Lever switch device
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorHideki Nishinakama
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Abstract
A lever switch device includes a shaft member, a rotary operation member, a push switch, and a flexible board. The flexible board has a first board part, a first wiring part connected to the first board part, a second board part, a second wiring part connected to the second board part, and an integrated wiring part. The first board part has a fixed contact. A movable contact of the rotary operation member comes into contact with and separates from the fixed contact in response to a positional shift of the rotary operation member. The second board part receives a signal output from the push switch. The integrated wiring part is at a position away from the first board part and the second board part, and a part of the first wiring part and a part of the second wiring part are integrated in the integrated wiring part.
Claims8
A lever switch device comprising:
- a shaft member including a peripheral part, a first end, and a second end, the shaft member extending in an axial direction passing through the first end and the second end;
- a rotary operation member provided outside the shaft member at a position between the first end and the second end, the rotary operation member being capable of a rotating operation around the shaft member and having a movable contact;
- a push switch attached to the second end of the shaft member;
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- a flexible board including a plurality of wirings, the plurality of wirings transmitting a signal generated in response to a positional shift of the rotary operation member and a signal output from the push switch,
- wherein the plurality of wirings includes a first group of wirings and a second group of wirings different from the first group of wirings, and
- the flexible board includes:
- a first board part having a fixed contact, the movable contact coming into contact with or separating from the fixed contact in response to the positional shift of the rotary operation member,
- a first wiring part including the first group of wirings and connected to the first board part,
- a second board part configured to receive the signal output from the push switch,
- a second wiring part including the second group of wirings and connected to the second board part, and
- an integrated wiring part located at a position away from the first board part and the second board part, a part of the first wiring part and a part of the second wiring part being integrated in integrated wiring part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.