Steering column switch with indirectly guided bridging contacts

US4882457A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• SWF Auto-Electric GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Herbert Erdelitsch · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
• Otto Machalitzky · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
• Horst Rachner · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 17, 1988
• Grant date: Nov 21, 1989
• Expiry date: May 17, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60Q1/1469
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A steering column switch for motor vehicles comprises a switch member guiding the bridging contact and being swivellably located around an axis. The stationary contacts, however, acted upon by this bridging contact are arranged along a straight line and in a plane repsectively in parallel to the axis of rotation of the switch member. The bridging contact is not directly guided by the switch member, but by a switching arm substantially radially swivellable in relation to the switch member so that the bridging contact is movable along a staight line despite the circular movement of the switch member.