Electronic apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoichi OSADA
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Abstract
Electronic apparatus that can be disposed in a small space and allows multidirectional input without impairment of a click feeling. A cross key including a plurality of pins is elastically held by an operating member holding mat including a plurality of holes into which the respective pins are insertable. An analog switch overlapped on the operating member holding mat outputs a signal when one of the pins comes into direct contact with the analog switch in response to operation of the cross key. A metallic dome sheet overlapped on the analog switch outputs a signal when one of the pins comes into contact with the metallic dome sheet via the analog switch in response to operation of the cross key. The metallic dome sheet outputs a signal after the analog switch outputs a signal.
Claims6
An electronic apparatus comprising:
- an operating member including a plurality of pins;
- a holding member that elastically holds said operating member, said holding member including a plurality of holes into which respective ones of the plurality of pins is insertable;
- a first switch that is overlapped on said holding member and outputs a signal when one of the plurality of pins comes into direct contact with said first switch in response to operation of said operating member;
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- a second switch that is overlapped on said first switch and outputs a signal when one of the plurality of pins comes into contact with said second switch via said first switch in response to operation of said operating member, said second switch outputting a signal after said first switch outputs a signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.