Switch Making Patents (Class 29/622)
  • Patent number: 7914690
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a metallic keypad panel having a ripple luster. First, a metallic thin plate is prepared. The metallic thin plate is subjected to an etching process, thereby forming a plurality of hollowed portions on the metallic thin plate. The hollowed portions are used to define a pressing region for the keypad and icons for the surface of the pressing region. The metallic thin plate is cut to form a metallic keypad panel having a predetermined shape. An electroplated layer is coated on the surface of the metallic keypad panel. Then, a layer of protective film is adhered on one side surface of the metallic keypad panel. The metallic keypad panel is disposed into a transparent mold. After an ultraviolet curable resin is injected into the mold, a light source illuminates the transparent mold to cure the ultraviolet curable resin in the mold to form a pattern layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Ichia Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Che-Tung Wu, Chih-Ho Hsu, Kai-Jie Taso
  • Publication number: 20110067985
    Abstract: Method of fabricating an electro-mechanical microsystem provided with at least one fixed part comprising a bar, and at least one mobile part in rotation around at least one portion of said bar, the method comprising the steps of: a) formation, inside a layer of at least one given material resting on a support, of at least one bar, b) formation around the bar of at least one first graphene sheet, and of a least one second graphene sheet, separated from the first sheet and mobile with respect to the first sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE. ALT.
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe GABRIEL, Philippe Andreucci, Thomas Ernst, Thierry Poiroux
  • Publication number: 20110067983
    Abstract: Provided is a device, such as a switch structure, that includes a contact and a conductive element that is configured to be deformable between a first position in which the conductive element is separated from the contact and a second position in which the conductive element contacts the contact. The conductive element can be formed substantially of metallic material configured to inhibit time-dependent deformation. For example, the metallic material may be configured to exhibit a maximum steady-state plastic strain rate of less than 10?12 s?1 when subject to a stress of at least about 25 percent of a yield strength of the metallic material and a temperature less than or equal to about half of a melting temperature of the metallic material. The contact and the conductive element may be part of a microelectromechanical device or a nanoelectromechanical device. Associated methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Christopher Fred Keimel, Marco Francesco Aimi, Shubhra Bansal, Reed Roeder Corderman, Kuna Venkat Satya Rama Kishore, Eddula Sudhakar Reddy, Atanu Saha, Kanakasabapathi Subramanian, Parag Thakre, Alex David Corwin
  • Publication number: 20110056817
    Abstract: A key module includes a circuit board including a first conductive portion, a spacer sheet, a membrane circuit board, an elastic assembly, and a keycap. The spacer sheet is fixed on the circuit board, and defines a through hole. The membrane circuit board is fixed on the spacer sheet, and includes a second conductive portion. The elastic assembly is fixed on the membrane circuit board. The keycap is resiliently supported by the elastic assembly, and includes a body and an oxide film attached on the body. The body is made of a first type of metal. The oxide film is made of a second type of metal and for protecting the body. When the keycap is pressed, the elastic assembly deforms, the second conductive portion passes through the through hole to electrically connect with the first conductive portion, so as to form a closed circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: KUO-HSIANG WU
  • Publication number: 20110050625
    Abstract: A touch screen panel includes first and second sense cells on a same layer and coupling patterns that couple adjacent ones of the first sense cells and adjacent ones of the second sense cells to each other, respectively. The coupling patterns do not cross with each other, thereby improving the ability of the coupling patterns to withstand static electricity. A dummy line formed of a same material as the sense cells may be formed between the first and second sense cells, and the dummy line is electrically coupled to a guard ring located in an area outside of a display area of the touch screen panel, making it possible to overcome the effects of static electricity applied to the front surface of the touch screen panel as well as the side surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Do-Youb Kim, Won-Kyu Kwak, Brent Jang
  • Publication number: 20110050385
    Abstract: A temperature-dependent switch 10 has, on the outside on its housing, a first and at least a second connecting surface 22, 23 for directly connecting feed lines and, in the housing, a temperature-dependent switching mechanism, which depending on its temperature produces or opens an electrically conducting connection between the two connecting surfaces 22, 23. The feed lines are directly connected, at their inner ends 27, 28, to the connecting surfaces 22, 23, the switch 10 being encased by an insulating protective layer 32, and the feed lines, at their free ends 29, 31 which are remote from the inner ends 27, 28, are free of the protective layer 32. The feed lines are in the form of connecting lugs 25, 26, which are connected in material-connecting engagement, at their inner ends 27, 28, to the connecting surfaces 22, 23 and, at their free ends 29, 31, are directly forms as plug-type connections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventor: Marcel P. HOFSAESS
