About NKK Switches
NKK Switches of America Inc., is a leading designer and producer of electromechanical switches throughout the industrialized world. Founded in 1951, the Company designs a full range of innovative switches and presently holds more than 500 patents.
Offering 76 different switch families and more than 3,027,000 part numbers, NKK Switches provides comprehensive manufacturing, sales and warehousing from its U.S. headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Company equips manufacturers worldwide with illuminated, toggle, rocker, pushbutton, slide, rotary, DIP rotary, keypad and keylock switches. Additionally, NKK Switches offers one of the industry's most extensive selections of illuminated, process sealed, miniature, specialty and surface mount switches.
During the last 50 years, Nihon Kaiheiki, NKK Switches' parent company, has been at the forefront of innovation and the Company's inventive designs have set world standards in the industry. In 1980, NKK completed the development of the unique Sliding Twin Crossbar (STC) contact mechanism that provides superior reliability in logic level circuits.
Initially utilized in a family of washable super-subminiature switches, the STC patented design combined with washable construction has been incorporated in more than 35 percent of NKK Switches' product offerings since 1980.
NKK Switches maintains a complete network of qualified representatives and distributors throughout the United States, Canada, Central and South America, Europe and Asia. In keeping with NKK Switches' commitment to providing the highest quality, most reliable switches in the market, the Company provides unprecedented service to its customers. |