EP0040324B1 - Push-button switch - Google Patents

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EP0040324B1
EP0040324B1 EP81102803A EP81102803A EP0040324B1 EP 0040324 B1 EP0040324 B1 EP 0040324B1 EP 81102803 A EP81102803 A EP 81102803A EP 81102803 A EP81102803 A EP 81102803A EP 0040324 B1 EP0040324 B1 EP 0040324B1
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Wolfgang Ing.-Grad. Labude
Karl-Heinz Bauer
Edgar Maisch
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    • H01HELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H13/00Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch
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  • the invention is based on a push button switch according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Pushbutton switches are used in particular in multiple versions, e.g. for pushbutton assemblies required for switching on the individual channels of HF receivers, e.g. Radio and television receivers.
  • the preset tuning voltage and thus the assigned station or channel can be switched on by pressing a single button.
  • the set tuning voltage is stored in the channel memory in the form of spindle resistors or rotary resistors connected as voltage dividers.
  • a pushbutton switch in connection with a pushbutton unit is already known, DE-A-28 33 184, which has a narrow, elongated switching rod which is guided in the front and rear wall of the housing.
  • contact rails Transverse to the shift rods, contact rails are held on the bottom of the housing, which among other things consists of a connecting part and a number of U-shaped spring parts corresponding to the number of shift rods.
  • One end of the spring part is connected to the connecting part, while the free end cooperates with the lugs of the shift rod.
  • the free ends of the spring parts are pressed against respectively assigned wire contacts via the lugs.
  • the spring parts thus serve at the same time as a return spring for the shift rods as well as an electrical connecting element. When switched on, the spring parts are subjected to both bending and torsion.
  • a push button switch is also already known, DE-A-2360168, in which a plunger can be displaced in a housing against the force of a return spring.
  • the snap spring and the contact arm are integrally and J-shaped. With the arcuate intermediate piece, the spring is pivotally mounted in a fixed contact piece. The free end of the long spring arm lies in a cutting edge bearing of the ram. The long spring arm is thus clamped arched on one side between two abutments.
  • the short spring arm serves as a contact arm and it carries a contact rivet.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a pushbutton switch of the type mentioned at the outset which has the smallest possible overall width. According to the invention, this object is achieved by the features specified in the characterizing part of patent claim 1. Further advantageous embodiments of the invention can be found in the subclaims.
  • the pushbutton unit shown in FIG. 1 has, for example, eight pushbuttons for switching on the tuning voltages preset in the individual channel memories.
  • the channel accumulators consist of spindle resistors in which a spring carrier 49 with a sliding contact 50 is guided along a spindle 48 by turning a push-button 12.
  • the sliding contact establishes an electrical connection between a collector track or the spindle and a resistance element 9 (see FIG. 6) which is applied in a multiple arrangement in a known manner on an insulating plate made of hard paper or plastic.
  • This insulating material plate which is denoted by 2 in FIG. 1, forms the end of a housing 1 that is open on one side.
  • the housing itself is made of a glass fiber reinforced plastic for reasons of stability and thus also the return accuracy.
  • the soldering lugs 3 of the resistance elements protrude laterally out of the housing.
  • a push knob 12 which has a corrugated or otherwise non-slip edge. This allows the push button to be turned directly.
  • the push button can also be turned using a socket wrench, not shown in FIG. 1.
  • the push knob is provided with a cavity 13 which has a certain inner profile.
  • the socket wrench is inserted into this cavity, with the socket wrench outside has a profile that interacts with the inner profile in the sense of being carried along.
  • This coupling element 51 has a suspension ring 52 on the circumference, which interacts with an opposite slope on the outside of the push-button 12. Furthermore, the push-button at the end of the slope has an axially parallel toothing, the crosswise teeth 53 of which, when pressed, protrude into a corresponding inner profile of the coupling element 51 and act in the sense of a driver coupling. By pressing in the push button, the coupling element 51 is also pressed against the housing wall.
  • protruding warts 56 are formed, which then engage in incisions 57 in the coupling element 51 and cause a gradual detent according to the number of frequency ranges.
  • the push-button 12 is guided along a sleeve 58 molded onto the housing and immersed in the push-button 12.
  • the pushbutton has integrally formed snap tongues 59 which protrude through the coupling element into a longitudinal section 60 of the spindle and interact with the housing in a latching manner.
  • the coupling element also has an integrally formed pointer 14 which, depending on the latching position, is visible in one of the three display windows 15 of the locking rail 7 arranged in the form of a segment of a circle.
  • a swivel projection 65 which has a continuous cutout 66 in the middle, is integrally formed on the coupling element 51.
  • a resilient loop 69 of a wire-shaped contact spring 68 is inserted through this cutout. As will be explained, this contact spring serves for frequency range switching or band switching. If the coupling element is rotated into one of its locking positions, this contact spring 68 is also pivoted accordingly by a small angular range.
  • first busbar 61 made of metal is also arranged as a counterpart.
  • These busbars are common to all push buttons and their number corresponds to the number of preselectable frequency ranges or bands.
  • Each of these busbars has elongated recesses 67 corresponding to the number of pushbuttons, on the edge of which contact parts 70 are bent in pairs opposite one another on the longitudinal sides. These contact parts serve on the one hand as a holder on the housing and on the other hand as a counter contact to the resilient loop 69 of the contact spring.
  • these contact parts are located either at the right end of the recess 67, in the middle or at the left end, so that a total of three switching positions are possible.