  • Publication number: 20110041323
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing a direct current (DC) uninterruptible power supply (UPS) configured as an intrinsic power transfer switch are provided. One method includes providing multiple inputs, multiple rectifiers coupled to the inputs, a common node coupled to the rectifiers, and at least one DC output coupled to the common node. The DC output(s) is/are adapted for connection to at least one electrical load and a first input is adapted for connection to a first electrical service. A second input is adapted for connection to a second electrical service, the DC UPS continuing to supply power to the at least one electrical load in the event of a loss of either the first or second electrical services. Also provided are methods of manufacturing an intrinsic power transfer switch for a high-power electrical load requiring at least two electrical service inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven Mark GROFF, Trung LE
  • Patent number: 7872212
    Abstract: An integrated circuit is joined to a liquid container. The integrated circuit includes a passivation layer. A resistor is used as a heater to heat fluid in a liquid container. A mesa structure is formed over the passivation layer. The mesa structure is in contact with the resistor and is used to more effectively deliver heat from the resistor to the liquid container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Avago Technologies Fiber IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Tyler Sims
  • Publication number: 20110006873
    Abstract: A cap (27) for a temperature-dependent switch (10) having a first connection area (22) and at least one second connection area (23) on the outer surface of its housing (11, 12) for the purpose of electrically connecting leads (25, 26) is designed as a cup-like surrounding housing that can be pushed onto the switch (10), preferably with an accurate fit, such that the connection areas (22, 23) for electrical connection are accessible from the outside after said surrounding housing has been pushed on, whereby a first opening (28) for the first connection area (22) and a second opening (29) for the second connection area (23) are provided in said cap (27).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventor: Marcel P. HOFSAESS
  • Patent number: 7866031
    Abstract: A seal is provided around a vacuum interrupter and an air-filled cavity, and a tube is provided within the seal. The tube has a first end open to the air-filled cavity and a second end open to an exterior of the seal. The seal, the vacuum interrupter, and the air-filled cavity are encapsulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Paul N. Stoving, E. Fred Bestel
  • Patent number: 7866032
    Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a metal keypad panel with a micropore array, a metal laminate is prepared and etched to form micropores on the metal laminate, and a filling is coated on a surface of the metal laminate and permeated into the micropores. After the metal laminate is punched to form a metal keypad panel in a predetermined shape, the metal keypad panel is put into a mold. After a plastic material is injected into the mold, a pattern layer is formed on a side of the metal keypad panel, and then a backlight module is attached onto another side of the metal keypad panel. The backlight module has patterns, and the shape of the patterns is formed by arranging light guide microstructures. Finally, an electric signal module is attached onto a side of the backlight module to complete manufacturing the metal keypad panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Ichia Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Che-Tung Wu, Chih-Ho Hsu
  • Publication number: 20110000774
    Abstract: An apparatus for key actuation of an electronic device comprising a linear bearing configured for transmitting user actuation, and a complementary guide portion, wherein the linear bearing and the guide portion are arranged to allow the linear bearing to move reciprocally relative to the guide portion for key activation, and wherein both the linear bearing and the guide portion comprise a material with a hardness substantially between 6 Mohrs and 10 Mohrs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gareth Osborne
  • Publication number: 20100328228
    Abstract: A touch sensor panel including a plurality of drive lines crossing a plurality of sense lines, forming an array, is disclosed. The plurality of drive lines and the plurality of sense lines are formed by interconnecting a plurality of substantially transparent conductive sections having a first resistivity. A substantially transparent conductive material, with a second resistivity that is lower than the first resistivity, is deposited over at least part of at least one of the plurality of substantially transparent conductive sections of at least one of the plurality of drive lines and the plurality of sense lines. A second layer of the substantially transparent conductive material, with the second resistivity, can be deposited thereafter. At least one dummy section is disposed in an area of the touch sensor panel around the conductive sections of at least one of the plurality of drive lines and the plurality of sense lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventor: John Greer ELIAS
  • Publication number: 20100320067
