Patent ID: 8680409

Claim:
An electric switch, comprising: a rotor housing including a wall section, the wall section including at least two recesses formed at a desired depth in the wall section; at least one electric contact arm, rotatably mounted in the rotor housing, said at least one electric contact arm being pivotable between an on-position and an off-position, and relative to the rotor housing; and at least one intermediate part including, at least one locking element which, in a first locking position, is adapted to lock the pivotable at least one electric contact arm with the rotor housing using a first recess of the at least two recesses and which, in the event of a relative rotation between the pivotable electric contact arm and the rotor housing, is adapted to be moved away from the first locking position to a second locking position using a second recess of the at least two recesses, the at least one locking element being held in the first and second locking positions in a resiliently clamped manner, and at least one spring, arranged between the rotor housing and the pivotable electric contact arm, a first end of the at least one spring pressing onto the at least one locking element and a second end of the at least one spring being braced against the pivotable electric contact arm.