Minebea Company, Limited

Minebea Mitsumi Inc.

Yasutoshi Obata

Kiyoshi Omori

Akira Muto

Hiroyuki Ohmae

Yohei Ishii

Yu Imai

Takahiro Wakai

Takemasa Tsuchiya

Masaaki Sato

A flat switch is provided that prevents the flat switch from protruding and thereby causing a poor appearance even in a case where it is required to install a switch box so that an end part on an opening side of the switch box is not positioned on a predetermined distance or deeper side with respect to an appearance surface that is a surface of a wall. A flat switch () of the present invention is a flat switch () that is installed in a switch box () having a bottom part () and a vertical wall part () which is provided along an outer periphery of the bottom part (). The switch box () is installed so that, with respect to an appearance surface that is a front surface of a wall, a peripheral edge part (A) is not positioned on a predetermined distance or deeper side in a depth direction of the wall from the appearance surface. The flat switch () includes a sensor unit () whose thickest part in a direction from the peripheral edge part (A) of the switch box () to the bottom part () is thicker than a predetermined distance in a state of being installed in the switch box and whose outer shape is smaller than an inner shape of the peripheral edge part (A) of the switch box ().

Flat switch

Provided is a switch unit that drastically reduces the effort required to assemble a vending machine. The switch unit includes: a commodity selection part; an illumination part; a price display part; and a control part, wherein the switch unit is communicatively connected to at least one slave switch unit, and the control part includes: a position determination part configured to determine a relative position of the slave switch unit to the switch unit; and a code impartment part configured to impart a code to each of the keys of each of the switch unit and the slave switch unit on the basis of the determined relative position.

Switch unit and vending machine

There is provided a detection device including: a detection electrode that is arranged at a position on an arrangement plane near a tubular body; a drive electrode that is arranged on the arrangement plane; and a controller configured to generate lines of electric force between the detection electrode and the drive electrode and to detect a state of the tubular body by detecting lines of electric force entering the detection electrode.

Detection device

An input apparatus including a layered body is provided. The layered body includes an electrostatic capacity type touch sensor, a character and symbol printed film, on which characters or symbols are printed, and a surface light emitting layer configured to illuminate the character and symbol printed film. The character and symbol printed film is arranged on an upper surface side of the surface light emitting layer, the touch sensor is arranged on a lower surface side of the surface light emitting layer, and an input operation surface that is positioned at an uppermost surface is flat.

Input apparatus

There is provided a keyboard device with a lamination body, the lamination body comprising: a translucent touch panel; a symbol printing film on which arbitrary symbols are printed; a surface emission layer that illuminates the symbol printing film, wherein the touch panel is arranged on an upper surface side of the symbol printing film, the surface emission layer is arranged on a lower surface side of the symbol printing film, and an input operation surface that is placed on the outermost surface of the keyboard device is flat.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yasutoshi Obata