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A printed circuit board mountable switch includes a insulative body having a plurality of leads extending out of the body, the leads being formed into two parallel and opposed rows with fixed ends of the leads being spaced apart and facing each other on the floor of the body. A slide switch element

A printed circuit board mountable switch includes a insulative body having a plurality of leads extending out of the body, the leads being formed into two parallel and opposed rows with fixed ends of the leads being spaced apart and facing each other on the floor of the body. A slide switch element includes a bow shaped element having first and second contact elements adjacent to respective first and second fixed ends of the leads. The switch element is moveable between a first position where the switch element bridges between the associated first and second lead fixed ends, to a position where the second contact portion only, is in contact with the second fixed end of the lead. The housing body including integrally molded ramps or cams which flank the width of the first and second fixed ends and at least partially extend therebetween. The slide switch element includes at the first contact end, a T-shaped shunt element which includes tabs complementary with the two ramps, such that upon sliding movement of the slide element, the first contact end is lifted vertically off of the floor of the housing.

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A switch configured as an integrated circuit package including a housing body comprised of an insulating material with a plurality of leads extending from the body, the leads being arranged in first and second opposed rows with fixed ends of the leads being in a spaced apart and facing relation and

A switch configured as an integrated circuit package including a housing body comprised of an insulating material with a plurality of leads extending from the body, the leads being arranged in first and second opposed rows with fixed ends of the leads being in a spaced apart and facing relation and disposed in a generally horizontal plane on a floor of the housing body, each pair of opposed fixed ends being in alignment with an associated slide switch element, where each slide switch element comprises a bow shaped element with first and second contact portions at ends of the bow adjacent to respective first and second fixed ends of the leads, each of the slide switch elements being moveable between a first position where two opposed fixed ends are commoned by the first and second contact portions of the respective slide switch element bridging between the first and second fixed ends, to a second position where the contact portions only contact the second said fixed end, thereby breaking the continuity between the first and second fixed ends, the switch being characterized in that: the housing body includes two ramp elements which extend at least partially between, and flank the widths of, the first and second fixed ends of the leads, and in that each slide switch element includes two integral tabs adjacent to the first contact portion which engage the two ramp elements, which, upon movement of each of the slide switch elements, cause the tabs to slide up the ramp elements, thereby lifting the first contact portions of the slide switch elements vertically away from the floor of the body.