Sony Corporation

Yasushi Tsuji

Junichiro Misawa

Shuichi Chihara

Shingo Harada

Hitoshi Kubota

Yasunori Kimura

Masahiro Kobori

Akihito Kinoshita

Satoshi Suzuki

There is provided a keyboard device including a plurality of key tops that include magnets and are depressible, an opposing member which is provided to face the plurality of key tops and in which signal lines are wired, and a plurality of openings that is formed corresponding to positions of the magnets when the key tops are pressed in the opposing member. The signal lines are wired while avoiding the openings.

Keyboard device

There is provided a magnetic circuit including a first magnetic body configured to include a magnet and a yoke plate, and a second magnetic body. The yoke plate forms an opening space at a position facing the second magnetic body. The magnet is disposed in the opening space or at a position sandwiched between the yoke plates.

Magnetic circuit and key input device

There is provided a key input device including a supporting member including groove portions inclined with respect to a horizontal direction, a plurality of keytops each including a sliding portion which is fitted in a corresponding groove portion of the groove portions and slides along the groove portion, and a control member configured to cause two or more keytops of the plurality of keytops to slide obliquely downward along the groove portions.

Key input device

Computer

A communication device is configured to perform data communications with a communication target while being connected to an information processing apparatus, and includes a communication unit and a holding unit. The communication unit is provided with a connector connectable to a connection port of the information processing apparatus and performs data communications with the communication target under control of the information processing apparatus. The holding unit holds the communication target. The holding unit is attached to the communication unit so as to be movable to a position where the holding unit covers the connector in a stored state, and movable to a position where the holding unit exposes the connector in a used state.

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Nagano, Japan

Yasushi Tsuji