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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 1989
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1988
Hideyuki Bingo, Uji, JP;
Takashi Yoshimura, Mishima, JP;
Masatsugu Yamashita, Kyoto, JP;
Shinichi Hashizume, Kusatsu, JP;
Norio Iwakiri, Otokuni, JP;
Omron Tateisi Electronics Co., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
This slide switch includes: a casing formed in a hollow box shape with an open top; several fixed contacts on the bottom surface of the casing and several terminals connected to them extending to the outside of the casing; a cover mounted to close the open top of the casing, formed with a hole opposed to the fixed contacts; and a slide member disposed inside the casing, which has a control portion protruding out through the hole in the cover and a movable contact portion made of a resilient electrically conducting material which bears against the internal bottom surface of the casing and thereby produces a biasing force on the slide member to impel it in the direction towards the cover. The movable contact portion of the slide member, according as the control portion of the slide member is moved from outside the casing, selectively connects together a combination of the fixed contacts. The movable contact is mounted to the slider so that movement of the contact within a plane parallel to the bottom surface of the casing is solely restricted to the sliding direction of the slider.