Patent ID: 8921723

Claim:
A slide switch, sensing an extracted state and an inserted and engaged state of an object, comprising: a body; a slider slidably held in the body and pushed by insertion of the object to slidingly move; a terminal provided with a fixed contact point disposed on a surface, facing the slider, of the body along a sliding movement direction; and an armature attached to the slider and provided with a moving contact point sliding on a fixed contact point disposition surface of the body in association with sliding movement of the slider; wherein the slider has an armature mounting surface in one end in the sliding movement direction with a first side wall protrudingly formed therein, the body has a first facing surface facing an end surface of the first side wall formed in an entire range of sliding movement, and at least any one of an end in the sliding movement direction of the end surface of the first side wall and an end in the sliding movement direction of the first facing surface of the body has a first foreign substance elimination groove formed therein.