Patent ID: 7211757

Claim:
A slide switch comprising: a housing; a knob that is slidably provided in the housing; a plurality of terminals that are disposed in the housing; and a click spring that is disposed in the housing, and has a characteristic that as a displacement level thereof is increased, stress thereof increases, and as the displacement level is further increased, the stress decreases sharply, wherein the click spring is arranged so that force for operating the knob decreases sharply when the terminals are electrically connected to each other, wherein the click spring is arranged so that: when the knob is slid in a direction and abuts against the click spring directly or indirectly, the force increases sharply with its abutting, and a first group of the terminals are electrically connected to each other; when the knob is slid more in the direction, the force increases more and reaches a peak; and when the force decrease sharply, a second group of the terminals are electrically connected to each other.