    Abstract: Formation of an assemblage of electrically conductive components for a new electrosurgical pencil is disclosed, and assembly of those components in a method for automating the manufacture and combination of current carrying metal circuitry and operable switching components in “electrosurgical pencils” which supply current to an active terminal, for application of high frequency or high power electrical current to a surgical site, and control of such current through coaction of the elements of the switch. In manufacture, the design of the switch components allows start-to-finish automated assembly of the switch, in an industry which knows only partially automated assembly, and partial assembly by hand, to create an improved tool for surgical cutting, coagulation, and cauterizing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventor: Michael Blomeyer
  • Publication number: 20100320069
    Abstract: A key-press structure comprises a transparent substrate, a plurality of characters formed inside the transparent substrate thereby forming a plurality of keys, and a touch control member disposed on the surface of the transparent substrate such that each of the keys is operable to sense a touch event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: BYD Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Lihong ZHAO, Wenhai Luo, Jiaxin Zhang
  • Patent number: 7854058
    Abstract: Methods for making and using vacuum switching devices are disclosed. A vacuum switching device has an operating rod for actuating a movable electrical contact within the device. The operating rod may be a hollow epoxy glass tube with an electrical sensor disposed within it, and there may be an elastomeric polymer filling compound disposed within the tube and encasing the sensor. The operating rod may be attached to the movable electrical contact on one end by a steel end-fitting that has been press-fit into the tube and secured with at least one cross pin. In this way, a very secure electromechanical connection may be made between the operating rod and the rest of the vacuum switching device, and the sensor is protected from shock associated with the operation of the device. Moreover, the vacuum switching device is compact and easy to construct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Daniel Schreiber, Veselin Skendzic, E. Fred Bestel, Paul N. Stoving, Richard A. Harthun
  • Patent number: 7855347
    Abstract: To obtain a member for a push button switch having a natural metallic impression and an upscale impression; enabling a precise arrangement of the push buttons; being capable of being made thinner; and being difficult to get stained, there is provided a member for a push button switch having a configuration in which a gap between adjacent metal push buttons is filled with a transparent organic polymer material, the transparent organic polymer material including a transparent resin sheet extending from an interior surface of the gap to a ceiling surface side of the push button, and a transparent rubber-like elastic material disposed inside the transparent resin sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kato, Hitoshi Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20100313409
    Abstract: A hybrid button according to the invention is provided. In one embodiment, the button can be implemented in an electronic device such as a media player. The button can include a metal or other non-plastic portion having a reverse flange and a plastic portion including anti-rotation legs. The legs can prevent rotation at least in part because they are retained by another structure. The plastic portion can be injection-molded onto the reverse flange of the metal or non-plastic portion. As such, the reverse flange fixes the position of the plastic portion with respect to the metal portion. Finally, the metal portion can include an actuator nub that actuates a switch when the button is depressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas J. Weber, Pinida Jan Moolsintong, Stephen P. Zadesky
  • Patent number: 7851955
    Abstract: An electric motor that does not provide new terminals for carrying out conductive caulking, and further, facilitates the work of using a conductive caulking machine. An electric motor coil connecting structure that connects conductors connected to a power input member and lead terminals of coils by conductive caulking and connects the power input member and the lead terminals of the coil electrically. One end of each of the conductors is formed into a terminal-shaped portion in which the lead terminals of the coil can be fitted and temporarily retained. The lead terminals of the coil are fitted in the terminal-shaped portion of the conductors and temporarily retained, and connected by conductive caulking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd
    Inventors: Tomonaga Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Uematsu
  • Publication number: 20100307898
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of manufacturing a keypad structure having a transparent keycap and a keypad structure having a transparent keycap. A metal pattern layer is formed on a transparent resin layer of a keycap component. Two print layers are formed on a transparent resin layer of an overprint component. Two print layers and the metal pattern layer are overlapped and have a level difference in height of the total thickness of the two transparent layers. Accordingly, the figure of the keypad seems to be floated and is felt to be three-dimensional.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventor: Chang-Li Liu
  • Publication number: 20100300863
    Abstract: A pressure switch (100) having a housing (101) and a connector (106) coupled to the housing (101) is provided. The housing (101) comprises a first chamber (212) and a second chamber (213). The first and second chambers (212, 213) are separated by an integrated diaphragm (102). The integrated diaphragm (102) has a first side (210) and a second side (211). The integrated diaphragm (102) flexes in response to a pre-determined pressure acting on the second side (211). A first bushing (103) is inserted into the first chamber (212) of the housing (101) and coupled to the first side of the integrated diaphragm (102). The connector (106) comprises one or more electrical contact members (219) and at least one switch (105), the at least one switch (105) communicates with the first side (210) of the integrated diaphragm (102).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: NORGREN GMBH
