Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Hideto Sadamori

Takumi Nishimoto

Yoshinobu Nakagawa

Setsuo Takesako

Jun Sato

Akira Matsumoto

Seung Hai Hwang

Kazumine Koshi

Kazuto Kume

Yu Hasegawa

Shinzo Komoto

Seung Bo Lee

An input device is configured to provide input to various electronic devices. The input device includes: a manipulation unit; a substrate; a tilting mechanism; and a detector. The manipulation unit includes a handle which is rotatable around a rotation axis and is pressed along the rotation axis, and outputs a first signal corresponding to rotation of the handle and a second signal corresponding to pressing of the handle. The tilting mechanism includes a cylindrical shaft fixed to the substrate, and a bearing fixed to the body, wherein the shaft is perpendicular to the rotation axis, and the tilting mechanism allows the substrate to swing around the shaft between a first manipulation position and a second manipulation position. The detector is disposed on the surface of the substrate facing the body, and outputs a third signal when the substrate is in the second manipulation position.

Input device

A rotationally-operated input device includes the following elements: (a) a magnetized cylindrical rotary magnet; (b) an operating shaft having the rotary magnet inserted and held thereon; (c) an upper case and a lower case for sandwiching the operating shaft therebetween rotatably; (d) an insulating substrate for fixing and holding the lower case; (e) a detection element mounted on the insulating substrate, for detecting rotation of the rotary magnet in a non-contact manner; and (f) a fixed magnet for generating an attractive and repulsive force between the fixed magnet and the rotary magnet. This structure allows detection of a rotation state of the operating shaft and provides click-feeling at rotating operation, in a non-contact manner. Thus a long-life small rotationally-operated input device can be provided.

Rotationally-operated input device

An antenna device is provided that is preferably used for various wireless devices such as television receivers and the like. An antenna rod can be stopped at a predetermined angle position via a hinge mechanism. The antenna device includes a hinge mechanism by which a biasing force of a coil spring stored in an antenna base causes an upper end of a circular-cylindrical projection of an abutting member to be abutted with an end face of a projection section of an intermediate member fixed to a lower part or antenna rod, thereby stopping the antenna rod at a predetermined angle position. When the antenna rod is moved to a different angle position, the abutting member has a biased movement in the downward direction. This can suppress the wear of the circular-cylindrical projection.

Antenna device

A first antenna element is formed by a press-fitting first member and a second member to each other, and a second antenna element is formed by press-fitting a first member and a second member to each other. Respective members are fixed to a base by riveting, thereby achieving the antenna. This structure allows determining arbitrarily splitting positions and shapes of members of the first antenna element and the members of the second antenna element. The antenna can be obtained at an inexpensive cost even if an external appearance of the antenna is specified to be an irregular shape.

Antenna

An antenna device has a first antenna element supporting a low frequency band and a second antenna element supporting a high frequency band. The first antenna element and the second antenna element are disposed so as to face to each other, on the wiring board of a radio device, and at positions separated from each other by a predetermined distance. The distance between the first antenna element and the ground of wiring board is longer than the distance between the second antenna element and the ground of the wiring board. The antenna device supports two frequency bands with the first antenna element and the second antenna element.

An antenna providing easy and effective mounting procedures onto a wireless device for mobile communications and highly reliable electrical connections. The antenna contains insulating resin-made corethat is generally formed into a rectangular parallelepiped, and metallic thin-plate antenna elementfrom which feeding terminalA and joint sectionsC are extended. Antenna elementis disposed on top surfaceF, side surfaceB, and bottom surfaceG of core. Antenna elementis then fixed to coreby caulking at caulking projectionsA formed on the top surface of core. Feeding terminalA is bent to have L-shaped tipB on side surfaceD; similarly, joint sectionsC are bent to have L-shaped tipsD on side surfacesC andE. These tips are bent at the same level according to the thickness of a wiring board to be soldered.

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Okayama, Japan

Hideto Sadamori