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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2022
Alps Alpine Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Alps Alpine Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
An input device is characterized in that in a first stroke region in which an operation panel is pushed during a touch operation, a first reaction force that occurs by pushing the operation panel is generated by the first elastic portion. In a second stroke region including a stroke longer than in the first stroke region and a stroke for performing a push operation, a second reaction force that occurs by pushing the operation panel is a resultant force generated by a first elastic portion and the push switch. In the vicinity of a boundary between the first stroke region and the second stroke region, the amount of change in the first reaction force with respect to a stroke length is less than the amount of change in the second reaction force with respect to a stroke length.