Operating Device
AssigneeSony Computer Entertainment Inc.
InventorKeiji Togawa
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Abstract
An operating device includes an operating shaft, a movable body that supports the operating shaft, and a base body. The base body includes a contact surface that is in contact with the movable body so as to receive, from the movable body, forces along the plane vertical to the axial direction of the operating shaft. Further, the operating device includes a plurality of sensors adapted to detect forces acting on the base body. The operating device allows the motion of the operating shaft on the plane vertical to the axial direction of the operating shaft and the detection of the motion.
Claims14
An operating device comprising:
- an operating shaft;
- a movable body adapted to hold the operating shaft;
- and
- a base body that is opposed to the movable body in the axial direction of the operating shaft, the base body including a portion that is in contact with the movable body, supports the movable body in such a manner as to permit the operating shaft to move on a plane vertical to the operating shaft, and receives forces in directions along the plane vertical to the operating shaft resulting from the motion of the operating shaft;
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- sensors adapted to detect the forces acting on the base body.
An operating device comprising:
- an operating shaft;
- a movable body that holds the operating shaft and can relatively move in a first direction relative to the operating shaft;
- an elastic body that can elastically deform in the first direction and is elastically deformed by the movable body moving in the first direction;
- a contact section that is in contact with the movable body to allow the movable body to move in the first direction in response to the motion of the operating shaft in a second direction;
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- sensors adapted to detect a force appropriate to the elastic force of the elastic body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.