Switch including sealing and shielding means therefor

• US 3,317,698 A
• Filed: 03/11/1966
• Issued: 05/02/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/1966
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William E. Mansfield
• Original Assignee: William E. Mansfield
• Inventors: Mansfield, William E.
• Application Number:
  US04/533,597
• Time in Patent Office: 417 Days
• US Class Current: 200/333
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/00 Screening of apparatus or components against electric or magnetic fields devices for absorbing radiation from an antenna H01Q17/00

Claims

1. APPARATUS COMPRISING IN COMBINATION, A PANEL;

AN ELECTRICAL COMPONENT MOUNTED ON SAID PANEL AND INCLUDING AN ACTUABLE ELEMENT EXTENDING THEREFROM;

A COMBINED ENVIRONMENTAL SEAL AND RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE SHIELD COVERING SAID ELEMENT, SAID SEAL AND SHIELD COMPRISING A FRAME-LIKE MEMBER MOLDED FROM ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE RESILIENT MATERIAL AND INCLUDING FLANGE MEANS SEALED TO SAID PANEL SURROUNDING SAID ELEMENT;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVE SCREEN MEANS BONDED TO SAID FRAME-LIKE MEMBER AND PROVIDING A WINDOW THROUGH WHICH THE ACTUABLE ELEMENT OF SAID ELECTRICAL COMPONENT CAN BE OBSERVED;

AND TRANSPARENT MEANS COVERING SAID SCREEN MEANS AND BONDED TO SAID FRAME-LIKE MEMBER.