  • the locking rail 7 is guided on the front outside of the housing in such a way that the locking rail has locking lugs 21 formed on its long side, which cooperate with locking receptacles 22 on the housing.
  • the locking rail is provided on the underside with an integrally formed web 23 which extends from the transverse side in the direction of displacement and is guided in a groove 24 in the housing.
  • the locking receptacles are designed as slots extending in the displacement direction, the length of which must correspond at least to the displacement stroke.
  • the openings 25 in the locking rail, through which the push buttons 12 and the push buttons 16 protrude, are likewise enlarged at least by the displacement stroke.
  • a mounting tab 26 is formed, with the help of which the push button assembly can be attached to the chassis of a television receiver.
  • each assembly has four snap hooks 27 on one side of the housing, which engage openings of the neighboring assembly, which are not shown in FIG.
  • locking lugs are provided for exact positioning of the structural units relative to one another, which are fitted into holes 28 of the neighboring structural unit.
  • the pushbuttons should also be mutually triggerable here.
  • each locking rail has a lateral driving arm 29 on one long side, which engages in a correspondingly profiled recess in the neighboring locking rail and ensures play-free driving.
  • the push button 16 consists of a flat key slide 4, one end of which is guided in a guide in a rear longitudinal wall 11 of the switch housing. The other end, which is guided in a front longitudinal wall, carries on its front end protruding from the housing a push button 19 which is press-fitted onto the key slide or which is integrally molded directly onto the key slide.
  • Each key slide is held in the housing and limited in its direction of displacement by a retaining lug 37 and by a stop which is not visible in FIG. 1.
  • the push button assembly shown in Figure 1 gat is to be used in particular in television receivers. To do this, it is necessary that in addition to switching on the channel, the frequency range is switched over. That is why two independent contact systems are operated with the key slide. For this reason, two leaf springs 8 are arranged in groove-shaped recesses B6 in the key slide. That leaf spring 8 is, as can be seen from FIGS. 4 and 5, J-shaped with a long spring arm 30 and a short spring arm 31, both of which are connected in one piece via an arcuate intermediate piece 32. This leaf spring is clamped between two abutments in such a way that it is slightly curved on one side. One way to achieve this is to arrange the two abutments in a non-aligned manner. The slight curvature of the leaf spring to one side is intended to ensure that when the two abutments move relative to one another, the leaf spring always bulges further towards this side.
  • the leaf spring itself can be made entirely of silver or of an inexpensive material to lower the contact resistance, which is provided at least on its contacting surface with a silver layer or another highly conductive contact layer.
  • the leaf spring also fulfills a double function, since on the one hand it is a contact spring and on the other hand it is also a return spring for the push button.
  • the long spring arm essentially takes over the function of the return spring, while the short spring arm serves as a contact arm. Due to this special J-shaped design of the leaf spring, the push button is very easy to operate.
  • the pressing force of the short spring arm also has to be added to the stationary contact piece, but this pressing force is reduced in relation to the distances between the action points.
  • the pressing force is supported by the angling of the short spring arm, which is approximately perpendicular to the push button's sliding direction.
  • the first abutment 33 is located in the key slide 4 at the end of the recess closer to the push button 19.
  • the second abutment is formed by a V-shaped cutting edge bearing 35 in a first fixed contact piece 34.
  • This contact piece is also a spring element, which is made of metal.
  • a plurality of spring elements are connected to one another by a connecting part 41 and constitute a first contact rail 40, the soldered connection part 42 of which is led laterally out of the housing.
  • this first contact rail 40 is attached to the rear longitudinal wall 11 of the housing. Also on this rear longitudinal wall, a second contact rail 43 is held with the solder connection part 53, the first contact rail being used for switching through the frequency range selection.
  • Both contact rails are fastened to the longitudinal wall by means of screws 55 in such a way that they are electrically insulated from one another by an insulating plate 54. In addition, they are laterally offset from one another.
  • One spring element each of the first and second contact rails form a pair and they are arranged such that they are aligned with the two cutouts in the key switch. Since on the one hand the spring elements belonging in pairs lie one behind the other and on the other hand the leaf springs are of the same size, the recesses in the key slide are of different lengths.
  • the long spring arm lies in the first abutment in the key slide. With the arc-shaped intermediate piece 32, the leaf spring 8 lies in the V-shaped cutting edge bearing 35 of the spring element 34 of the contact rail 40.
  • the short spring arm 31 has an angled portion directed against the long spring arm 30 at its free end. As can be seen from FIG. 5, the long spring arm presses the short spring arm against the second stationary contact piece 38 by means of the bend. This significantly increases the contact pressure.
  • the first spring arm thus serves both as a return spring for the key slide and as a support for the short spring arm, which in the switched-on position establishes an electrical connection between the contact rail and the second stationary contact piece.
  • two types of second fixed contact pieces are available.
  • this consists in one piece of a metal part with an upper part which interacts with the short spring arm 31 of the leaf spring, as can be seen in FIGS. 4 and 5, and with a lower part which acts as contact pieces 72 and serves to contact the spindle 48.
  • an opening 73 which is to receive the spindle, runs in the middle from bottom to top in the middle.
  • Two fork arms protrude into this opening from both sides, the lower ends 74 of which are provided with latching lugs which snap into corresponding latching recesses in the housing, and the upper, inwardly pointing spring tongues 75 of which are pretensioned in a groove 76 of the spindle.
  • the second stationary contact piece for the frequency range switchover consists of an angled loop 71 of the contact spring.

