Patent attributes
A switch includes a housing defining bottom and top receiving grooves and a chamber, and a plurality of angularly spaced apart terminal rods mounted on the housing. The terminal rods have top and bottom end portions disposed around the top and bottom receiving grooves, respectively. Each terminal rod further has spaced-apart top and bottom transverse flanges disposed between the receiving grooves. The conductive ball is movable from the chamber to the top or bottom receiving groove and vice versa. The conductive ball contacts two adjacent ones of the terminal rods by bridging the top and bottom transverse flanges of the corresponding two terminal rods when the switch is in an ON position, and moves into the top or bottom receiving groove when the switch is in an OFF position.
