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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2001
Shinya Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Niles Parts Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To enable to provide an inhibitor switch capable of maintaining an accurate ON/OFF state for a long period of time regardless of wear of a moving contact and having high durability. The inhibitor switch includes a fixed contact and a moving contact; a base disk is projected with insulator portions formed by insulating members in correspondence with an ON/OFF switch position of the fixed contact constituting a boundary of contact and non-contact of the moving contact relative to the fixed contact; the moving contact is provided with a ride-on portion capable of riding on the insulator portion when the moving contact is slidingly moved relative to the fixed contact and the moving contact is disposed at the ON/OFF switch position of the fixed contact; the ride-on portion rides on the insulator portion; the moving contact is separated from and brought into non-contact with the fixed contact; and when the ride-on portion comes down from the insulator portion, the moving contact is brought into contact with the ON/OFF switch position of the fixed contact.