Front panel system for a printed cirucit card with active/passive switching

A front panel system has an upper or lower endpiece (5) arranged in the upper or lower front corner area (3) of the printed circuit card (3). An upper or lower lever handle (19) arranged at the upper or lower endpiece serves to lever the printed circuit card in and out of its support. Means (25) are provided to fix the lever handles in their corresponding position when the printed circuit card is fully inserted into its support. A switching element (31) is integrated in the upper or lower endpiece. When the lever handle is in its fixed position, the switching element may be actuated by the lever handle, thus electrically disconnecting the printed circuit card. The invention has the advantage of allowing the switching element integrated in a lower or upper endpiece to be brought into an exactly definable position, so that the switching element may be permanently and reliably actuated by the lever handle even when the switching means of the switching element have only a small switching path.