    Inventors: Roland Baier, Stefan Pfund
  • Publication number: 20100282949
    Abstract: A photoconductive switch is formed of a substrate that has a central portion of SiC or other photoconductive material and an outer portion of cvd-diamond or other suitable material surrounding the central portion. Conducting electrodes are formed on opposed sides of the substrate, with the electrodes extending beyond the central portion and the edges of the electrodes lying over the outer portion. Thus any high electric fields produced at the edges of the electrodes lie outside of and do not affect the central portion, which is the active switching element. Light is transmitted through the outer portion to the central portion to actuate the switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventor: George J. Caporaso
  • Patent number: 7823275
    Abstract: A method for making an electronic switch mountable on a circuit board includes the steps of: (A) providing a housing that includes a base having opposite inner and outer sides, and a cover body having a main portion that cooperates with the inner side of the base to define a chamber, and an end portion that cooperates with the outer side of the base to define a sealing space; (B) providing a terminal having a connecting part extending through the base and the sealing space for connection with the circuit board; (C) providing the base with a hollow portion that projects outwardly from the outer side thereof into the sealing space and that confines an air-discharge hole communicating fluidly with the chamber; (D) providing a first adhesive layer to seal the sealing space without covering the air-discharge hole; and (E) sealing the air-discharge hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Inventor: Tien-Ming Chou
  • Patent number: 7823268
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a transducer unit for an angular switching device, in which a transducer element is inserted and fixed in an angled bush. The inventive method is characterized in that the transducer element is brought into aligned engagement with a transducer receptacle formed in a tool, that subsequently for the precise positioning with respect to the transducer element the bush is brought into an aligned, at least partial positive engagement with a bush receptacle appropriately constructed in the tool and that for completing the transducer unit the transducer element is fixed in the bush. In further aspects the invention relates to an angular transducer unit, an angular switching device and an object detection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Pepperl + Fuchs GmbH
    Inventor: Dierk Schoen
  • Publication number: 20100271126
    Abstract: A switchable integrated electronic device includes at least three elements r1 . . . r14, s1 . . . s14 series coupled in a chain between a first port and a second port and includes a node between successive elements r1 . . . r14, s1 . . . s14 of the chain. There is a switch means for coupling a selectable one of the nodes to a third port. If successive elements r1 . . . r14, s1 . . . s14 in the chain are denoted ri, i=1 to N, and if adjacent positions occupied by the elements are numbered consecutively 1 to N, then element ri occupies position ? N + 1 2 ? + ( - 1 ) i · 2 · ? i 2 ? ? ? ? for ? ? i = 1 ? ? to ? ? ? N 2 ? and position ? N + 1 2 ? + ( - 1 ) i · ( 2 · ? N - i 2 ? + 1 ) ? ? for ? ? i = ? N 2 ? + 1 ? ? to ? ? N .
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: ST-ERICSSON SA
    Inventor: Zhenhua Wang
  • Publication number: 20100270267
    Abstract: The contact member has a finely-dispersed Cr layer 2 having a thickness between 500 ?m and 3 mm formed on the surface of a Cu—Cr alloy base material 1 through surface treatment by friction stir processing. The Cu—Cr alloy base material 1 contains 40 to 80 wt-% of Cu and 20 to 60 wt-% of Cr. The surface of the finely-dispersed Cr layer 2 is planarized after the surface treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: JAPAN AE POWER SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Noda
  • Publication number: 20100265640
    Abstract: A flat panel display device includes a cabinet, a flat panel display component, a control board, a switch unit, a switch unit holder, and a pair of screws. The switch unit has a support board and an AC switch. The switch unit holder has a holder main body with a pair of side plates that defines inside of the holder main body therebetween with the holder main body holding the support board of the switch unit inside of the holder main body, and a pair of screw mount portions that is integrally formed with the holder main body with the screw mount portions extending outside of the holder main body from the side plates of the holder main body, respectively. The screws are disposed through screw insertion holes of the screw mount portions and threaded into screw holes of the chassis of the flat panel display component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinji MORITA
  • Patent number: 7816828
    Abstract: A magnet wheel and a stator winding which are necessary for an excitation device are included in a synchronous machine. Energy is transferred to the magnet wheel through inductivity, preferably, energy to a super-conductive coil, by the excitation device. Protection against the magnetic field produced by the current in the winding head is provided in the form of a specific system which is used to reduce the corruptions of the interfering fields of stator and rotor winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Cordes, Jan Weigel, Markus Wilke
