US 7,579,568 B2
Switch for vehicle
Yoshiyuki Nakade, Fukui (Japan)
Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Oct. 10, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/869,982.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-307439 (JP), filed on Nov. 14, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2008/0110734 A1, May 15, 2008
Int. Cl. H01H 13/12 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 200—531  [200/341] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A switch for a vehicle comprising:
a case with a top-open box shape;
a plurality of fixed contacts disposed in the case;
an actuating unit disposed in the case so as to be movable in a vertical direction; and
a movable contact that makes contact with the fixed contacts or goes away from the fixed contacts according to vertical movement of the actuating unit,
wherein, a terminal section and a contact section of the fixed contacts are separately formed and the terminal section and the contact section are connected via a coil made of a conductive metal wire.