Operating Device
AssigneeSony Computer Entertainment Inc.
InventorAki Yoguchi
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Abstract
An operating device has an operating shaft, engagement protrusions, and a movable body. The movable body can rotate relative to the operating shaft. The movable body engages with the engagement protrusions at positions separate from its rotation center. The movable body rotates relative to the operating shaft through the engagement with the engagement protrusions according to the translation of the operating shaft. A base abuts against the movable body in the rotational direction of this movable body and receives a force due to the movement of the operating shaft from the movable body. Sensors detect the force acting on the base. According to this, an operating device having a novel structure allowing detection of the translation of the operating shaft is implemented.
Claims12
An operating device comprising:
- an operating shaft;
- an engagement portion located separately from shaft center of the operating shaft;
- a movable body that is capable of rotation relative to the operating shaft in circumferential direction of the operating shaft and engages with the engagement portion, the movable body rotating relative to the operating shaft through engagement with the engagement portion according to translation of the operating shaft in a radial direction of the operating shaft;
- a base that abuts against the movable body in rotational direction of the movable body and receives a force due to movement of the operating shaft from the movable body;
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- a sensor that detects a force acting on the base.
An operating device comprising:
- an operating shaft capable of first motion that is motion in axial direction and second motion that is motion in a plane perpendicular to the axial direction;
- at least one spring that is a spring that receives motion of the operating shaft to be elastically deformed, the at least one spring generating an elastic force of a first direction that is the axial direction of the operating shaft according to the first motion and generating an elastic force of a second direction that is a direction along the plane perpendicular to the axial direction according to the second motion;
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- a sensor that detects a force according to the elastic force of the first direction and a force according to the elastic force of the second direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.