Patents Assigned to Cherry Electrical Products Corp.
  • Low cost electrical switch
    Patent number: 4343973
    Abstract: An improved low cost electrical switch has a two-piece housing comprising a base and an escutcheon. The escutcheon includes a frame and a face plate which is flexible, resilient and insulative. Application of downward finger pressure on the face plate causes the face plate to deform, thereby urging a snap action dome into a shorting position across a pair of electrical contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1982
    Assignee: Cherry Electrical Products Corp.
    Inventor: Robert T. Main
  • Switch blade with wiping contact action
    Patent number: 4277662
    Abstract: A panel mounted switch consisting of two complementary side sections housing the switch components that include a plunger-type actuator carrying two movable switch blades and a series of fixed terminals. The switch blades being yieldably connected to the actuator whereby they are free to rock about their longitudinal axis upon engagement with certain of said fixed terminals, thereby achieving a self-cleaning, wiping switching contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1981
    Assignee: Cherry Electrical Products Corp.
    Inventor: Raymond Lewandowski
  • Motor control and reversing circuit
    Patent number: 4246520
    Abstract: A motor energizing control and reversing circuit designed to be used on a power seat control in vehicles. The circuit includes a reversible motor that primarily drives suitable gear trains which effect seat movement in a plurality of directions and then momentarily reverses the motor so as to apply moving power to the gear train in an opposite direction to relieve pressure thereon and prevent a locked rotor condition in which the seat could not be moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1981
    Assignee: Cherry Electrical Products Corp.
    Inventor: John T. Giles, III
  • Seal assembly for switch actuator
    Patent number: 4230922
    Abstract: A boot seal assembly for external movable members such as switch actuators. The assembly includes a cooperating structural support that provides a guide for the movable member as well as a retaining seat for a fixed portion of the boot seal. The movable member provides a retaining means for the remaining collapsible portion of the boot seal without affecting the direction of travel or required operating force for the movable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1980
    Assignee: Cherry Electrical Products Corp.
    Inventor: John W. Habecker
  • Push button switch
    Patent number: 4112278
    Abstract: A push-button rotary switch having a switching mechanism including a pair of independent actuators having linear movement into contact with the teeth of a switch position selector ratchet wheel mounted at the center of a rotatable switch-positioning indicator, with the actuators adapted to alternately engage certain of the ratchet teeth so as to rotate the switch-positioning indicator step by step in either direction into different switching positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1978
    Assignee: Cherry Electrical Products Corp.
    Inventors: Gunter Greiner, Gunter Murmann