Sony Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Yusuke Morinishi

Tomonori Hasegawa

Hirohito Suzuki

Masaki Sawada

Yasuhiro Yoritsune

A switching device having a central actuator and two outer actuators disposed separately from the central actuator on two sides, wherein the central actuator is a cylindrical dial () supported rotatably and depressibly by a pair of spindle bearings () included in a base plate; the base plate () supporting the dial () is fitted in a frame; the outer actuators are pivotable in a direction approximately perpendicular to a direction in which the three actuators are arrayed and about a pivot approximately perpendicular to a direction in which operating surfaces of the outer acutators are pushed to press a contact () disposed on the frame; and each of the outer actuators has a to-be-supported piece () extending to a position where the outer actuator deviates from a lateral edge of the dial () in the rotating direction as viewed from the front. The outer actuator is pivotally attached at the end of the to-be-supported piece () to the frame () and has a center axis crossing the pair of spindle bearings of the central actuator.

Switching device

A switch device in which two operators are aligned with another operator in between, and a switch device having a dial section (a middle operator) of a jog dial and operation buttons (outer operators) of two operation button switches placed closely to one anther with the dial section in between, and an operation plane of the operation button is formed on a slanted plane that becomes higher the further it is from the jog dial section.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yusuke Morinishi