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Die Erfindung geht von einem Drucktastenschalter nach dem Oberbegriff des Anspruches 1 aus.The invention is based on a push button switch according to the preamble of claim 1.

Drucktastenschalter werden insbesondere in Mehrfachausführung unter anderem z.B. für Drucktastenaggregate benötigt und zwar zur Einschaltung der einzelnen Kanäle von HF-Empfängern, wie z.B. Rundfunk- und Fernsehempfängern. Durch einen einzigen Tastendruck kann jeweils die voreingestellte Abstimmspannung und damit die zugeordnete Station bzw. der Kanal eingeschaltet werden. Die Speicherung der eingestellten Abstimmspannung erfolgt im Kanalspeicher in der Form von als Spannungsteiler geschalteten Spindelwiderständen oder Drehwiderständen.Pushbutton switches are used in particular in multiple versions, e.g. for pushbutton assemblies required for switching on the individual channels of HF receivers, e.g. Radio and television receivers. The preset tuning voltage and thus the assigned station or channel can be switched on by pressing a single button. The set tuning voltage is stored in the channel memory in the form of spindle resistors or rotary resistors connected as voltage dividers.

Es ist bereits ein Drucktastenschalter in Verbindung mit einem Drucktastenaggregat bekannt, DE-A-28 33 184 der eine schmale, längliche Schaltstange aufweist, die in der Vorder- und Rückwand des Gehäuses geführt ist. Auf der Unterseite sind mehrere angeformte Ansätze vorhanden. Quer zu den Schaltstangen sind am Boden des Gehäuses Kontaktschienen gehaltert, die unter anderem aus einem Verbindungsteil und einer der Anzahl der Schaltstangen entsprechenden Zahl von U-förmig ausgebildeten Federteilen besteht. Ein Ende des Federteils ist mit dem Verbindungsteil verbunden, während das freie Ende mit den Ansätzen der Schaltstange zusammenwirkt.A pushbutton switch in connection with a pushbutton unit is already known, DE-A-28 33 184, which has a narrow, elongated switching rod which is guided in the front and rear wall of the housing. There are several molded lugs on the underside. Transverse to the shift rods, contact rails are held on the bottom of the housing, which among other things consists of a connecting part and a number of U-shaped spring parts corresponding to the number of shift rods. One end of the spring part is connected to the connecting part, while the free end cooperates with the lugs of the shift rod.

Wird eine der Schaltstangen gedrückt, so werden über die Ansätze die freien Enden der Federteile gegen jeweils zugeordnete Drahtkontakte gedrückt. Die Federteile dienen somit gleichzeitig als Rückholfeder für die Schaltstangen wie auch als elektrisches Verbindungsglied. Die Federteile werden im Einschaltzustand sowohl auf Biegung wie auch auf Torsion beansprucht.If one of the shift rods is pressed, the free ends of the spring parts are pressed against respectively assigned wire contacts via the lugs. The spring parts thus serve at the same time as a return spring for the shift rods as well as an electrical connecting element. When switched on, the spring parts are subjected to both bending and torsion.

Es ist ferner bereits ein Drucktastenschalter bekannt, DE-A-2360168, bei dem in einem Gehäuse ein Stössel gegen die Kraft einer Rückstellfeder verschiebbar ist. Die Schnappfeder und der Kontaktarm sind einstückig und J-förmig ausgebildet. Mit dem bogenförmigen Zwischenstück ist die Feder in einem ortsfesten Kontaktstück schwenkbar gelagert. Das freie Ende des langen Federarmes liegt in einem Schneidenlager des Stössels. Der lange Federarm ist somit zwischen zwei Widerlager einseitig gewölbt eingespannt. Der kurze Federarm dient als Kontaktarm und er trägt einen Kontaktniet. Bei einem Ausführungsbeispiel sind zwei zu beiden Seiten des Stössels angeordnete Schnappfedern vorhanden und ausserdem ist am Stössel noch ein Stützglied vorhanden, das in Verschiebrichtung des Stössels auf und ab verschiebbar gelagert ist. Drückt man den Stössel nach unten, so wird die Rückstellfeder zusammengedrückt und gleichzeitig erfolgt eine Verschwenkung und Spannung der beiden Schnappfedern. Sobald die Totpunktlage erreicht ist, springen die Schnappfedern schlagartig in die Einschaltstellung, wobei sich das Stützglied relativ zum Stössel bewegt. Dieser Schaltmechanismus bedingt, dass die Schnappfedern symmetrisch und nahezu senkrecht zu der Verschieberichtung des Stössels angeordnet sein müssen. Dadurch wird seitlich sehr viel Platz beansprucht.A push button switch is also already known, DE-A-2360168, in which a plunger can be displaced in a housing against the force of a return spring. The snap spring and the contact arm are integrally and J-shaped. With the arcuate intermediate piece, the spring is pivotally mounted in a fixed contact piece. The free end of the long spring arm lies in a cutting edge bearing of the ram. The long spring arm is thus clamped arched on one side between two abutments. The short spring arm serves as a contact arm and it carries a contact rivet. In one embodiment, there are two snap springs arranged on both sides of the plunger and, in addition, a support member is also present on the plunger, which is slidably mounted in the direction of displacement of the plunger. If you push the plunger down, the return spring is compressed and at the same time the two snap springs pivot and tighten. As soon as the dead center position is reached, the snap springs suddenly jump into the switched-on position, the support member moving relative to the plunger. This switching mechanism means that the snap springs must be arranged symmetrically and almost perpendicular to the direction of displacement of the plunger. This takes up a lot of space on the side.

Aufgabe der vorliegenden Erfindung ist es, einen Drucktastenschalter der eingangs genannten Art zu schaffen, der eine möglichst geringe Baubreite aufweist. Diese Aufgabe wird erfindungsgemäss durch die im kennzeichnenden Teil des Patentanspruches 1 angegebenen Merkmale gelöst. Weitere vorteilhafte Ausgestaltungen der Erfindung sind den Unteransprüchen zu entnehmen.The object of the present invention is to provide a pushbutton switch of the type mentioned at the outset which has the smallest possible overall width. According to the invention, this object is achieved by the features specified in the characterizing part of patent claim 1. Further advantageous embodiments of the invention can be found in the subclaims.

