Patents Examined by Lheiren Mae A Caroc
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Patent number: 12293887Abstract: The present application concerns a circuit breaker including a movable contact, a driving rod slidably mounted in the circuit breaker, a linkage mechanism for driving the movable contact, a pivoted driving fork rotatably mounted in the circuit breaker which cooperates with the driving rod through the cooperation of a primary pin provided on the driving rod and a primary slot provided on the driving fork, a driven lever connecting the driving fork to the movable contact, and wherein the driving rod supports a secondary pin which cooperates with a secondary slot of the driving fork when the driving rod in a position between a predetermined position and an extreme opened position of the circuit breaker.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: GE INFRASCRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLGInventors: David Berard, Quentin Dominique Louis Rognard, Jérôme Laurent, Serge Bachelard
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Patent number: 12288651Abstract: A key structure is applicable to an electronic device having a housing. The key structure includes a seat, a switch, a button, and an elastic sheet. The seat is disposed in the housing and has a first through hole. The switch is disposed on the seat. A key pillar of the button passes through the first through hole to abut against the switch. The elastic sheet includes a body, and a plurality of first elastic arms, second elastic arms and third elastic arms. The first elastic arms extending from the body are abutting against the housing. The second elastic arms extending from an inner edge of the second through hole are engaged with the key pillar. The third elastic arms abutting against the keycap are configured to support the button and provide a restoring force that can restore the button from a pressed position to an initial position.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATIONInventors: Ta-Yung Hsu, Chun-Cheng Chang
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Patent number: 12283443Abstract: A switch device includes an operation knob on which a sliding operation can be performed in a horizontal direction, a holder member that holds the operation knob and moves in the horizontal direction, a drive member that tilts as the holder member moves in the horizontal direction, a switch that is pressed down by the drive member as the drive member tilts, and a support member that supports the holder member such that the holder member can move in the horizontal direction. The holder member has a base at a center in the horizontal direction and a flange extending outward from the base in the horizontal direction. The support member has an upper wall that restricts a movement of the holder member in a vertical direction by contacting an upper surface of the flange, and a slit between the upper wall and a middle wall lower than the upper wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.Inventor: Darang Ryu
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Patent number: 12278072Abstract: A circuit breaker that includes a circuit breaker housing, a button mechanism arranged inside the circuit breaker housing, an operating mechanism connected with the button mechanism, a movable contact connected with the operating mechanism, a static contact co-operated with the movable contact, the button mechanism being operable to enable the circuit breaker to switch on/switch off by means of the operating mechanism; the circuit breaker also includes an electric mechanism arranged inside the circuit breaker housing, the electric mechanism is drivingly co-operated with the button mechanism or the operating mechanism, the electric mechanism can actuate the circuit breaker to switch on/switch off by means of the operating mechanism, or the electric mechanism can actuate the circuit breaker to switch on/switch off by means of the cooperation of the button mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: ZHEJIANG CHINT ELECTRICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kejun Lu, An Yang
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Patent number: 12266485Abstract: A switch device includes: a printed circuit board; a rubber sheet configured to cover the printed circuit board; an operating knob; an operating mechanism; an operating mechanism plate; and a housing having a side surface provided with an insertion hole, and a bottom surface provided with a discharge hole for discharging liquid entering an inside of the housing; and a back cover that is fitted from a back side of the housing and sandwiches an entire periphery of the rubber sheet with a stepped portion formed inside the housing. The printed circuit board is stored in a space between the back cover and the rubber sheet. The discharge hole is located in a lower portion of a space between an inner surface of the housing and the rubber sheet. A bottom portion exists between the discharge hole and the rubber sheet.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: NIDEC MOBILITY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi Fujii, Takanori Okaniwa, Hidekazu Imai
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Patent number: 12261003Abstract: Provided is an excitation protection device acting step by step with a single excitation source, including a shell body, an excitation source, impact devices and a conductor, wherein at least two impact devices respectively located in different cavities are provided in the shell body, one side of the impact device is provided with one excitation source, and the impact device and the excitation source are respectively in sealed contact with the cavities where the impact device and the excitation source are located; and the excitation source drives the impact devices to displace simultaneously or successively, and at least one of the impact devices breaks the conductor during the displacement process.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: XI' AN SINOFUSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaoguang Shi, Shaobo Duan, Xin Wang, Xibin Ge
