Patent ID: 7078638

Claim:
An inhibitor switch used with an automatic transmission having a mission case and a manual rotatable manual shaft, comprising: a pole base having fixed contacts; a movable base that supports movable contacts that move rotationally so as to cause said movable contacts to slide under contact pressure against said fixed contacts; said movable base being interlocked and linked to the manual shaft of the automatic transmission inside the mission case of the automatic transmission and a rotation position of the manual shaft being detected by a rotational movement of the movable contacts with respect to said fixed contacts; said pole base mating with said mission case; an insertion portion having a spacing in the axial direction of said manual shaft provided on said pole base; a positioning bracket comprising an insert portion for inserting into said insertion portion at one end thereof and having another other end thereof secured to said mission case side; and said pole base side is positioned axially of said manual shaft by inserting said insert portion into said insertion portion.