Patents Assigned to Merit-Malta Ltd.
  • Patent number: 6124556
    Abstract: An electrical switch has a switch housing, a plurality of pin-like contact parts arranged in the switch housing substantially parallel to one another and extending in a substantially same direction, different potentials to which the contact points are connectable in groups, a contact disk provided for each potential and carrying a corresponding one of the contact parts, the contact disks having substantial identical dimensions and being stacked over one another, a plurality of intermediate layers composed of insulating material and separating the contact disks from one another, the contact parts being bent from the contact disks all in a same direction, and at a location at which one of the contact disks has one contact part, the contact part of the other contact disks are separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Merit-Malta Ltd.
    Inventor: Robert Thalhammer
  • Patent number: 6040535
    Abstract: A starter switch formed as an ignition starter switch for a motor vehicle has a rotor, a coupling for receiving a rotatable drive pin of a lock cylinder of a steering lock of the motor vehicle, a unit for releasable mounting of the starter switch on a steering lock housing, guiding a unit for displaceably supporting the starter switch on the steering lock housing transversely to an axial direction of the lock cylinder, and a coupling in which the drive pin is insertable after insertion of the starter switch into the steering lock housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Merit-Malta Ltd.
    Inventor: Robert Thalhammer