Die Erfindung wird nachfolgend für ein Ausführungsbeispiel anhand der Zeichnungen näher beschrieben.The invention is described below for an embodiment with reference to the drawings.

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  • Figur 1 eine perspektivische Ansicht eines Drucktastenschalters in Verbindung mit einem Drucktastenaggregat,
  • Figur 2 einen Schnitt durch einen Tastenschieber,
  • Figur 3 eine Unteransicht des Tastenschiebers,
  • Figur 4 das Schaltsystem in Stellung AUS
  • Figur das Schaltsystem in Stellung EIN
  • Figur 6 eine Explosionsdarstellung des Drucktastenaggregates, insbesondere der Bandumschalteinrichtung.
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  • FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a push-button switch in connection with a push-button assembly,
  • FIG. 2 shows a section through a key slide,
  • FIG. 3 shows a bottom view of the key slide,
  • Figure 4 shows the switching system in the OFF position
  • Figure the switching system in the ON position
  • Figure 6 is an exploded view of the push button assembly, in particular the band switching device.

Das in Figur 1 dargestellte Drucktastenaggregat besitzt beispielsweise acht Drucktasten zur Einschaltung der in den einzelnen Kanalspeichern voreingestellten Abstimmspannungen. Die Kanalspeicher bestehen aus Spindelwiderständen, bei denen durch Drehen eines Druckdrehknopfes 12 ein Federträger 49 mit einem Schleifkontakt 50 längs einer Spindel 48 geführt wird. Der Schleifkontakt stellt eine elektrische Verbindung her zwischen einer Kollektorbahn oder der Spindel und einem Widerstandselement 9 (siehe Figur 6) das in Mehrfachanordnung in bekannter Weise auf einer Isolierstoffplatte aus Hartpapier oder Kunststoff aufgebracht ist. Diese Isolierstoffplatte, die in Figur 1 mit 2 bezeichnet ist, bildet den Abschluss eines auf einer Seite offenen Gehäuses 1. Das Gehäuse selbst ist aus Gründen der Stabilität und damit auch der Wiederkehrgenauigkeit aus einem glasfaserverstärktem Kunststoff hergestellt. Wie aus Figur 1 hervorgeht, ragen die Lötanschlussfahnen 3 der Widerstandselemente hinten seitlich aus dem Gehäuse heraus. An einem Ende der Spindel befindet sich ein Druckdrehknopf 12, der eine geriffelte oder sonstwie griffig gestaltete Randung besitzt. Hiermit kann der Druckdrehknopf direkt gedreht werden. Man kann jedoch den Druckdrehknopf auch mit Hilfe eines in Figur 1 nicht dargestellten Steckschlüssels drehen. Hierzu ist der Druckdrehknopf mit einer Höhlung 13 versehen, die ein bestimmtes Innenprofil aufweist. Zur Abstimmung wird der Steckschlüssel in diese Höhlung gesteckt, wobei der Steckschlüssel ein Aussenprofil besitzt, das mit dem Innenprofil im Sinne einer Mitnahme zusammenwirkt.The pushbutton unit shown in FIG. 1 has, for example, eight pushbuttons for switching on the tuning voltages preset in the individual channel memories. The channel accumulators consist of spindle resistors in which a spring carrier 49 with a sliding contact 50 is guided along a spindle 48 by turning a push-button 12. The sliding contact establishes an electrical connection between a collector track or the spindle and a resistance element 9 (see FIG. 6) which is applied in a multiple arrangement in a known manner on an insulating plate made of hard paper or plastic. This insulating material plate, which is denoted by 2 in FIG. 1, forms the end of a housing 1 that is open on one side. The housing itself is made of a glass fiber reinforced plastic for reasons of stability and thus also the return accuracy. As can be seen from FIG. 1, the soldering lugs 3 of the resistance elements protrude laterally out of the housing. At one end of the spindle there is a push knob 12 which has a corrugated or otherwise non-slip edge. This allows the push button to be turned directly. However, the push button can also be turned using a socket wrench, not shown in FIG. 1. For this purpose, the push knob is provided with a cavity 13 which has a certain inner profile. For adjustment, the socket wrench is inserted into this cavity, with the socket wrench outside has a profile that interacts with the inner profile in the sense of being carried along.

Zwischen dem Druckdrehknopf und dem Gehäuse liegt ein in Figur 1 nicht sichtbares Kupplungselement für die Frequenzbereichsumschaltung, das aus Kunststoff hergestellt ist. Aus der Explosionsdarstellung der Figur 6 ist das System der Frequenzbereichsumschaltung oder der Bandumschaltung besser zu erkennen. Dieses Kupplungselement 51 besitzt umfangseitig einen Federungskranz 52, der mit einer gegenüberliegenden Schräge auf der Aussenseite des Druckdrehknopfes 12 zusammenwirkt. Weiter besitzt der Druckdrehknopf am Ende der Schräge eine achsparallele Verzahnung, deren kreuzweise angeordneten Zähne 53 im gedrückten Zustand in ein entsprechendes Innenprofil des Kupplungselementes 51 ragen und im Sinne einer Mitnehmerkupplung wirken. Durch das Eindrücken des Druckdrehknopfes wird auch das Kupplungselement 51 gegen die Gehäusewandung gedrückt. An dieser sind zwei diametral gegenüberliegende, vorstehende Warzen 56 angeformt, die dann in Einschnitten 57 des Kupplungselementes 51 eingreifen und eine schrittweise Rastung entsprechend der Anzahl der Frequenzbereiche bewirken. Um eine bessere Führung des Druckdrehknopfes 12 zu gewährleisten, ist dieser längs einer an das Gehäuse angeformten Hülse 58 geführt, die in den Druckdrehknopf 12 eintaucht.Between the push-button and the housing there is a coupling element (not visible in FIG. 1) for the frequency range switchover, which is made of plastic. The system of frequency range switching or band switching can be seen better from the exploded view in FIG. This coupling element 51 has a suspension ring 52 on the circumference, which interacts with an opposite slope on the outside of the push-button 12. Furthermore, the push-button at the end of the slope has an axially parallel toothing, the crosswise teeth 53 of which, when pressed, protrude into a corresponding inner profile of the coupling element 51 and act in the sense of a driver coupling. By pressing in the push button, the coupling element 51 is also pressed against the housing wall. On this two diametrically opposite, protruding warts 56 are formed, which then engage in incisions 57 in the coupling element 51 and cause a gradual detent according to the number of frequency ranges. In order to ensure better guidance of the push-button 12, the push-button 12 is guided along a sleeve 58 molded onto the housing and immersed in the push-button 12.

