Button apparatus and electronic equipment
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorOtoya Sakai
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Abstract
A button apparatus includes a push member on which a push operation can be performed, an elastic member of a substantially hollowed shape provided on a push direction side of the push member and configured to be elastically deformed on a side thereof which faces the push member in response to the push operation performed on the push member, a detector configured to detect the push operation performed on the push member, and a moving member supported on the elastic member and configured to move in the push direction in response to the push operation performed on the push member, and a side of the elastic member which faces the detector is elastically deformed as a result of the moving member moving in response to the push operation.
Claims14
A button apparatus comprising;
- a push member on which a push operation can be performed;
- an elastic member of a substantially hollowed shape provided on a push direction side of the push member and configured to be elastically deformed on a side thereof which faces the push member in response to the push operation performed on the push member;
- a detector configured to detect the push operation performed on the push member;
- a moving member supported on the elastic member and configured to move in the push direction in response to the push operation performed on the push member;
- and
- a board on which the detector is provided,
- wherein a side of the elastic member which faces the detector is elastically deformed as a result of the moving member moving in response to the push operation, and
- wherein the moving member is supported on the elastic member in such a manner as to be spaced apart from a plate surface of the board in a state in which the push operation is not performed on the push member and comprises an abutment portion configured to be brought into abutment with the plate surface of the board in response to the push operation performed on the push member.
A button apparatus comprising;
- a push member on which a push operation can be performed;
- an elastic member of a substantially hollowed shape provided on a push direction side of the push member and configured to be elastically deformed on a side thereof which faces the push member in response to the push operation performed on the push member;
- a detector configured to detect the push operation performed on the push member;
- and
- a moving member supported on the elastic member and configured to move in the push direction in response to the push operation performed on the push member,
- wherein a side of the elastic member which faces the detector is elastically deformed as a result of the moving member moving in response to the push operation,
- wherein the push member comprises a push surface on which the push operation is performed,
- wherein the button apparatus comprises a light guide having a surrounding portion surrounding a circumference of the push surface and configured to guide light from a light source towards the surrounding portion, and
- wherein the push member comprises a protruding portion protruding to an outside of the push surface and provided on a push direction side of the surrounding portion of the light guide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.