Patents Assigned to Nihon Kaiheiki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 4406936
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mounting frame equipped with a decorative plate, for mounting a switch or the like. The mounting frame includes a decorative plate having a through-hole formed thereon so as to mate with a sleeve which is step-wise formed at the upper portion of a switch, a pilot lamp or the like, and leg portions vertically suspended from the lower end portions on both sides of the decorative plate. When the sleeve is fitted into the through-hole while the inner side surfaces of the leg portions or a bridge interconnecting the lower portions of both leg portions are anchored to the corresponding outer side surfaces of the switch, the pilot lamp or the like, the switch, the pilot lamp or the like can be mounted to, and dismounted from, the mounting frame in one-touch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1983
    Assignee: Nihon Kaiheiki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeo Ohashi
  • Patent number: 4371767
    Abstract: Herein disclosed is a small-sized switch of the type, in which a clip-shaped moving contact made coactive with a knob is selectively and simultaneously brought, by operating the knob, into sliding contact with both the outer sides of at least two of a plurality of fixed contacts arranged in the bottom of a switch body, thus effecting the switch changing operations. The small-sized switch has its plural fixed contacts made of a round wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1983
    Assignee: Nihon Kaiheiki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeo Ohashi, Hiroyuki Suga
  • Patent number: 4321442
    Abstract: An improved small-sized rocker switch with indicator is provided. The switch is constituted by a housing having at least one open end; a main contact disposed in the housing; a cover member attached to the open end of the housing; a movable lever disposed in the housing such that its one end is located in the housing while the other end is projected outwardly from the cover member; a converter provided at one end of the movable lever and adapted for opening and closing the main contact; a switch actuator mounted tiltably on the cover member and having an internal cavity, the switch actuator further having a window through which the internal cavity is observable and a bridge member disposed in the internal cavity and connected to the other end of the movable lever; and a substantially U-shaped plate-like indicate member mounted in the internal cavity of the switch actuator so as to saddle over the bridge member, the indicator member having free ends mounted on the cover member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1982
    Assignee: Nihon Kaiheiki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukihisa Tanaka, Shigeo Ohashi
  • Patent number: 4281232
    Abstract: The improved small switch of this invention comprises: a housing having at least one open end; main contact contained in the housing and having at least one first movable contact element and at least one first fixed contact element; a cover member mounted on the open end of the housing; a movable operating handle whose one end is disposed within the housing and the other end extends through and projects from the cover member; an illuminator disposed at one end of the movable operating handle; a converter member disposed at the other end of the movable operating handle for making or breaking the main contact; second movable contact elements fitted to the converter member; lead wires disposed within the interior space of the movable operating handle and connecting the second movable contact elements and the illuminator; and second fixed contact elements disposed within the housing, with which the second movable contact elements are brought into contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1981
    Assignee: Nihon Kaiheiki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Hirai, Yukihisa Tanaka, Shigeo Ohashi