Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Masahito Hisada

Makoto Kobayashi

Yoshinori Takano

Satoshi Ogawa

Yoshiyuki Aoki

Yusuke Kumakiri

Nobuhiko Kitagawa

Koichi Nishimura

A multidirectional operating device includes an operational knob including a knob body and plural ribs, and a bezel portion disposed around a rotational axis of the operational knob. The bezel portion includes plural limiting portions formed standing from a top surface side so as to limit the inclination operation of the operational knob by being opposite to a contact surface of the ribs when the operational knob is located at a neutral position, and plural permitting portions arranged between the limiting portions so as to permit the inclination operation of the operational knob while avoiding a contact with the contact surface of the ribs when the operational knob is located at an operational position that allows the inclination operation by being rotated from the neutral position to a right or left position.

Multidirectional operating device

A switch device includes an operation part, a first push mechanism that, by a rotation operation of the operation part, selects and activates a first push switch part, a second push mechanism that, by a tilt operation of the operation part, activates a second push switch part, a circuit board including the first push switch part and the second push switch part mounted thereto, and a contact rubber interposed between the circuit board and the first and second push mechanisms. The contact rubber includes contacts corresponding to the first push switch part and the second push switch part and is configured such that the contacts contact with or separate from the corresponding switch parts by a movement of the first push mechanism and the second push mechanism. The contact rubber is formed so as to cover an entire upper surface of the circuit board.

Switch device

A switch device includes a lever and a pusher. The pusher includes a surface that contacts the lever. When force is applied from the lever to the pusher, an inclined surface of the pusher produces a force that moves the pusher from a one-side pushing position to a two-side pushing position. This allows for a user to apply a smaller force to the lever in order to move the pusher from the one-side pushing position to the two-side pushing position and thereby push two switch units.

A switch device includes a lever. A switch body is arranged in the lever. The switch body supports the lever in a tiltable manner. At least one pusher is moved by contact with the lever when the lever is tilted. At least one switch unit is pushed when the pusher moves. A resiliently deformable sealing member is arranged between the lever and the switch body where air including dust may enter. The sealing member is separated from a location where the pusher comes into contact with the lever, and the sealing member is resiliently deformed when the lever is tilted.

An operating device includes a dial member that has a first engaging portion provided on a peripheral portion thereof, a rotated body that has a hollow portion at a center portion thereof and a second engaging portion which is engaged with the first engaging portion of the dial member, the second engaging portion being provided on a peripheral portion of the rotated body, and an electric equipment member that is inserted into the hollow portion of the rotated body. A rotation of the dial member is transmitted to the rotated body through an engagement of the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion.

Operating device

An operating device includes a dial that has a first engagement portion, a rotational body that is formed in an annular shape, and has a second engagement portion so as to be engaged with the first engagement portion of the dial. Rotation of the dial is transmitted to the rotational body through an engagement of the first and second engagement portions. The operating device also includes gear teeth that are provided on an inner circumferential portion of the rotational body, a gear that is meshed with the gear teeth and is rotated in an inner space of the rotational body, and a rotation response member that is directly coupled to a rotation shaft of the gear and varies in accordance with a rotation angle of the dial.

An operation unit includes a case and an operation member molded integrally through injection molding. The operation member includes an outer surface and a slide portion supported by the case. The slide portion is slidable and movable relative to the case. The operation member further includes a knob operated by an operator, a parting line formed continuously from the slide portion to the knob along the outer surface, and a ridge line formed on the outer surface. At least part of the parting line is formed along the ridge line.

Operation unit

A dial device includes a body, a first dial knob supported to the body so as to rotate around a predetermined axis, a second dial knob supported to the body so as to rotate around the predetermined axis, and the second dial knob being provided so as to surround the first dial knob, a gear which rotates in response to a rotation of the second dial knob, and is provided on the body, and a pulley unit which includes a first pulley having a connection portion and a second pulley having a gear portion, the second pulley being arranged coaxially with the first pulley. The connection portion of the first pulley is connected to the first dial knob and the gear portion of the second pulley is meshed with the gear in a state that the pulley unit is attached to the body.

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Aichi, Japan

Masahito Hisada