Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multidirectional input device
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Application No.: US15500364Application Date: 2015-09-02
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Publication No.: US10256816B2Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Tatsuya Miyazaki , Yosuke Ohashi
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2014-179876 20140904; JP2014-209577 20141014
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/004449 WO 20150902
- International Announcement: WO2016/035331 WO 20160310
- Main IPC: H01H25/00
- IPC: H01H25/00 ; H03K17/96 ; G05G1/02 ; H03H9/17 ; H03K17/968

Abstract:
A multidirectional input device includes a case, and a movable body that is restrained from rotating relative to the case, disposed so as to face the case, and mounted on the case so as to be movable in directions with a predetermined neutral position as a base point. The multidirectional input device further includes a first position detector that outputs a first signal in response to a position of the movable body, and a cam part formed on one of a surface, facing the case, of the movable body, and a surface, facing the movable body, of the case. The multidirectional input device further includes a restraint member having a tip which is in elastic contact with the cam part to urge the movable body to the neutral position, and a second position detector that outputs a second signal in response to a position of the restraint member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170222645A1 MULTIDIRECTIONAL INPUT DEVICE Public/Granted day:2017-08-03
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