Button apparatus and electronic equipment
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorOtoya SAKAI
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Abstract
A button apparatus comprises 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.
Claims16
A switch apparatus comprising:
- a switch member including a main body on which a switch operation can be performed and a protruding portion which protrudes outwards from a side edge portion of the main body;
- a light source;
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- a light guide surrounding the switch member;
- wherein the light guide includes a first surface on which light from the light source is incident, a second surface which emits the light through an interior of the light guide and a third surface which covers at least part of the protruding portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.