Electronic apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHidetoshi Kei
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Abstract
An electronic apparatus includes an operation member which can be rotated and operated in two directions from a neutral position, a holding member configured to rotatably hold the operation member, a rotation limiting member configured to limit a rotational range of the operation member by abutting the operation member, an elastic member having a first portion which is fixed to the holding member and a second portion which engages with a part of the operation member and configured to elastically deform by rotating the operation member from the neutral position, and an abutment member configured to abut the second portion of the elastic member before the rotation limiting member limits the rotational range of the operation member.
Claims9
An electronic apparatus, comprising:
- an operation member which can be rotated and operated in two directions from a neutral position;
- a holding member configured to rotatably hold the operation member;
- a fixed member fixed to the operation member so that the holding member is sandwiched between the fixed member and the operation member;
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- an elastic member having a first portion which is fixed to the holding member and a second portion which engages with the fixed member
- wherein a projection portion is formed on the fixed member,
- wherein a part of the second portion surrounds a periphery of the projection portion, and
- wherein in case when the operation member is rotated from the neutral position, the second portion abuts an abutment part which is formed on the holding member so that the projection portion does not contact the abutment part.
An electronic apparatus, comprising:
- an operation member which can be rotated and operated in two directions from a neutral position;
- a spring member configured to urge the operation member toward the neutral position;
- a holding member configured to rotatably hold the operation member;
- a rotation limiting member configured to limit a rotational range of the operation member by abutting the operation member;
- an elastic member having a first portion which is fixed to the holding member and a second portion which engages with the operation member,
- wherein when the operation member is rotated from the neutral position, the second portion abuts an abutment part formed on the holding member before the rotation limiting member limits the rotational range of the operation member, and
- wherein the elastic member is configured to be elastically deformed by a smaller elastic modulus than a spring member when the operation member is in the neutral position, and be elastically deformed by a larger elastic modulus than the spring member when the rotation limiting member limits the rotational range of the operation member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.