Patent ID: 7994447

Claim:
A push button switch device wherein a switch element switched on or off by a downward pressing operation of a push button section is disposed in a switch case as shifted toward a first end from the center of the push button section, the push button switch device comprising: an operation body which is disposed in the switch case and is movable upward or downward as interlocked with the pressing operation of the push button section or with a releasing operation thereof, a plurality of engagement portions of which are formed on edges thereof and are engaged with edges of the switch case in order to prevent disengagement from the switch case, and a pressed portion of which is rotated downward about at least one of the engagement portions that corresponds to the pressed portion when the pressing operation is performed; a pressing body which is disposed in the switch case at place under the operation body, which is oscillatably supported on a support point located at any position between first and second ends thereof for seesaw movement between the first and second ends thereof, and which presses the switch element by means of the first end thereof moved upward; an urging element for urging downward the first end of the pressing body and for urging upward the second end thereof; and a contact section which abuts against the second end of the pressing body as formed substantially centrally of a lower side of the operation body, and which moves down the second end of the pressing body against the urging force of the urging element as driven by the downward movement of the operation body interlocked with the pressing operation of the push button section.