Click module and operation switch
AssigneeOmron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsKotaro Wada, Yasuhide Tanaka, Takashi Nose, Hidetoshi Yoshikawa
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Abstract
A click module which gives a feeling of click when an operation knob which is tiltably and pivotally supported on a casing of an operation switch is tiltably operated has a click face on which a crest portion or a valley portion is formed, a click element which slides on the click face, and a resilient member which biases the click element to a click face side. The click module is detachably mounted on the casing. The click element and the click face slide relative to each other in an interlocking manner with a tilting operation of the operation knob.
Claims7
A click module which gives a feeling of click when an operation knob which is tiltably and pivotally supported on a casing of an operation switch is tiltably operated, the click module comprising:
- a click face on which a crest portion or a valley portion is formed;
- a click element which slides on the click face;
- and a resilient member which biases the click element to a click face side,
- wherein the click module is detachably mounted on the casing,
- wherein the click element and the click face slide relative to each other in an interlocking manner with a tilting operation of the operation knob,
- wherein the click module further comprises:
- a holding member detachably mounted on the casing, in which a hole portion that allows the insertion of the resilient member on a deep side thereof and the insertion of the click element on an opening side thereof is formed;
- and
- an inclination member mounted on a periphery of the holding member, on which the click face is formed such that the click face faces the hole portion in an opposed manner, and
- wherein the inclination member makes the click face slide relative to the click element by inclining in an interlocking manner with the operation knob.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.