US 11,929,218 B2
Rocker arm of an electric switch, blocking device with such a rocker arm, and electric switch with such a rocker arm and such a blocking device
Ekkehard Plechinger, Roeckersbuehl (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed by Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed on Apr. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/241,413.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 205 389.8 (DE), filed on Apr. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0343490 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. H01H 23/14 (2006.01); H01H 23/20 (2006.01); H01H 23/28 (2006.01)
CPC H01H 23/143 (2013.01) [H01H 23/205 (2013.01); H01H 23/28 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A blocking device comprising:
a rocker arm of an electric switch, the electric switch being actuatable by the rocker arm for setting definable positions, the rocker arm including
a first part, configured to set the definable positions, and
a second part, movable between a first position and a second position, the second position being farther from the first part than the first position; and
a slotted link including holes, a first end of the second part of the rocker arm being configured to enter the holes at assigned positions among the definable positions,
wherein, in the first position of the second part, the first part is movable into the definable positions, and
wherein, in the second position of the second part, movement of the first part is blocked.