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Details
Inventors: La Belle, John T.; Szemeredi, Robert S.; Tarnay, Matthew G.;
Assignee: Price Pfister, Inc. (Pacoima, CA)
Primary Examiner: Marcus; Stephen
Assistant Examiner: Cusick; Ernest G.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman

Individual switch actuators are formed by etching offset grooves in opposite sides of a thin metal plate. The groove on one side of the plate falls just within the groove on the other side of the plate. A web is formed between the adjacent groove walls which provides significant localized flexibility. A discrete contact pad is defined on the inside that is in the plane of the metal plate.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION In order to accomplish the foregoing objective, independent switch actuators are formed by etching a perimetric groove on the outside of the cover plate to define each actuator, and by etching a registering, but just slightly inwardly offset, perimetric groove on the inside of the cover plate.
A thin web is thus formed between the adjacent recess walls which provides localized flexibility, all without undue reduction in wall thickness.
A contact pad is formed on the inside of the cover plate that is in the plane of the cover plate itself.
A simple spacer sheet is interposed between the cover plate and the circuit board on which contact segment pairs are formed.
The spacer sheet has holes to expose the contact pad to the corresponding pair of contact segments.
No supplemental conductive pads or the like are required to build up a contactor.
The resulting structure is simple and effective.



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