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Patent number: 12255029Abstract: A rotor rotator and rotor system for a multi-pole electrical rotary battery switch having a rotor with a top surface and a bottom surface and a key insert opening on the top surface. One or two bus plate connectors are held in chambers on the bottom surface of the rotor. A rotor rotator has a servo motor with a motor gear in the rotor rotator, a switch nob connector at a top end of the rotor rotator, and a rotor key shaft at a bottom end of the rotor rotator which inserts into the key insert opening of the rotor. A programmable printed circuit board with a processor and memory are positioned around the rotor rotator and provide electrical current to the servo motor. Electrical connector poles provide electrical current to the printed circuit board by means of electrical conducting springs. The switch operates both automatically and manually.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Inventor: David Worsham
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Patent number: 12255030Abstract: A keyswitch assembly is provided. The keyswitch assembly includes a base plate, at least one pressing mechanism disposed on the base plate, a plurality of elastic members disposed on the base plate, and a keycap covering the at least one pressing mechanism and the plurality of elastic members. In the embodiments, a plurality of elastic members is disposed at equal intervals to support the keycap. By way of such configuration, the user experiences the same or similar hand feeling when pressing any point of the keycap. There is no difference in the pressing feel due for pressing the middle or two ends of the keycap. Meanwhile, the problem of the poor electrical conduction resulted from the deformation of the keycap may be avoided.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignees: LITE-ON Technology (Chang Zhou) Co., LTD., LITE-ON Technology CorporationInventors: BingWei Zhang, XiaoQiang Liang, Jia-Xun Wu, Lei Shi
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Patent number: 12255031Abstract: A switching device for an on-board electrical system of an electrically driven motor vehicle includes an electromechanical switch which is designed to connect and interrupt a supply line of the on-board electrical system. The electromechanical switch has: a stationary first switching contact, a movable second switching contact, and an actuation unit which has a mechanical force-transmitting element and a drive element. In order to switch from an open switching state to a closed switching state of the electromechanical switch, the drive element moves the transmitting element along a movement path, and the force-transmitting element moved along the movement path acts mechanically on the second switching contact and moves the second switching contact toward the first switching contact.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Florian Pritscher, Ingo Scherer
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Patent number: 12243699Abstract: A high-voltage switch is disclosed. The switch includes a substrate, a first contact fixedly coupled to the substrate, a second contact having a first position in conductive contact with the first contact and a second position not in conductive contact with the first contact; and an actuator comprising a body fixedly coupled to the substrate and a movable element coupled to the second contact. The actuator is configured to selectably move the second contact between its first and second positions. The switch has a breakdown voltage greater than or equal to 500V and does not include an arc suppression element.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Inventor: Jeffrey Ross Gray
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Patent number: 12237120Abstract: A disabler cover plate includes a generally flat longitudinal surface, an upper hook extending approximately 90° from a top of an underside of the flat longitudinal surface, a lower hook extending approximately 90° from a bottom of the underside of the flat longitudinal surface, and a bump out on the underside of the flat longitudinal surface, the bump out positioned to depress and maintain pressure on a button on a face of a PBS-3 fixture.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Inventor: Nicholas P. Vona
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Patent number: 12237121Abstract: A waterproof button structure includes a button main body, a shell and a shaft sleeve, wherein a button mounting slot is reserved on the shell; a vertical column is arranged in the button mounting slot; the vertical column is provided with a through hole longitudinally penetrating through the vertical column; the button main body includes a pressing portion and a shaft portion; a bottom surface of the pressing portion is provided with a first annular groove; a second annular groove is formed between the vertical column and an inner wall of the button mounting slot.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: Fasikl Incorporated, Hangzhou Fasikl Technology Co.,LtdInventors: Bing Ye, Baitong Wang
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Patent number: 12230466Abstract: An earthing switch includes a fixed contact part fixed in an enclosure, a movable contact part disposed to face the fixed contact part, having a hollow portion formed therein, and having one end portion connected to a driving device and driven by the driving device so that the other end portion thereof is connected to or separated from the fixed contact part, and a piston part located in the hollow portion and moving relative to the movable contact part, wherein the hollow portion extends in a longitudinal direction of the movable contact part, both end portions of the hollow portion in the longitudinal direction are formed to be open, and the piston part includes a gas flow path formed therein.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Hyundai Electric & Energy Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keon Woo Kim, Ji Hoon Kim, Seung Hwan Baik
