Multi-directional switching device capable of producing good feeling of click
AssigneeAlps Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorKazunori Gotoh
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Abstract
A multi-directional switching device having: a case; a switch housed in the case; one operating member capable of inclining in multi-directions, for operating the switch by means of an inclining operation in each of the directions; a first rubber dome to be operated by means of an inclining operation of the operating member; and a second rubber dome arranged in the vicinity of the first rubber dome, wherein a movable distance of the second rubber dome by the inclining operation of the operating member is made longer than that of the first rubber dome.
Claims10
A multi-directional switching device comprising:
- a case;
- a plurality of switches housed within the case;
- one operating member supported by the case so as to be able to incline in multi-directions, the operating member to operate any of the switches by an inclining operation in respective directions;
- a plurality of first rubber domes, any two of which are to be operated by inclining operations of the operating member in the respective directions;
- and a plurality of second rubber domes arranged in a vicinity of each of the first rubber domes any of which is to be operated concurrently with any two of the first rubber domes, wherein the switching member is arranged such that during the inclining operation of the operating member, the first rubber domes and the second rubber domes buckle, whereby a feeling of click is produced in the operating member, and wherein a movable distance of the second rubber domes is longer than that of the first rubber domes.
A multi-directional switching device comprising:
- a case;
- a switch housed within the case;
- one operating member inclinable in multi-directions to operate the switch by an inclining operation in each of the directions;
- and a rubber dome to be operated by the inclining operation of the operating member,
- wherein a seat member is disposed between the operating member and the rubber dome, and wherein during the inclining operation of the operating member, the seat member performs a sliding operation between:
- one of the operating member and the seat member and between the rubber dome and the seat member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.