US 11,990,290 B2
Detachable pushbutton structure
Chih-Yuan Wu, New Taipei (TW); Chih-Hao Sung, New Taipei (TW); and Yi-Wen Qiu, New Taipei (TW)
Assigned to Switchlab Inc., New Taipei (TW); Switchlab (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai (CN); and Gaocheng Electronics Co., Ltd., Guangdong (CN)
Filed by SWITCHLAB INC., New Taipei (TW); SWITCHLAB (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD., Shanghai (CN); and GAOCHENG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Aug. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/819,404.
Claims priority of application No. 110136291 (TW), filed on Sep. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0094921 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. H01H 13/14 (2006.01); H01H 13/04 (2006.01); H01H 13/20 (2006.01)
CPC H01H 13/14 (2013.01) [H01H 13/04 (2013.01); H01H 13/20 (2013.01); H01H 2233/07 (2013.01)] 36 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A detachable pushbutton structure comprising:
a case seat formed with an internal receiving space, an opening being formed on one side of the receiving space, a base seat being disposed on an other side of the receiving space, the base seat having multiple contact legs outward protruding from the case seat, a linking member being disposed on a lateral side of the base seat for controlling respective contact legs to form different conducting states;
support seat received in the receiving space and connected with the linking member, a penetrating hole being formed at a center of the support seat, a connected section being disposed on a lateral side of the support seat;
a cap assembly having a cap plug, which can be tightly capped on the penetrating hole of the support seat;
a pushbutton disposed in the opening of the receiving space, a fitting section being disposed under a bottom section of the pushbutton for fitting onto the cap plug, a connection section also disposed under the bottom section of the pushbutton for connecting with the connected section, whereby the pushbutton can be connected with the support seat to drive the support seat to drive the linking member to operate; and
a ring-shaped protective ring, an outer flange being disposed on an outer circumference of the protective ring for securely connecting with a middle portion of an inner circumference of the receiving space, an inner flange being disposed on an inner circumference of the protective ring for securely connecting with an outer circumference of the support seat, an elastically deformable flexible section being formed between the inner flange and the outer flange.