US3752945A - Electrical alternating contact switch - Google Patents

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US3752945A
US3752945A US00262622A US3752945DA US3752945A US 3752945 A US3752945 A US 3752945A US 00262622 A US00262622 A US 00262622A US 3752945D A US3752945D A US 3752945DA US 3752945 A US3752945 A US 3752945A
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H35/00—Switches operated by change of a physical condition
    • H01H35/02—Switches operated by change of position, inclination or orientation of the switch itself in relation to gravitational field
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • ABSTRACT [30] Foreign Application Priority Data An electrical alternating contact switch is designed to June 4, l97l Germany P 21 27 900.5
  • a ring 1 of electrically conductive material has a hol- This invention relates to an electrical alternating conlow interior defined by a set of flared sections 2. These tact switch of the kind in which switching impulses are produced in response to a change in position of the switch.
  • switches which are also known as positionsensitive switches, are used in many branches of industry.
  • a switch of this nature known in the aircraft industry comprises a rocker which is rigidly connected to the aircraft and has a mercury slug moving therein to provide a liquid contact for producing switching impulses.
  • a further field of use is, for example, the toy industry, where a spherical body equipped with a battery has a switch of this nature which switches a flashing light on and off; the flashing light is illuminated and extinguished in a rapid rhythmic pattern by a movement of the spherical body.
  • the switch comprises an electrically conductive ring or the like with a shaped inner rolling surface for an electrically conductive rolling body, and a cover plate or the like which provides a partially conductive and partially non-conductive rolling surface for said rolling body.
  • the ring form referred to above obviously applies only to the interior of the body with the rolling surface, whilst the outer margin of the body can have any desired form. Deviations from the inner ring form are possible and an oval or arched rolling surface can also be used to suit particular uses.
  • the rolling body is preferably a ball.
  • the cover plate may be flat and be provided with electrically conductive strips or the like arranged in star fashion.
  • the ring may have symmetrically arranged flared sections.
  • a symmetrical arrangement of this kind is obviously only required when a rhythmical switching on and off is required in response to rotation of the switch.
  • the flared sections are inclined towards the cover plate. They may individually be flat or convexly curved.
  • the cover plate may itself be conical or a slightly rounded form is suitable.
  • the rolling body is cylindrical.
  • This cylindrical body may have an annular race in the interior ofthe ring, this race serving to guide the rolling body and preventing its escape from the shaped rolling surface.
  • FIG. I is a section through the switch on the line 1 I of FIG. 2,
  • FIG. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of FIG. I, and
  • FIG. 3 is a side perspective view of the switch shown exploded.
  • rim of ring I is circular, but it may have any other useful form, for example square, the shape depending primarily on the form of the device in which the selector switch is to be installed or used.
  • the cover plate 3, illustrated in FIG. 3, is made for example of an electrically non-conductive material. and has electrically conductive strips 10 applied in convenient fashion in star form to one face thereof. These strips 10 are so arranged that, when the ring 1 and the cover plate 3 are assembled together, each of the strips substantially coincide with a medial line of a flared section 2.
  • a ball 4 made of a conductive material provides the electrical contact means. When, for example, it rolls over the flared section 6 it provides electrical contact with the corresponding contact strips I0 on the cover plate 3.
  • the ball can be freed from the cover plate 3 or from ring 1 by including the ring, i.e., the selector switch, to the axis 11.
  • the incline 12 of the pyramidal shaping of the flared sections is chosen so that the switch, as can be seen from FIG. 3, can be rocked to and fro through 30 relatively to axis 11 without this oscillation affecting the efficacy of the switch. That is to say the contacts are rhythmically made when the switch is rotated, independently of whether the switch goes beyond this angular amount when it is being rocked.
  • the ball 4 When the switch is rotated, for example in the direction of arrow 5, and independently of an inclination of the switch up to 30, the ball 4 is first held in the corner or bight of the pyramidal flared sections 2 and no contact is made between the conductive ring I and the electrically conductive strips I0 on the cover plate. As the rotary angle increases the ball reaches an equilibrium position and finally begins to roll. It rolls down approximately to the central area of a flared section and there makes the required contact; if the rotation is continued there is an interval of no-contact, a contact making, and so on in sequence.