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Patent number: 12232251Abstract: A backlight module of an illuminated keyboard device includes a circuit board and a plurality of light-emitting elements. The circuit board has a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to the top surface. The top surface has a plurality of key assembling regions. Each of the key assembling regions has a stress release hole defined through the top surface and the bottom surface. The light-emitting elements are respectively disposed on the key assembling regions. Each of the light-emitting elements includes a main body and a conductive portion connected to the main body. The conductive portion is electrically connected to the circuit board, and the stress release hole is adjacent to the conductive portion of each of the light-emitting elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Chia-Hsin Chen
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Patent number: 12226869Abstract: A switch housing body has a base and a sidewall having an axis and extending from the base to a rim and having a pair of axial slots. A switch cap has: a cap body having a top web; and a sidewall extending from the top web to a rim and having a pair of holes. A shaft passes through the pair of axial slots and pair of holes. A spring biases the cap axially away from the housing from a compressed condition to an extended condition. A cap electrical contact and a housing electrical contact have an electrically closed condition at the compressed condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: RTX CorporationInventor: Christopher R. King
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Patent number: 12224133Abstract: An apparatus for providing a switch mechanism comprises a housing and a pressure sensitive device mounted to the housing. An actuator is moveably connected to the housing to enable the actuator to move along an axis towards and away from the pressure sensitive device. A resilient member has a first end connected to the actuator and a second end connected to the pressure sensitive device.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Peratech IP LtdInventors: Zhang Chuanyang, Xu Feng, Zhang Heng, Li Zefeng
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Patent number: 12205778Abstract: A trigger switch according to one or more embodiments may include a pressure sensor such as a pressure sensitive element that detects a depressed amount of a trigger in response to a depressing operation on the trigger. A trigger switch may include a trigger movable in response to a depressing operation, an urging member including a first end in contact with the trigger and a second end and urging the trigger in a direction opposite to a depressing direction in which the trigger is depressed, an elastic member in contact with the second end of the urging member, and a pressure sensor in contact with the elastic member to detect pressure applied from the elastic member.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takumi Fujihara, Koichi Furusawa, Taiki Koyama
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Patent number: 12197241Abstract: A joystick sensor includes a housing, a reset assembly, a rocker assembly, a circuit assembly, the reset assembly, the rocker assembly and the circuit assembly are mounted on the housing; the rocker assembly includes two magnets, an upper rocker arm, a lower rocker arm, and a rocker body, one end of the upper rocker connected with one of the two magnets; one end of the rocker arm is connected with the other one of the two magnets, the other end of the lower rocker arm is secured a pressing block; the circuit assembly includes a flexible circuit board, two Hall IC elements, and a switch spring, the two Hall IC elements and the switch spring are arranged on the flexible circuit board, positions of the Hall IC elements respective correspond to positions of the magnets; a position of the switch spring corresponds to a position of the pressing block.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: GUANGDONG K-SILVER INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiao Zeng, Jianbo Zhao
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Patent number: 12198874Abstract: A magnetic keycap assembly adapted for use on a mechanical keyboard. The magnetic keycap assembly includes a keycap removably attached to a keybase using a diverse combination of attachments including magnets, and a press-fit configuration for securely retaining the keycap to the keybase when subjected to actuation forces during use. The magnetic keycap assembly comprises a variety of different key profiles including a spacebar, and is customized with interchangeable keycaps to enhance the aesthetic appeal, and/or ergonomic use of mechanical keyboards.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Crespo Computing Creations Holding CorporationInventor: Julian Manuel Crespo
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Patent number: 12198877Abstract: A backlight module configured to illuminate at least one key cap of a lighting keyboard. The backlight module includes a lighting board, a light emitting unit and a light guide plate. The lighting board has a first reflective layer, a lighting circuit and two aligned micro-structure regions, all three at least partially being layered in parallel with each other. The two micro-structure regions reflect lights and are separated by the lighting circuit. The light emitting unit includes plural color dies connecting electrically with the lighting circuit. The light guide plate has a light guide hole for accommodating the light emitting unit. The color dies of the light emitting unit are aligned linearly, while the two micro-structure regions of the lighting board are aligned in perpendicular to the linearly-aligned color dies, with the micro-structure regions disposed at opposite sides the light emitting unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Heng-Yi Huang, Hsin-Cheng Ho