Operation device
AssigneeAlps Alpine Co., Ltd.
InventorsShinya Urayama, Yosuke Sasaki
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Abstract
An operation device includes a support portion, a moving body operated by an operator and movably supported by the support portion, a detection unit that detects movement of the moving body, and contact portions respectively provided on the support portion and the moving body and brought into contact with each other. The contact portion of one of the support portion and the moving body has an elastic region that is first brought into contact with the contact portion of the other when the contact portions are brought into contact with each other and a rigid region provided adjacent to the elastic region and continuously brought into contact with the contact portion of the other following the contact of the elastic region to regulate the movement of the moving body.
Claims9
An operation device comprising:
- a support portion;
- a moving body operated by an operator and movably supported by the support portion;
- a detection unit configured to detect movement of the moving body;
- and
- contact portions respectively provided on the support portion and the moving body, the contact portions being brought into contact with each other,
- wherein the contact portion of one of the support portion and the moving body has:
- an elastic region that is first brought into contact with the contact portion of the other of the support portion and the moving body when the contact portions are brought into contact with each other;
- and
- a rigid region provided adjacent to the elastic region and continuously brought into contact with the contact portion of the other of the support portion and the moving body following the contact of the elastic region to regulate the movement of the moving body, and
- the contact portions are provided on a substantially cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the moving body and on a substantially cylindrical inner peripheral surface of the support portion surrounding the moving body, respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.