Abstract: A sliding element fixing structure for an electrical component comprising a sliding element formed of a metallic plate having tongues found in its base segment and a holding member to which the sliding element is fixed. The holding member has a flat surface and a bulged-out segment positioned and arranged below the flat surface. The base segment of the sliding element is mounted on the flat surface of the holding member with the end segments of the tongues engaging the lower part of the bulged-out segment which fixes the sliding element to the holding member.

Abstract: A resistor pattern of an insulating substrate is printed with reference to a first contact portion and a second contact portion, and the insulating substrate is attached to a holder such the first and second contact portions of the insulating substrate are brought into contact with second contact portions of the holder to position the insulating substrate. Therefore, an error between the relative positions of a slider piece and a resistor pattern is decreased, and variations in resistance change characteristic are decreased.

Abstract: An electrical part including a step provided at a housing-facing side of an operating portion of an operating shaft, which protrudes externally from the housing, with the outside diameter of the step being smaller than the outside diameter of the operating portion. Thus, the load, produced when an operating member is being caulked to an end of the operating shaft, can be exerted on a flange surface at the step, so that even when the operating member is caulked to the operating shaft, the performance of the electrical part is not affected. Such an electrical part has been constructed in view of a conventional problem described below. When an attempt is being made to caulk an operating member to an operating shaft incorporated in a housing of a rotary sensor, or electrical part, to form a conventional rotary sensor.