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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2018
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Satoshi Yoshihara, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 25/00 (2006.01); H01H 25/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 25/002 (2013.01); H01H 25/008 (2013.01); H01H 25/06 (2013.01); H01H 2025/004 (2013.01);
Abstract
An input device includes: an operation part being slidable in a first direction along a reference plane and in a second direction along the reference plane; and a slide detector detecting that the operation part slides. The slide detector includes a rocking body and a rocking motion detector, the rocking body is inclined with respect to the reference plane in accordance with a sliding movement of the operation part, and the rocking motion detector detects that the rocking body is inclined.