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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2020
Alps Alpine Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yu Takeda, Miyagi, JP;
ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An operating device according to one embodiment includes a tiltable operating lever, a holding member that holds the operating lever, a locking member that restricts a tilt of the operating lever, a driving source, a hold driving mechanism driven by the driving source and configured to move the holding member between a hold position where the operating lever is held at a tilted position, and a return position where the operating lever returns to a predetermined position from the tilted position, and a lock driving mechanism driven by the driving source and configured to move the locking member between a lock position where the tilt of the operating lever is restricted, and a release position where restricting the tilt of the operating lever is released. The hold driving mechanism and the lock driving mechanism are respectively driven by the driving source at different timings.