Appeal No. 2003-2098 Page 16
Application No. 09/833,978
34 is press fitted between the contact portions 28 and 19. The diode will control current
direction of an electrical circuit completed across the diode and through the contact
portions 26 and 19.
Lockard's switch includes a base 38 having a plurality of spaced partitions 40
projecting therefrom. The top of the partitions 42 may be provided with a central recess
44. The axle 32 of knob 30 will bridge across and be supported by two of these
partitions 40. The base 38 has mounted thereon opposed pairs of contacts
46 and 48 which have corresponding end portions 46' and 48' projecting diagonally
toward each other in suspended cantilever portion over the base 38. Contact 46a
includes an arcuately bent end portion 62. Opposite end portions 46b and 48b of the
terminals 46 and 48 project outwardly of the base 38 in depending relationship
therefrom for pluggable connection within apertures 50 of a printed circuit board 52
having circuit paths 54 and 56 thereon.
Lockard's switch also includes a housing 64 having a generally inverted recess
66 latchably secured to the side portions 68 of the base 38 retaining the terminals 46
and 48 in position between the base and the cover 64. The cover 64 has a top wall 70
with a slot 72 therein through which knob 30 projects. With the knob 30 of the switch in
its position shown in Figure 3, the contact portion 22 of contact 19 will engage and
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