Omron Corporation

Yohei Tsukanaka

Takeshi Miyasaka

Taiki Koyama

Kazushi Maeta

Yoshihisa Ishikawa

Satoru Nishimaki

Kohei Sugiyama

Kazuyuki Tsukimori

Kohei Fujio

Akihiro Ishii

Ryoji Shimizu

Takumi Fujihara

Makoto Wada

Hiroyasu Masago

A switch according to one or more embodiments may include a movable unit movable in response to an operation. A drive unit is drivable in response to movement of the movable unit. The switch may include an operation-linked unit movable in response to the movement of the movable unit and an operation follower unit spaced from the operation-linked unit to move in response to movement of the operation-linked unit with a magnetic force between the operation follower unit and the operation-linked unit. At least one of the operation-linked unit or the operation follower unit is magnetic. The drive unit is drivable in response to movement of the operation follower unit. The operation follower unit accommodated in a chamber is spaced from the operation-linked unit.

Switch

A switch may include: a movable member comprising a movable piece extending from a swing shaft and being swingable around the swing shaft; and a pressing member configured to press the movable piece while moving in response to a pushing operation, the movable piece swinging in response to pressing from the pressing member. The pressing member comprises a first contact portion configured to slide along an extending direction of the movable piece in a state of being in contact with the movable piece due to movement by the pushing operation, and a second contact portion configured to be in contact with the movable piece at a position different from a position where the first contact portion is in contact, due to the movement by the pushing operation, and the pressing member presses the movable piece by the first contact portion and the second contact portion in a contact state.

Push operation switch

A contact substrate is moved to cause a connection terminal and a connection terminal to slide on the contact substrate to change the contact state of the connection terminal and the connection terminal to a first slide contact and to a second slide contact. This switches the electrical connection/disconnection between the connection terminal and the connection terminal.

Contact switching mechanism and connector

Relay socket

A return mechanism is achieved which requires only a small force for operation. In one aspect of the present invention, a return mechanism () includes: a first spring () that acts between an operating section () and a working section (); and a second spring () that acts between the operating section () and a base (). A direction in which the second spring acts when the operating section () is in a first position is not parallel to a direction in which the second spring () acts when the operating section () is in a second position. A component which, of a force of the second spring, acts in a direction of motion of the operating section () is smaller when the operating section () is in the second position than in the first position.

Return mechanism, acceleration mechanism, power generator, transmitter, and switching arrangement

A power generation device including a rotation member rotatable by an operation force and a supporting member supporting the rotation member by attracting the rotation member with a magnetic force, the power generation device inducing a current to a coil by a magnetic flux of a magnet caused by rotation of the rotation member, and where, when the operation force is applied in a first state in which the rotation member is supported by the supporting member by being attracted to a first and second portions of the supporting member at respective first and second positions, the rotation member transitions to a second state by rotating with the first position of the supporting member as a first supporting point, and further transitions to a third state by rotating with a position of the supporting member different from the first position as a second supporting point.

Power generation device, transmission device, switching device

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Konan, Japan

Yohei Tsukanaka