Trigger switch
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorsTakumi Fujihara, Koichi Furusawa, Taiki Koyama
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Abstract
A trigger switch according to one or more embodiments may include a pressure sensor such as a pressure sensitive element that detects a depressed amount of a trigger in response to a depressing operation on the trigger. A trigger switch may include a trigger movable in response to a depressing operation, an urging member including a first end in contact with the trigger and a second end and urging the trigger in a direction opposite to a depressing direction in which the trigger is depressed, an elastic member in contact with the second end of the urging member, and a pressure sensor in contact with the elastic member to detect pressure applied from the elastic member.
Claims5
A trigger switch, comprising:
- a trigger movable in response to a depressing operation;
- an urging member including a first end in contact with the trigger and a second end, the urging member urging the trigger in a direction opposite to a depressing direction in which the trigger is depressed;
- an elastic member in direct contact with the second end of the urging member;
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- a pressure sensor in contact with the elastic member to detect a depressed amount of the trigger as an amount of pressure applied to the trigger during the depressing operation from contact with the elastic member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.