Damit die Spindel 48 bei der Drehung des Druckdrehknopfes sich mitdreht, besitzt der Druckdrehknopf angeformte Schnappzungen 59, die durch das Kupplungselement hindurch in einen Längsschnitt 60 der Spindel ragen und mit dem Gehäuse rastend zusammenwirken. Das Kupplungselement besitzt ferner einen angeformten Zeiger 14, der - je nach Raststellung - in einem der drei kreissegmentförmig angeordneten Anzeigefenster 15 der Sperrschiene 7 sichtbar ist. Seitlich angeformt ist an das Kupplungselement 51 ein Schwenkansatz 65, der in der Mitte einen durchgehenden Ausschnitt 66 aufweist. Durch diesen Ausschnitt ist eine federnde Schleife 69 einer drahtförmigen Kontaktfeder 68 gesteckt. Diese Kontaktfeder dient, wie noch ausgeführt wird, der Frequenzbereichsumschaltung bzw. Bandumschaltung. Wird das Kupplungselement in eine seiner Raststellungen gedreht, so wird auch diese Kontaktfeder 68 entsprechend um einen kleinen Winkelbereich geschwenkt.So that the spindle 48 also rotates when the pushbutton is rotated, the pushbutton has integrally formed snap tongues 59 which protrude through the coupling element into a longitudinal section 60 of the spindle and interact with the housing in a latching manner. The coupling element also has an integrally formed pointer 14 which, depending on the latching position, is visible in one of the three display windows 15 of the locking rail 7 arranged in the form of a segment of a circle. A swivel projection 65, which has a continuous cutout 66 in the middle, is integrally formed on the coupling element 51. A resilient loop 69 of a wire-shaped contact spring 68 is inserted through this cutout. As will be explained, this contact spring serves for frequency range switching or band switching. If the coupling element is rotated into one of its locking positions, this contact spring 68 is also pivoted accordingly by a small angular range.

Zwischen den Kupplungselementen und dem Gehäuse befinden sich noch zwei als zweite und dritte bezeichnete Sammelschienen 62 und 63 aus Metall, die beide durch ein Isolierzwischenstück 64 elektrisch voneinander getrennt sind. Auf der Innenseite des Gehäuses ist als Gegenstück eine erste Sammelschiene 61 ebenfalls aus Metall angeordnet. Diese Sammelschienen sind allen Drucktasten gemeinsam und ihre Anzahl entspricht der Zahl der vorwählbaren Frequenzbereiche bzw. Bänder. Jede dieser Sammelschienen weist entsprechend der Zahl der Drucktasten längliche Ausnehmungen 67 auf, an deren Rand an den Längsseiten Kontaktteile 70 paarweise gegenüberliegend abgebogen sind. Diese Kontaktteile dienen zum einen aus Halterung am Gehäuse, zum anderen als Gegenkontakt zu der federnden Schleife 69 der Kontaktfeder. Wie aus Figur 6 zu entnehmen ist, befinden sich diese Kontaktteile entweder am rechten Ende der Ausnehmung 67, in der Mitte oder am linken Ende, so dass insgesamt drei Schaltstellungen möglich sind. Die Führung der Sperrschiene 7 auf der Frontaussenseite des Gehäuses erfolgt derart, dass die Sperrschiene an ihrer Längsseite angeformte Rastnasen 21 aufweist, die mit gehäuseseitigen Rastaufnahmen 22 rastend zusammenwirken. Ausserdem ist die Sperrschiene auf der Unterseite mit einem von der Querseite in Verschieberichtung sich erstreckenden, angeformten Steg 23 versehen, der in einer Nut 24 des Gehäuses geführt ist. Da die Rastnasen in die Rastaufnahmen ragen und die Sperrschiene einen Verschiebehub ausführen muss, sind die Rastaufnahmen als sich in Verschieberichtung erstreckende Schlitze ausgeführt, deren Länge mindestens dem Verschiebehub entsprechen muss. Ebenfalls mindestens um den Verschiebehub vergrössert sind die Durchbrüche 25 in der Sperrschiene, durch die die Druckdrehknöpfe 12 und die Drucktasten 16 ragen.Between the coupling elements and the housing there are also two metal busbars 62 and 63, referred to as second and third, both of which are electrically separated from one another by an insulating intermediate piece 64. On the inside of the housing, a first busbar 61 made of metal is also arranged as a counterpart. These busbars are common to all push buttons and their number corresponds to the number of preselectable frequency ranges or bands. Each of these busbars has elongated recesses 67 corresponding to the number of pushbuttons, on the edge of which contact parts 70 are bent in pairs opposite one another on the longitudinal sides. These contact parts serve on the one hand as a holder on the housing and on the other hand as a counter contact to the resilient loop 69 of the contact spring. As can be seen from FIG. 6, these contact parts are located either at the right end of the recess 67, in the middle or at the left end, so that a total of three switching positions are possible. The locking rail 7 is guided on the front outside of the housing in such a way that the locking rail has locking lugs 21 formed on its long side, which cooperate with locking receptacles 22 on the housing. In addition, the locking rail is provided on the underside with an integrally formed web 23 which extends from the transverse side in the direction of displacement and is guided in a groove 24 in the housing. Since the locking lugs protrude into the locking receptacles and the locking rail has to perform a displacement stroke, the locking receptacles are designed as slots extending in the displacement direction, the length of which must correspond at least to the displacement stroke. The openings 25 in the locking rail, through which the push buttons 12 and the push buttons 16 protrude, are likewise enlarged at least by the displacement stroke.

