Patent ID: 6759615
Filing Date: 2004-07-06
Classification: H01H

Abstract:
A switch device comprising:a device body; an operating member, for operating a switch portion by movement thereof, reciprocally movably mounted on the device body; a cam groove portion formed in one of the device body and the operating member; a lock pin which includes a proximal end portion mounted on the other of the device body and the operating member, and a distal end portion which can slide in the cam groove portion so as to releasably hold the operating member in two positions; a holding spring for urging the lock pin toward a bottom surface of the cam groove portion, mounted on the other of the device body and the operating member with its opposite end portions fitted therein; a pin engagement portion, for engaging the lock pin to prevent the dropping of the lock pin in a condition before the operating member is mounted, formed on the other of the device body and the operating member; and an engagement cancellation portion, for disengaging the lock pin from the pin engagement portion in a mounted condition of the operating member, formed on the one of the device body and the operating member.