  • Publication number: 20100238611
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a low-profile, electronic circuit breaker. The electronic circuit breaker includes a housing containing first and second electrical branches coupled to respective first and second load terminals, and an electronic processing circuit within the housing adapted to monitor an electrical condition of the first and second electrical branches, wherein a maximum transverse width (Wt) of the housing is limited to occupy only a single standard breaker panelboard location. Circuit breakers including triggering mechanisms and tripping units are also disclosed. System and method aspects are provided, as are other aspects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: John DeBoer, Brian Timothy McCoy, Guang Yang
  • Publication number: 20100236908
    Abstract: Embodiments provide circuit breakers with stops adapted to prevent a lug screw from falling out of circuit breaker and/or to prevent the lug screw from blocking a wire receiver of circuit breaker lug body. In one aspect, a circuit breaker is provided having a circuit breaker housing; a lug assembly retained in the circuit breaker housing, the lug assembly including a threaded screw hole; a lug screw having driving end and a threaded shaft inserted in the threaded screw hole; and a back-out stop adapted to contact the driving end and limit an extent of backward movement of the lug screw out of the threaded screw hole. Other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell T. Watford, Timothy Biedrzycki, Brian Timothy McCoy
  • Patent number: 7797818
    Abstract: A flexible modular system for constructing a wireless communication terminal includes a keypad module and a display module. The keypad module includes a keypad module housing and a keypad mounted on the keypad module housing. The display module includes a display module housing and a display device mounted on the display module housing. The flexible modular system further includes a connector subsystem to selectively alternatively mechanically join the keypad module and the display module to form an integral wireless communication terminal having a first form factor and, alternatively, an integral wireless communication terminal having a second form factor different from the first form factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Michel Sabouné
  • Publication number: 20100230262
    Abstract: A fully sealed, low cost pushbutton switch for mounting in a panel without use of a tool comprising a single pole double throw switch enclosed within a boot/gasket housing. Two wire leads are attached to terminals on the push button switch in a cavity area which is filled with an epoxy, and a base cover forms and seals a lower surface of the terminal cavity areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventor: PATRICK J. DEVINE
  • Publication number: 20100213039
    Abstract: A MEMS element of an aspect of the present invention including a first electrode provided on a substrate, a second electrode which is provided above the first electrode and which is driven toward the first electrode, an anchor provided on the substrate, a beam which supports the second electrode in midair, one end of the beam being connected to the anchor and the beam including a sidewall part provided at its end in the width direction, the sidewall part having a downward-facing protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventor: Tomohiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20100214045
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for production of a low current switch module, comprising the following steps: precutting a fine conductor path of several conducting circuits connected by connector tracks in the same sheet, positioning the contact relay and other optional electronic components on the precut conductor path, electrically and mechanically connecting said contact relay and the optional electronic components on the conductor track, encapsulating the unit comprising the conductor path, contact relay, the optional components, the pins and electrical connectors thereof and cutting certain connector tracks such as to separate said circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: VALEO SECURITE HABITACLE
    Inventor: Fabrice Giacomin
  • Patent number: 7781690
    Abstract: Portable phones are getting a trend that s design and thinner configuration becomes more important. Therefore, in order to meet this demand, the entire key top is made of a thin metal, and a thin resin layer is provided on the back surface of the key top and further letter holes are filled with a resin. According to those, the adhesiveness of the key top is improved as well as improvement of hand feeling. In addition, a printed layer for coloring the letters can be provided on the back surface of the key top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Sunarrow Limited
    Inventor: Hisashi Ishii
  • Publication number: 20100192360
    Abstract: An improved vacuum interrupter is disclosed. The vacuum interrupter includes a ring-shaped structure placed between a contact support structure and an electrical contact associated with the contact support structure. A resistivity of the ring-shaped structure is higher than that of the contact support structure, so that current traversing the ring-shaped structure on its way from the contact support structure to the electrical contact is evenly distributed. The ring-shaped structure may be fit into an end portion of the contact support structure, the end portion having a diameter less than an outer diameter of the support structure, but greater than an inner diameter of the support structure. Alternatively, the end portion may be used without the ring-shaped portion, in which case the electrical contact may be shaped to fit into the end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: COOPER TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Paul N. Stoving, E. Fred Bestel
