Hosiden Corporation

Hitoshi Ao

Hayato Kondo

Takeshi Isoda

Naoki Toyota

Masato Shimizu

An electromagnetic actuator including an attractor to exert a magnetic attractive force in one side in a first direction, a frame, and a lever. The frame includes a frame body fixed to the attractor, and a support on an oblique-direction side relative to the attractor. The lever includes a fulcrum portion pivotally supported by the support, a first displaceable portion arranged on the other side in the second direction relative to the fulcrum portion and on the other side in the first direction relative to the attractor and magnetically attractable by the attractor to be displaced to the one side in the first direction, and a second displaceable portion arranged on the one side in the first direction relative to the fulcrum portion and on the one side in the second direction relative to the attractor and/or the frame and displaceable away from the attractor and/or the frame by the pivot of the lever.

Electromagnetic actuator and vibration application mechanism including the same

An electromagnetic actuator including a coil; a non-movable part constituted by a magnetic substance and disposed on one side relative to the coil; and a movable part including a permanent magnet on the other side relative to the coil. Applying a current to the coil alternately generates first and third driving forces to move the magnet and the movable part to one and the other sides in a first direction relative to the coil and the non-movable part. As the movable part moves from a neutral position to the one side in the first direction, a portion of the magnet positioned on the one side in the first direction relative to the first end of the first non-movable part gradually enlarges and is magnetically attracted toward the non-movable part. As the movable part moves from the neutral position to the other side in the first direction, a portion of the magnet positioned on the other side in the first direction relative to the second end of the first non-movable part gradually enlarges and is magnetically attracted toward the non-movable part.

Electromagnetic actuator and vibration generator including the same

A touch sensing device including a housing, a movable part, a covering, and a lifting actuator. The movable part is relatively movable within an opening of the housing relative to an edge portion of the opening, between first and second heights. The covering includes a flexible layer covering at least the edge portion and the movable part. The flexible layer includes first and second portions directly or indirectly fixed to the edge portion and to the movable part, respectively. The flexible layer can partly flex and stretch or partly shrink in accordance with a relative movement of the second portion relative to the first portion, from a third height to a fourth height, or vice versa. The lifting actuator can move the movable part or the edge portion to relatively move the movable part, from the first height to the second height, or vice versa, relative to the edge portion.

Touch sensing device

An input device includes a plate-like operation panel in which a touch sensor is placed. The plate-like operation panel has a touch surface to be touch-operated by an operator, a support that supports the operation panel to a printed circuit board in a manner that the operation panel is displaceable in one axial direction, which extends along the touch surface, and an actuator that vibrates the operation panel in the one axial direction. The support is configured by metal plate springs disposed respectively in four places between the printed circuit board and one of the operation panel and a metal fitting fixed to the operation panel. The plate springs each have a spring property only in the one axial direction.

Input device

A touch sensing device including a vibratable plate, a touch sensor, a vibration generator including a plunger, an operation face, an opposed part opposed to the vibratable plate in a first direction, and a cushioning member. The plunger is configured to reciprocate in the first direction so as to vibrate the vibratable plate in the first direction. The operation face is to be touched by a detection object for inputting to operate the touch sensing device, and is vibratable as a result of vibration of the vibratable plate. The cushioning member is interposed between the opposed part and the vibratable plate in the first direction. The cushioning member is configured to reduce an amount of displacement in the first direction of the vibratable plate arising from the vibration in the first direction such that the amount is smaller than an amount of movement in the first direction of the plunger.

A touch sensing device including an panel including an operation face, a touch sensor fixed to the panel, a circuit board being spaced from the opposite face opposite to the operation face of the panel, an electronic component on a first face of the board, an opposing part in opposing spaced relation to a second face of the board, a coupling member coupling the panel to the board on an outer side relative to the touch sensor and the electronic component, and a switch between the second face of the board and the opposing part. An optical path extends from the electronic component through the touch sensor and the panel. The board relatively approaches the opposing part in accordance with the forward movement of the panel and relatively moves away from the opposing part in accordance with the backward movement of the panel. The switch produces or changes an output signal in accordance with the approach of the board.

The present invention provides a connector including a body having insulation properties and a terminal group. The terminal group includes a pair of first signal terminals, a second signal terminal, and a third terminal that are arrayed in a row along a first direction in the body. The first signal terminals are adjacent to each other in the first direction. The third terminal is disposed between one of the first signal terminals and the second signal terminal. The third terminal includes a shielding portion extending in a direction crossing the first direction.

Connector and signal line structure

The invention provides a connector including first and second contacts having substantially the same overall length. The first and second contacts each include a contact portion, a first straight portion extending in a first direction, a first bent portion bent in a direction including a second direction, an intermediate portion, a second bent portion bent in a direction including a third direction, a second straight portion extending in the direction including the third direction, and a tail. In the second contact, the contact portion is spaced apart in the third direction from the contact portion of the first contact, the first straight portion has a larger length than the first straight portion of the first contact, the second straight portion has a smaller length than the second straight portion of the first contact, and the tail is spaced apart in the first direction from the tail of the first contact.

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