US Patent 7279648 Automotive combination switch

An automotive combination switch includes a housing having an opening through which a steering shaft passes, and a stork switch having a switch box, that is inserted and mounted in the housing and a manipulating rod protruding from the switching box. Snaps protruding from the outsides of walls of the switching box are snap-fitted into locking holes formed on walls of the housing. A claw of each snap is in elastical contact with a periphery of each locking hole by providing an elastic plate in the housing, and elastically contacting the elastic plate to a front of the switch box in the inserting direction.