  • Patent number: 7765681
    Abstract: A fabrication method of an RF MEMS switch includes forming a signal transmission line having a first signal transmission line and a second signal transmission line electrically separated from each other for transmitting a signal and forming an on/off component for turning on/off the signal transmission line. The forming the on/off component further includes forming a suspension layer, forming a piezoelectric capacitor disposed at the suspension layers, and actuated with a piezoelectric characteristic by receiving an external power, forming a contact electrode disposed at the suspension layers, and electrically separated from the piezoelectric capacitors, and forming a ground line adjacent to the signal transmission line, wherein the ground line is electrically connected to the signal transmission line by a connection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jae-Yeong Park, Hee-Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 7767920
    Abstract: A switch comprises a switch housing including a cover and a terminal block coupled with the cover. The cover is formed of a colored, laser transmissive material and the terminal block is formed of a laser non-transmissive material. A thin part is circularly formed in the cover formed of the colored laser transmissive material on the periphery side of the switch housing and is thinner than another part of the cover and a thermal welding part is circularly formed along the thin part by means of a laser beam for coupling the terminal block with the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignees: Niles America Wintech, Inc., Niles Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Matsuhashi, Atsuko Hildebrand, Anthony C. Bormes, Kenji Amimoto
  • Publication number: 20100187082
    Abstract: A switch useful for, inter alia, a touch type keyboard or keypad which may be used for a personal computer or the like in a substantially waterproof form while being relatively inexpensive to manufacture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventor: Dale McPhee Purcocks
  • Publication number: 20100186219
    Abstract: A mechanical force switch to be disposed along a longitudinal device axis of a medical device includes an electrically conductive switching piston to form a first electrical contact of the switch, a hollow body, an end stop, a bias device, and an electrically conductive second contact of the switch electrically insulated from the piston. The piston is movably disposed in the body hollow along the axis to define different switch-making and -breaking positions. The piston is also movably disposed in a cavity of the stop and the stop is disposed in the body. The stop can be a smooth or threaded puck. The bias device surrounds the piston and imparts bias against it to retain it in one of the two positions until an external axis force overcomes the bias, at which time the switch indicates a state changeover. The switch can be normally open or closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventor: Kevin W. Smith
  • Publication number: 20100181176
    Abstract: An illuminating structure of a key operating unit for operating a key switch includes a housing unit to have a window portion formed correspondingly to the key switch, a circuit substrate to be provided inside the housing unit, to be disposed with the key switch, and to be provided with a light-guiding window portion, a keypad unit to include a key top portion inserted in the window portion of the housing unit, the keypad unit including a light-guiding portion at least in the key top portion, a light-emitting element to be arranged on a back surface side of the circuit substrate, and an illuminating plate to have a reflecting portion reflecting outgoing light of the light-emitting element to apply the reflected light from the reflecting portion to the keypad unit through the light-guiding window portion of the circuit substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: FIJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Keisuke IGARASHI, Hiroyuki Uchida, Naoto Yamashita, Kazunori Katou, Toshiyuki Itou
  • Publication number: 20100175976
    Abstract: A keypad assembly, comprising: a main body made of metal, the main body defining a plurality of slots and the slots enclosing a plurality of pressing buttons thereon, each pressing button defining at least one symbol slot, the main body having a contact surface and a operating surface; and a light-transmissive filling member, the filling member defining a plurality of protruding strips and the protruding strips enclosing a plurality of button areas thereon, each button area having at least one symbol block protruding therefrom, the filling member bonding to the contact surface with the protruding strips and the symbol blocks respectively engaging in the corresponding slots and the symbol slots. A method for making the present keypad assembly is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicants: SHENZHEN FUTAIHONG PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., FIH (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: HSU-TANG CHEN, WEN-TE LAI, HSIANG-JUNG SU, LIANG XIONG, KAI-MING GUO, YOU-LI LIU, JIAN-HUA WU, ZHAO-LONG ZHENG
  • Patent number: 7752738
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for fabricating compliant spring contacts for use in, for example, IC packaging and interconnection between multi-layers in stacked IC packages and electronic components. Internal stresses generated within an formed film are released to cause the film to buckle and/or bow away from a supporting terminal. A thin stressed metal film layer is selectively broken away from the substrate of the supporting terminal allowing the stressed metal film to take on a bowed and/or spring-like shaped through minute deformation based on a release of the internal stresses. The resultant thin compliant spring contact can deform a small amount as the spring contact is then pressed against a compatible mating contact surface in an overlying layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventor: Thomas H. DiStefano