An das Gehäuse sind seitlich an der Schmalseite je eine Befestigungslasche 26 angeformt, mit deren Hilfe das Drucktastenaggregat an dem Chassis eines Fernsehempfängers befestigt werden kann.On the side of the narrow side a mounting tab 26 is formed, with the help of which the push button assembly can be attached to the chassis of a television receiver.

Wie eingangs bereits erwähnt, können mit dem in Figur 1 dargestellten Drucktastenaggregat acht Kanäle gespeichert werden. Sind noch mehr Kanäle erwünscht, so können mehrere Drucktastenaggregate bausteinartig aneinandergereiht werden. Hierzu weist jede Baueinheit auf einer Gehäuseseite je vier Schnapphaken 27 auf, die in Figur 1 nicht dargestellten Öffnungen der Nachbarbaueinheit eingreifen. Ausserdem sind zur genauen Positionierung der Baueinheiten zueinander Arretierungsnasen vorhanden, die in Löcher28 der Nachbarbaueinheit eingepasst sind. Selbstverständlich sollen auch hier die Drucktasten gegenseitig auslösbar sein. Zu diesem Zweck besitzt jede Sperrschiene auf einer Längsseite einen seitlichen Mitnahmeausleger 29, der in eine entsprechend profilierte Ausnehmung der Nachbarsperrschiene eingreift und eine spielfreie Mitnahme gewährleistet.As already mentioned at the beginning, eight channels can be stored with the push button assembly shown in FIG. If even more channels are required, several pushbutton units can be lined up in a modular manner. For this purpose, each assembly has four snap hooks 27 on one side of the housing, which engage openings of the neighboring assembly, which are not shown in FIG. In addition, locking lugs are provided for exact positioning of the structural units relative to one another, which are fitted into holes 28 of the neighboring structural unit. Of course, the pushbuttons should also be mutually triggerable here. For this purpose, each locking rail has a lateral driving arm 29 on one long side, which engages in a correspondingly profiled recess in the neighboring locking rail and ensures play-free driving.

Die Drucktaste 16 besteht aus einem flachen Tastenschieber 4, dessen eines Ende in einer hinteren Längswand 11 des Schaltergehäuses in einer Führung geführt ist. Das andere Ende, das in einer vorderen Längswand geführt ist, trägt an seiner aus dem Gehäuse herausragenden Stirnseite einen Druckknopf 19, der im Pressitz auf den Tastenschieber aufgedrückt ist oder der direkt an den Tastenschieber einstückig angespritzt ist. Durch eine Haltenase 37 und durch einen in Figur 1 nicht sichtbaren Anschlag ist jeder Tastenschieber in dem Gehäuse gehaltert und in seiner Verschieberichtung begrenzt.The push button 16 consists of a flat key slide 4, one end of which is guided in a guide in a rear longitudinal wall 11 of the switch housing. The other end, which is guided in a front longitudinal wall, carries on its front end protruding from the housing a push button 19 which is press-fitted onto the key slide or which is integrally molded directly onto the key slide. Each key slide is held in the housing and limited in its direction of displacement by a retaining lug 37 and by a stop which is not visible in FIG. 1.

Das in Figur 1 dargestellte Drucktastenaggregat soll insbesondere in Fernsehempfängern eingesetzt werden. Hierzu ist es erforderlich, dass neben der Kanaleinschaltung noch die Frequenzbereichsumschaltung vorgenommen wird. Deshalb werden mit dem Tastenschieber zwei voneinander unabhängige Kontaktsysteme betätigt. Aus diesem Grund auch sind in nutförmigen Aussparungen B6 im Tastenschieber zwei Blattfedern 8 angeordnet. Jene Blattfeder 8 ist, wie aus Figur 4 und 5 zu entnehmen ist, J-förmig ausgebildet mit einem langen Federarm 30 und einem kurzen Federarm 31, wobei beide über ein bogenförmiges Zwischenstück 32 miteinander einstükkig verbunden sind. Diese Blattfeder ist zwischen zwei Widerlager eingespannt und zwar so, dass sie einseitig leicht gewölbt ist. Man erreicht dies unter anderem dadurch, indem man die beiden Widerlager nichtfluchtend zueinander anordnet. Durch die leichte Wölbung der Blattfeder nach einer Seite soll gewährleistet sein, dass, wenn die beiden Widerlager sich relativ zueinander bewegen, die Blattfeder sich immer nach dieser Seite weiter auswölbt.The push button assembly shown in Figure 1 gat is to be used in particular in television receivers. To do this, it is necessary that in addition to switching on the channel, the frequency range is switched over. That is why two independent contact systems are operated with the key slide. For this reason, two leaf springs 8 are arranged in groove-shaped recesses B6 in the key slide. That leaf spring 8 is, as can be seen from FIGS. 4 and 5, J-shaped with a long spring arm 30 and a short spring arm 31, both of which are connected in one piece via an arcuate intermediate piece 32. This leaf spring is clamped between two abutments in such a way that it is slightly curved on one side. One way to achieve this is to arrange the two abutments in a non-aligned manner. The slight curvature of the leaf spring to one side is intended to ensure that when the two abutments move relative to one another, the leaf spring always bulges further towards this side.

