POWER-SWITCHING DEVICE WITH INTERLOCK MECHANISM

摘要

A power-switching device with interlock mechanism has a housing with a rotary knob, a slider slidably moved into a rotation range of the rotary knob, and an activation switch mounted on a sliding path of the slider. The activation switch has a control button located on an overlapped portion of the sliding path of the slider and the rotation range of the rotary knob. When the slider approaches the rotary knob, the activation switch is activated and the rotary knob is unable to rotate for being blocked. When the slider departs from the rotary knob, the activation switch is deactivated and the rotary switch is rotatable. Accordingly, when manually bypassing a UPS by turning the rotary knob, users will not forget to deactivate the activation switch, thereby avoiding damaging the UPS.

主权项

1. A power-switching device with interlock mechanism comprising:
a housing having:
a rotary knob mounted on the housing and having a rotation range; andat least one sliding track, wherein one end of each one of the at least one sliding track is positioned within the rotation range of the rotary knob; a slider slidably mounted on the at least one sliding track, having a sliding path partially overlapping the rotation range, and blocking the rotary knob and preventing the rotary knob from rotating when entering the rotation range of the rotary knob through the sliding path; and an activation switch mounted on the housing, having a control button overlapping an overlapped portion of the sliding path of the slider and the rotation range of the rotary knob, and activated when the slider is slidably moved to the overlapped portion of the sliding path of the slider and the control button.