  • Publication number: 20100170775
    Abstract: Disclosed is a keypad assembly and a method for manufacturing the keypad assembly in which a base film member and a button member of the keypad assembly are integrally formed. The keypad assembly includes a base film member, a button member integrally formed with the base film member, and a processed part formed by recessing a space between buttons keys of the button member in a predetermined depth to be spaced apart from the base film member, the processed part being formed on the base film member. The keypad assembly is manufactured such that the button member and the base film member to be recessed between a button key including a pattern of the button member and an adjacent button key in a predetermined depth of the base film member so as to form a processed part. Therefore, the button member can be formed through UV-molding and the press of the button member is simplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo-Hoon LEE, Gean-Hyung Kim, Se-Jin Kim
  • Publication number: 20100170876
    Abstract: A circuit breaker has at least one housing having at least one opening, and at least one pair of contacts located in the housing, the contacts of the pair of contacts being mobile in relation to each other for opening and closing an electric circuit. An open-pore metal foam (20) is interposed between at least one of the pairs of contacts and at least one housing opening (11), the metal foam being electrically insulated from the current-carrying elements of the circuit breaker (1). An open-pore metal foam (20), produced of a zinc base alloy or aluminum base alloy, can be used as a cooling structure for the dissipation of heat from switching gases that are produced by an electric switching process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Bach, Werner Hartmann, Detlev Schmidt, Günter Seidler, Sezai Türkmen, Artur Wajnberg
  • Publication number: 20100170875
    Abstract: A circuit breaker includes a conductor, a fixed contact connected to the conductor, and an arc runner disposed on the conductor adjacent the fixed contact. The arc runner includes a first portion abutting the fixed contact and a second portion disposed in a recess of the circuit breaker housing. The arc runner is adapted to draw an arc from the fixed contact. A circuit breaker operating mechanism cooperates with a movable contact for opening and closing the fixed contact and the movable contact. An arc chute is adjacent the arc runner. A trip unit cooperates with the operating mechanism to trip open the fixed and movable contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: LOUIS F. GRAHOR, Roger W. Helms, Kimberley I. Morris, Williams M. Randal
  • Patent number: 7748105
    Abstract: A method for producing a switching device with a switching device with a switching structure (1). The method includes producing a molded part, which includes a cage formed by opposing first sidewalls (5) and a bottom wall (6) integrally connecting the first sidewalls, and second sidewalls (23) integrally connected to the cage assembly, severing the molded part at a point where the second sidewalls are connected to the cage, and inserting the cage and the severed second sidewalls into a bottom part such that a defined gap (27) is left, respectively, between the cage and the second sidewalls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudolf Kinzler, Ludwig Niebler, Anton Scharf
  • Publication number: 20100164759
    Abstract: The invention provides an input device of an electric apparatus and a method of manufacturing an input device, wherein the input device comprises: a key member (110) for receiving an input from a user, the key member (110) comprising a plurality of circumferentially arranged touch-sensitive sensor segments (2A to 2H) and having at least one degree of freedom with respect to the body of the electric apparatus; and a feedback unit (204) coupled to the key member (110) and configured to generate feedback to the key member (100) in the direction of the at least one degree of freedom as a response to the input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: ELEKTROBIT WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS OY
    Inventors: Kim Kivela, Jarkko Vatjus-Anttila
  • Publication number: 20100163528
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bushing terminal of a vacuum circuit breaker used for interrupting current, which includes: a terminal body having a cylinder that can be inserted into the interior of a contactor and annular protrusions formed to be protrude from an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder; and a flange having an insertion hole through which the cylinder is inserted, wherein the annular protrusions are plastic-deformed so as to be fixed to the insertion hole of the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: LS INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jae-Kwan SEO
  • Publication number: 20100156827
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel which can detect a touch position derived from a user's touch and can prevent erroneous touch position data from being generated even when an erroneous connection to a position sensing line is present due a processing deviation or a cell gap deviation, and a manufacturing method of the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Sun-Kyu Joo, Ju-Hyeon Baek, Ji-Young Jeong, Sung-Man Kim, Myung-Sub Lee