Patent ID: 6894240

Claim:
A push switch comprising: a switch contact section including first and second contacts; and an elastic element including a columnar portion for connecting the first and second contacts by pushing the first contact, a hollow conical portion extending from a junction positioned at an end of the columnar portion, the conical portion having a truncated conical shape, and a thick portion provided at a whole circumstance of the junction, wherein, in the thick portion, a distance from an intersection where an extension line of an outer circumference of the columnar portion and an extension line of an outer circumference of the conical portion cross to an intersection where an outer circumference of the junction and a bisector of a crossing angle formed by the extension line of the outer circumference of the columnar portion and the extension line of the outer circumference of the conical portion ranges from 0.08 times to 0.14 times of a thickness of the conical portion.