Safety edge switch for power-actuated devices such as roller gates, roller grilles, lifting platforms and working platforms as well as for securing movable objects and machines having a hollow elastic profile, which exhibits, at least on its inner side, surfaces that are electrically conductive by virture of admixtures of conductive substances, such as carbon black, graphite and metal powder, mutual contact of the electrically conductive surfaces leading to a switching pulse. The hollow body exhibits in the interior at least two strip-like, electrically conductive projections and at least one opposing surface, likewise electrically conductive, guided along the hollow body, by which means contacting between the electrically conductive surfaces is improved. The use of multiple electrically conductive projections insures adequate electrical contact between the conductive projections and the opposed conductive surface even when the operating force is applied from various directions.
A safety contact or switch hose having a plurality of electrically conductive projections which generate a switching pulse when coming into contact with one another.
Safety edge switch (1) for power-driven equipment or power-driven doors, sliding equipment and so forth of vehicles, with a hollow profile made of an elastomeric material and having a mounting profile (2) and a shell part (3), in which hollow profile there is an internal body (4), the internal body part (4) and the shell part (3) having electrically conductive zones that, upon mutual contact, initiate a switching pulse that can be led to an interpretation unit. The mounting profile (2) is made electrically conductive and is electrically conductively connected to the internal body part (4) or the shell part (3).
A pressure responsive switch includes a flexible hollow cord member which includes a predetermined wall portion and an opposing portion which generally opposes the predetermined wall portion. In a transverse cross section of the hollow cord member, a neutral axis of the cord switch is located to the predetermined wall portion side from the center of the distance between the predetermined wall portion and the opposing portion. A contact portion is disposed inwardly of the hollow cord member and extends on a portion of the predetermined wall portion along the longitudinal direction of the hollow cord member. A contact body is disposed apart from the contact portion and extends along the longitudinal direction of the hollow cord member, the contact body being disposed inwardly of the hollow cord member and extending from the opposing portion to portions between the predetermined wall portion and the opposing portion in the hollow cord member, as viewed from a transverse cross section of the hollow cord member.
A safety switch (1) has a support (2) of an elastomer and a through-going cavity (3). Within the cavity (3) are arranged electrical conductors (4) and (5) which in a rest condition are arranged at a distance (9) from one another. The electrical conductors (4, 5) are each formed as a strip of carbon fibers and have one broad side (6) and (7) vulcanized to the support (2) either directly or by way of a coupling layer (8). Substantially perpendicular pressure (12, 13) on the safety switch (1) leads to the deformation of the support (2) and eventually to the contact of the electrical conductors (4, 5) with each other. By this means, safety functions are controlled.
A safety edge switch which may be utilized to sense an obstruction present in a window opening upon closure of the respective window of an automotive vehicle. The switch may be secured to a window opening by adhesive attachment. The switch includes an outer peripheral portion preferably shaped as an oval and constructed of a resilient material which defines a central aperture. A second smaller structure constructed of conductive elastomer is located in the central aperture and secured to an internal wall thereof. A portion of the outer peripheral member opposite the second smaller oval shaped structure features a conductive elastomeric portion extending parallel thereto and maintained separate therefrom by the resilient physical properties of the outer peripheral portion. The assembly provides a switch which may be actuated upon displacement of a first dimension A which preferably interrupts application of power to the actuator causing window closure and, in addition, permits a second displacement which accommodates any overtravel such as dimension B which may occur subsequent to removal of power from the actuator closing the referenced window. The conductive elastomeric portions include copper drain wires for reliable low resistance switching along the length thereof, such that the obstruction causing displacement of the safety edge switch at any location therealong provides a change in continuity of electrical conduction therethrough. The device as indicated is sensitive to normal forces in addition to any angular force which may be applied thereto. The switch is co-extruded as one assembly.
