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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2019
Applicant:
Alps Alpine Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 9/16 (2006.01); G05G 5/03 (2008.04); G05G 9/047 (2006.01); H01H 19/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 9/16 (2013.01); G05G 5/03 (2013.01); G05G 2009/04751 (2013.01); H01H 19/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
A rotary operating device includes an operation part that is rotatable according to an operation by an operator, a rotation angle sensor that detects a rotation angle of the operation part, a torque applier that applies application torque to the operation part along a rotation direction of the operation part, a frictional force applier that applies a frictional force to the operation part, and a processor programmed to change the application torque and the frictional force according to the rotation angle.