Floating Lever Patents (Class 337/60)
  • Patent number: 11969540
    Abstract: A suction and irrigation implement includes a handpiece, a pair of aligned adjacent valve assemblies, a rocker and a hub. The body may be transparent to allow visualization of aspirated substances. The valve assemblies include a plunger with a conical core that increases the area of the valve opening with increased depression. The rocker, a pivoting actuator, opens one valve assembly at a time, thereby preventing simultaneous irrigation and suction. A suction and irrigation tube connects to the hub, which may be rotated to adjust the orientation of the tube, while the implement is in use. Detents define specific orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventors: Timothy J Reis, John Douglas Barrow, Michael J Ontiveros
  • Patent number: 11735384
    Abstract: A fusible disconnect switch device is provided. The disconnect switch a switch actuator, an actuator bias element, and a slider assembly. The switch actuator is selectively positionable between an opened position and a closed position. The actuator bias element includes a first end acting on the switch actuator and a second end coupled to the switch housing. The slider assembly is linked to the switch actuator. The slider assembly includes a first slider and a second slider each slidably movable with respect to the switch housing along a linear axis. The first slider is independently movable relative to the second slider. The actuator bias element and the slider assembly are responsive to the position of the switch actuator to effect the switch closing operation and a switch opening operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: You Lu, Xuecheng Zhang, Robert S. Douglass
  • Patent number: 8766761
    Abstract: A rocker switch unit (1) with fuse comprising a housing (2); a rocker switch (3) lodged pivotally in the housing (2); at least a fuse lodged in the housing (2) and at least two connection elements (9) for connecting the rocker switch unit (1) with an external apparatus, wherein the two connection elements (9) are connected to each other by the fuse, when rocker switch (3) is in an ON-position. According to the invention the housing (2) provides at least one blind hole (4) for accommodating the fuse, wherein one terminal of the fuse serves as a first connection element for connecting the rocker switch unit (1) with the external apparatus. The rocker switch unit 1 can be used in any apparatus, in a network filter or as IEC entry plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Schaffner EMV AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Schwabenland
  • Patent number: 7310041
    Abstract: The invention relates to a re-settable, single-phase, thermo/electric circuit breaker utilizing a U-shape bimetallic element of substantial resistance properties in the circuit, so that when a predetermined overload current occurs the bimetallic element self heats and moves to trip a mechanism that opens the breaker circuit. The invention replaces the double-contact break configuration normally associated with a breaker of this type, with a single contact break configuration designed to produce a sliding action between contacts during the normal reset operation, providing a more reliable continuity at the moveable and stationary contact interface that is also less expensive to produce.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: MP Hollywood LLC
    Inventors: James Allison, William Pollock
  • Patent number: 6552644
    Abstract: A safety press-button switch includes a linkage formed of a lever and a switching rod pivoted together, and a press-button cap having a push rod and a hook arm respectively aimed at the switching rod and a positioning rod of the lever and adapted to force the lever to shift a bimetal plate from OFF position to ON position and to hold the lever in position after the bimetal plate switched on, the positioning rod of the lever being forced away from the hook arm by the deformation force of the bimetal plate for enabling the bimetal plate to trip off automatically upon an overload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Inventor: Tsung-Mou Yu
  • Patent number: 5889457
    Abstract: An overload protective circuit breaker switch including: a first fixed contact and a second fixed contact adapted to connect an electric appliance to power supply; a movable contact adapted to form with the first fixed contact and the second fixed contact a normal open contact; an actuator controlled by the user to turn about an axis; a lever coupled to and turned with the actuator, the lever being turned about a first bearing point, when the overload protective circuit breaker switch is not at an overload status, to move the movable contact between a normal open contact position in which the movable contact form with the first fixed contact and the second fixed contact a normal open contact, and a normal close contact position in which the movable contact form with the first fixed contact and the second fixed contact a normal close contact; and a release mechanism adapted to move the lever, the release mechanism releasing the lever from the first bearing point to a second bearing point upon an overload, caus
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Inventors: Cheng-Chao Hsu, Hsien-Wen Hung, Kuang-Tsan Hung, Hui-Fang Hung
  • Patent number: 5525952
    Abstract: A one-piece resilient switchblade includes contacts on its opposite end portions. A mounting arm extends transversely of the switchblade and is attached to a switchcase under bending stress for biasing the switchblade against a fulcrum. The mounting arm twists and the switchblade bows under influence of the force acting on the switchblade through the fulcrum. A movable bumper changes the fulcrum point to reverse the twist in the mounting arm and the bow in the switchblade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: Therm-O-Disc, Incorporated
    Inventor: Derek J. Rose
  • Patent number: 4167720
    Abstract: A circuit breaker composed of a contact spring fixed at one end, carrying a movable contact at its free end and biassed to urge the movable contact away from an associated fixed contact, a switching rocker pivotally mounted to selectively move the spring into a contact closing position, and a release device arranged to move the spring into the contact opening position independently of the position of the rocker, is further provided with a latching lever which extends approximately parallel to the contact spring, is mounted to be pivotal in a direction parallel to the direction of movement of the spring and of the rocker, and is operatively connected between the spring, the rocker and the release device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1979
    Assignee: Ellenberger & Poensgen GmbH
    Inventor: Fritz Krasser