US 12,035,435 B2
Two different configurations of an always-on slide switch applicable within an illumination device
Tianci Zhou, Shanghai (CN); and Chengbin Liu, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC, East Cleveland, OH (US)
Filed by SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC, East Cleveland, OH (US)
Filed on Dec. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/542,315.
Claims priority of application No. 202022876300.X (CN), filed on Dec. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0183124 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. H01H 15/24 (2006.01); F21V 23/04 (2006.01); H05B 45/44 (2020.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01)
CPC H05B 45/44 (2020.01) [F21V 23/04 (2013.01); H01H 15/24 (2013.01); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multi-step shorting switch, comprising:
a housing, wherein an upper surface or a side surface thereof is provided with an opening;
a toggle device provided in the housing, wherein a top portion or a side surface, corresponding to the opening, of the toggle device is provided with a toggle, the toggle passes through the opening, and a portion of the toggle device is provided with a sliding contact member; and
three contact terminals provided on a substrate,
wherein the multi-step shorting switch is configured to have three steps by having the sliding contact member configured to, in a sliding process caused by that the toggle is shifted, simultaneously contact two or all three of the contact terminals, to form the three steps which are continuously in a turn-on status without a turn-off status,
wherein the three contact terminals comprise a first contact terminal, a second contact terminal and a third contact terminal which are interval-arranged in a straight line, and the sliding contact member comprises a first contact clip, a second contact clip and a third contact clip which respectively correspond to the first contact terminal, the second contact terminal and the third contact terminal.