Patent 7395872 was granted and assigned to Bosch on July, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention is directed to a switching device with a rotatably mounted operating element (10) and an eccentric element (12) for translating a rotational displacement (14) of the operating element (10) into a translatory displacement (16) of a switching element (18), in particular a selector shaft of a hand-held power tool.