions being structured to contact a corresponding one of said number of contact elements of said rocker switch when said operating member is disposed in a corresponding one of said plurality of positions, wherein, when said actuator subassembly is coupled to the housing of said rocker switch, the depth of said sub-actuator is structured to occupy less than one-third of the width of said cavity of the housing.