Die Blattfeder selbst kann zur Erniedrigung des Übergangswiderstandes ganz aus Silber oder aus einem preiswerten Material hergestellt sein, das zumindest an seiner kontaktierenden Oberfläche mit einer Silberschicht oder einer anderen gut leitenden Kontaktschicht versehen ist. Die Blattfeder erfüllt auch eine Doppelfunktion, da sie einerseits Kontaktfeder, andererseit aber auch Rückholfeder für die Drucktaste ist. Der lange Federarm übernimmt im wesentlichen die Funktion der Rückholfeder, während der kurze Federarm als Kontaktarm dient. Durch diese besondere J-förmige Ausgestaltung der Blattfeder ist die Drucktaste sehr leichtgängig. Da beim Drücken der Drucktaste hauptsächlich nur die Knickkraft des bereits vorgewölbten langen, relativ weichen Federarmes überwunden werden muss, zudem noch die Anpresskraft des kurzen Federarmes an das ortsfeste Kontaktstück hinzukommt, wobei diese Anpresskraft jedoch im Verhältnis der Abstände der Wirkungspunkte reduziert ist. Unterstützt wird die Presskraft noch durch die Abwinkelung des kurzen Federarmes, die etwa senkrecht zur Schieberichtung der Drucktaste steht.The leaf spring itself can be made entirely of silver or of an inexpensive material to lower the contact resistance, which is provided at least on its contacting surface with a silver layer or another highly conductive contact layer. The leaf spring also fulfills a double function, since on the one hand it is a contact spring and on the other hand it is also a return spring for the push button. The long spring arm essentially takes over the function of the return spring, while the short spring arm serves as a contact arm. Due to this special J-shaped design of the leaf spring, the push button is very easy to operate. Since only the buckling force of the already protruding long, relatively soft spring arm has to be overcome when the pushbutton is pressed, the pressing force of the short spring arm also has to be added to the stationary contact piece, but this pressing force is reduced in relation to the distances between the action points. The pressing force is supported by the angling of the short spring arm, which is approximately perpendicular to the push button's sliding direction.

Das erste Widerlager 33 befindet sich im Tastenschieber 4 an dem dem Druckknopf 19 näher liegenden Ende der Aussparung. Das zweite Widerlager wird durch ein V förmiges Schneidenlager 35 in einem ersten ortsfesten Kontaktstück 34 gebildet. Dieses Kontaktstück ist gleichzeitig ein Federelement, das aus Metall hergestellt ist. Mehrere Federelemente sind durch ein Verbindungsteil 41 miteinander verbunden und stellen eine erste Kontaktschiene 40 dar, deren Lötanschlussteil 42 seitlich aus dem Gehäuse herausgeführt ist. Wie aus Figur 6 zu entnehmen ist, ist diese erste Kontaktschiene 40 an der hinteren Längswand 11 des Gehäuses befestigt. Ebenfalls an dieser hinteren Längswand ist eine zweite Kontaktschiene 43 mit dem Lötanschlussteil 53 gehaltert, wobei die erste Kontaktschiene für die Durchschaltung der Frequenzbereichswahl verwendet wird. Beide Kontaktschienen sind mittels Schrauben 55 so an der Längswand befestigt, dass sie elektrisch voneinander durch eine Isolierplatte 54 isoliert sind. Ausserdem sind sie seitlich zueinander versetzt. Je ein Federelement der ersten und der zweiten Kontaktschiene bilden ein Paar und sie sind so angeordnet, dass sie mit den beiden Aussparungen in dem Tastenschalter fluchten. Da einerseits die paarweise zugehörigen Federelemente hintereinander liegen und andererseits die Blattfedern gleich gross sind, sind die Aussparungen im Tastenschieber unterschiedlich lang.The first abutment 33 is located in the key slide 4 at the end of the recess closer to the push button 19. The second abutment is formed by a V-shaped cutting edge bearing 35 in a first fixed contact piece 34. This contact piece is also a spring element, which is made of metal. A plurality of spring elements are connected to one another by a connecting part 41 and constitute a first contact rail 40, the soldered connection part 42 of which is led laterally out of the housing. As can be seen from Figure 6, this first contact rail 40 is attached to the rear longitudinal wall 11 of the housing. Also on this rear longitudinal wall, a second contact rail 43 is held with the solder connection part 53, the first contact rail being used for switching through the frequency range selection. Both contact rails are fastened to the longitudinal wall by means of screws 55 in such a way that they are electrically insulated from one another by an insulating plate 54. In addition, they are laterally offset from one another. One spring element each of the first and second contact rails form a pair and they are arranged such that they are aligned with the two cutouts in the key switch. Since on the one hand the spring elements belonging in pairs lie one behind the other and on the other hand the leaf springs are of the same size, the recesses in the key slide are of different lengths.

Ein Ende des langen Federarmes liegt in dem ersten Widerlager im Tastenschieber. Mit dem bogenförmigen Zwischenstück 32 liegt die Blattfeder 8 in dem V-förmigen Schneidenlager 35 des Federelementes 34 der Kontaktschiene 40. Der kurze Federarm 31 weist an seinem freien Ende eine gegen den langen Federarm 30 gerichtete Abwinkelung auf. Wie aus Figur 5 ersichtlich ist, drückt der lange Federarm über die Abwinkelung den kurzen Federarm gegen das zweite ortsfeste Kontaktstück 38. Hierdurch wird der Kontaktdruck wesentlich erhöht. Der erste Federarm dient somit sowohl als Rückstellfeder für den Tastenschieber als auch als Unterstützung des kurzen Federarmes, der in der Einschaltstellung eine elektrische Verbindung zwischen der Kontaktschiene und dem zweiten ortsfesten Kontaktstück herstellt.One end of the long spring arm lies in the first abutment in the key slide. With the arc-shaped intermediate piece 32, the leaf spring 8 lies in the V-shaped cutting edge bearing 35 of the spring element 34 of the contact rail 40. The short spring arm 31 has an angled portion directed against the long spring arm 30 at its free end. As can be seen from FIG. 5, the long spring arm presses the short spring arm against the second stationary contact piece 38 by means of the bend. This significantly increases the contact pressure. The first spring arm thus serves both as a return spring for the key slide and as a support for the short spring arm, which in the switched-on position establishes an electrical connection between the contact rail and the second stationary contact piece.