  • the ring 1 may be of greater thickness than that illustrated, and the inclination 12 of the eight-point notional pyramid can be varied. The number of side faces of this pyramid can also be varied.
  • a rolling body of cylindrical shape may, for example, be used in place of a ball 4.
  • the cover plate 3 may, inter alia, readily be made of conical shape; it can even be of shell form. Point contacts can be used instead of contact strips 10.
  • the alternating contact switch can be made as a closed body. It could also have an internal ring or some other internal solid body to predetermine the path of the ball as in the case of a ball race.
  • An improved electrical alternating contact switch in which switching impulses are produced in response to positional variation thereof comprising an electrically conductive ring which defines a shaped inner rolling surface, a cover plate mounted on said ring and providing a second rolling surface which is partially electrically conductive and partially non-conductive, and a rolling body of electrically conductive material movable over said inner rolling surface and between the latter and said second rolling surface, said ring being made up internally of symmetrically arranged flared sections.

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US4425488A (en) 1982-06-04 1984-01-10 Moskin Jeffrey M Pistol grip controller
US4628160A (en) * 1985-10-28 1986-12-09 Allied Corporation Electrical tilt switch
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US4766275A (en) * 1987-02-06 1988-08-23 Coleco Industries, Inc. Doll or the like with motion sensing switch and switch therefor
US4884067A (en) * 1987-08-13 1989-11-28 Talkie Tooter (Canada) Ltd. Motion and position sensing alarm
US5153566A (en) * 1991-03-15 1992-10-06 Unitoys Company Limited Motion sensor switch and annunciator device
US5252795A (en) * 1992-04-30 1993-10-12 Shin Jiuh Corp. Tilt switch
US5281858A (en) * 1992-06-05 1994-01-25 Arthur Langved Fluid level activated float switch
US20030006959A1 (en) * 2001-07-09 2003-01-09 Marcelo Varanda Method of operating a handheld device for directional input
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US4189726A (en) * 1977-10-27 1980-02-19 Miller Richard L Automatic orientation circuit indicator device for portable power tools and the like
US4425488A (en) 1982-06-04 1984-01-10 Moskin Jeffrey M Pistol grip controller
US4628160A (en) * 1985-10-28 1986-12-09 Allied Corporation Electrical tilt switch
US4751353A (en) * 1987-02-06 1988-06-14 Coleco Industries, Inc. Doll or the like with position and motion sensing switch
US4766275A (en) * 1987-02-06 1988-08-23 Coleco Industries, Inc. Doll or the like with motion sensing switch and switch therefor
US4884067A (en) * 1987-08-13 1989-11-28 Talkie Tooter (Canada) Ltd. Motion and position sensing alarm
US5153566A (en) * 1991-03-15 1992-10-06 Unitoys Company Limited Motion sensor switch and annunciator device
US5252795A (en) * 1992-04-30 1993-10-12 Shin Jiuh Corp. Tilt switch
US5281858A (en) * 1992-06-05 1994-01-25 Arthur Langved Fluid level activated float switch
US20030006959A1 (en) * 2001-07-09 2003-01-09 Marcelo Varanda Method of operating a handheld device for directional input
US20050104853A1 (en) * 2003-11-13 2005-05-19 Chatree Sitalasai Mechanical motion sensor and low-power trigger circuit
US8199110B1 (en) * 2003-12-19 2012-06-12 Cypress Semiconductor Corporation Method and apparatus for detecting movements in an electronic device
US7519468B2 (en) 2005-02-28 2009-04-14 Research In Motion Limited System and method for navigating a mobile device user interface with a directional sensing device
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US20060195252A1 (en) * 2005-02-28 2006-08-31 Kevin Orr System and method for navigating a mobile device user interface with a directional sensing device
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