Input device
AssigneeAlps Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsHajime Osako, Ryuichi Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Tagawa
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Abstract
An input device includes: a switch unit that has a fixed contact and a movable contact placed so as to be movable away from and toward the fixed contact; a rubber member provided so as to be elastically deformable, the rubber member pressing the movable contact; and a slide member placed so as to be movable so that the slide member can press the rubber member. The rubber member has a first load generating part, which presses the movable contact, and a plurality of load adjusting parts disposed so as to enclose the first load generating part. The slide member has a first pressing part, which presses the first load generating part, and a plurality of second pressing parts, which press the plurality of load adjusting parts.
Claims5
An input device comprising:
- a switch unit that has a fixed contact and a movable contact, the movable contact movable away from and toward the fixed contact;
- an elastically deformable rubber member, the rubber member pressing the movable contact;
- and
- a slide member placed so as to be movable so that the slide member is capable of pressing the rubber member;
- wherein:
- the rubber member has a first load generating part, which presses the movable contact, and a plurality of load adjusting parts disposed so as to enclose the first load generating part, and
- the slide member has a first pressing part, which presses the first load generating part, and a plurality of second pressing parts, which press the plurality of load adjusting parts, wherein the load adjusting parts comprise a thin stereoscopic shape having a side wall in a cylindrical shape;
- and
- part of the side wall is open toward the first load generating part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.