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US 7,688,969 B2Granted
Operation dial with rotary encoder
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorTakashi Ichihara
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Abstract
An electronic apparatus includes an operation dial, a board disposed at an inner position from the operation dial, a rotary encoder disposed on a surface of the board on the side opposite to the operation dial side, and a connection member which engages with an encoder shaft of the rotary encoder and is connected with the operation dial. The electronic apparatus is capable of reducing a projection of the operation dial from a surface of an operation panel and thus improving design of the electronic apparatus.
Claims5
An electronic apparatus, comprising:
- an operation dial;
- a board disposed at an inner position from the operation dial;
- a rotary encoder disposed on a surface of the board on a side opposite to the operation dial side, and having an encoder shaft that projects from the rotary encoder in a direction away from the operation dial;
- and
- a connection member disposed adjacent to the board on the side opposite to the operation dial and engaging with the encoder shaft of the rotary encoder and connected with the operation dial,
- wherein:
- the board includes a plurality of rotation slots formed therethrough;
- and
- the connection member includes a plurality of connection arms passing through the rotation slots and connected to the operation dial such that when the operation dial is rotated each connection arm moves within a respective rotation slot.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.