Patent ID: 8124896

Claim:
An electrical sliding contact switch, comprising: a housing; a common contact body; at least one selective contact body having a contact surface, said common contact body and said at least one selective contact body being in a form of flat disk-shaped bodies arranged in a row such that wide sides thereof collectively lie on a common plane; a sliding area that comprises an electrically insulating material and that is adjacent to said contact surface of said selective contact body; a contactor having a contact which is in continuous electrically conducting connection with said common contact body and has at least one sliding contact that is in electrically conducting connection with said selective contact body or that touches said sliding area depending on a positioning thereof when moved; and an actuating member that, upon actuation thereof, slidingly moves said at least one sliding contact of said contactor on a sliding path from said contact surface of said selective contact body into said sliding area and/or out of said sliding area to said contact surface of said selective contact body, zones being formed in said sliding path that are not contacted by said sliding contact when said sliding contact of said contactor transits the sliding area.