Input apparatus
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorShinsuke Hisatsugu
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Abstract
An input apparatus includes an input device, a support device, a reaction force generator and an adjustment structure. The reaction force generator includes a magnetic pole formation part, a coil, and a magnetic flux induction part, and that exerts electromagnetic force, which is generated by an application of current to the coil, on the input device as operation reaction force in a direction along the operation plane. The adjustment structure causes pressing force to increase or decrease in a direction where the input device intersects the operation plane by adjusting a total of magnetic attraction force obtained by the magnetic pole formation part attracting the magnetic flux induction part.
Claims14
An input apparatus comprising:
- an input device that receives an input of operation force in a direction along an operation plane;
- a support device that supports the input device to enable the input device to move along the operation plane through the input of the operation force;
- a reaction force generator that includes:
- a magnetic pole formation part that forms a magnetic pole;
- a coil through which a magnetic flux generated by the magnetic pole formation part flows;
- a magnetic flux induction part that inducts the magnetic flux generated by the magnetic pole formation part through the coil, and that exerts electromagnetic force, which is generated by an application of current to the coil, on the input device as operation reaction force in the direction along the operation plane;
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- an adjustment structure that increases or decreases pressing force pressing the support device in a direction where the input device intersects the operation plane by adjusting a total of magnetic attraction force, which is obtained by the magnetic pole formation part attracting the magnetic flux induction part,
- wherein the adjustment structure adjusts a position of the magnetic pole formation part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.