Entsprechend den geforderten Schaltfunktionen, nämlich Kanaleinschaltung und Frequenzbereichswahl, sind zwei Arten von zweiten ortsfesten Kontaktstücken vorhanden. Bei der Kanaleinschaltung besteht dies einstückig aus einem Metallteil mit einem oberen Teil, der mit dem kurzen Federarm 31 der Blattfeder zusammenwirkt, wie aus Figur 4 und 5 hervorgeht, und mit einem unteren als Kontaktstücke 72 wirkenden Teil, der zur Kontaktierung der Spindel 48 dient. Hierzu verläuft im unteren Teil in der Mitte von unten nach oben eine Öffnung 73, die die Spindel aufnehmen soll. In diese Öffnung ragen von beiden Seiten zwei Gabelarme herein, deren untere Enden 74 mit Rastnasen versehen sind, die in entsprechende Rastausnehmungen des Gehäuses einrasten, und dessen obere, nach innen weisende Federzungen 75 unter Vorspannung in einer Nut 76 der Spindel liegen.According to the required switching functions, namely channel switching and frequency range selection, two types of second fixed contact pieces are available. When switching on the duct, this consists in one piece of a metal part with an upper part which interacts with the short spring arm 31 of the leaf spring, as can be seen in FIGS. 4 and 5, and with a lower part which acts as contact pieces 72 and serves to contact the spindle 48. For this purpose, an opening 73, which is to receive the spindle, runs in the middle from bottom to top in the middle. Two fork arms protrude into this opening from both sides, the lower ends 74 of which are provided with latching lugs which snap into corresponding latching recesses in the housing, and the upper, inwardly pointing spring tongues 75 of which are pretensioned in a groove 76 of the spindle.

Das zweite ortsfeste Kontaktstück für die Frequenzbereichsumschaltung besteht aus einer endseitig abgewinkelten Schlaufe 71 der Kontaktfeder.The second stationary contact piece for the frequency range switchover consists of an angled loop 71 of the contact spring.

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1. Push button switch with a housing, with at least one push button slide plate (4) guided in the housing and actuable against spring force, with at least one J-shaped leaf spring (8) acting as a switch contact comprising a long spring arm (30) and a further short spring arm (31) connected to it via a curved intermediate piece (32), wherein the free end of the long spring arm (30) is supported in a first support (33) arranged in the push button slide plate (4), and the curved intermediate piece (32) is supported in a second support (35) on a first fixed contact piece (34) present in the housing, with arching of the leaf spring (8) to one side, and via the short spring arm (31) in the switch-on position an electrical connection is produced between the first fixed contact piece (34) and at least one fixed second contact piece (38, 71) arranged in the housing, characterised in that the leaf spring (8) - with its longitudinal axis lying parallel to the shift direction - is arranged in a groove-like recess (36) of the push button slide plate (4), wherein the long spring arm (30) is at the same time the return spring for the push button slide plate (4).
2. Switch according to claim 1, characterised in that the first support (33) and the second support (35) are not arranged in alignment.
3. Switch according to one of claims 1 or 2, characterised in that a plurality of push button switches are joined together to form a push button unit, in which the push button switches projecting from the housing and being mutually released by means of a locking bar (7), are used for switching-on storable, optionally adjustable, electrical values of channel stores comprising a plurality of voltage dividers for capacitance diode adjustment.
4. Switch according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterised in that at the free end of the short spring arm (31) there is a bend (39) directed towards the long spring arm (30), against which the long spring arm (30) presses at least in the switch-on position.
5. Switch according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterised in that the leaf spring is made of silver or is at least provided with a silver layer.
6. Switch according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterised in that the first support (3) arranged in the push button slide plate (4) is at the end of the groove-like recess (36) which lies towards the end of the push button slide plate (4) from which the slide plate is actuated, and in that the opposite end of the groove-like recess (36) is open.
7. Switch according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterised in that the second support (35) comprises a knife edge support constructed on the first fixed contact.
8. Switch according to claim 3 and 7, characterised in that the first fixed contact pieces (34) are constructed in a number corresponding to the number of push button switches on a contact bar (40, 43) which has soldered connection parts (42) produced from the housing.
9. Switch according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterised in that in an arrangement of two leaf springs (8) in push button slide plate (4), the groove-like recesses (36) are proveded next to one another on the same side of the push button slide plate (4) and are of such different lengths that the two leaf springs seen in the longitudinal direction lie somewhat staggered with respect to one another.
10. Switch according to claim 9, characterised in that there are two contact bars (40, 43) according to claim 8 which are secured in the housing (1) electrically insulated from one another, whereby respectively a fixed contact piece (34) of the first contact bar (40) and a fixed contact piece (34) of the second contact bar (43) form a pair and thus are staggered laterally with respect to one another in such a way that that the two contact pieces are in alignment with the two recesses (36) in the associated push button slide plate.
11. Switch according to claim 9 or 10, characterised in that in the switch-on position the more deformed leaf spring (8) projects from the groove-like recess (36) with the central part of its outward arch.
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