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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:
Nov. 17, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hirofumi Niitsuma, Iwaki, JP;
Assignee:
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340706 ; 340709 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is an X-Y direction input device for moving a cursor on a screen in a suitable direction, the device comprising a rotatable rotation operating member, a first rotary type electric part for detecting a rotational amount of the rotating operating member, a slide operating member capable of being reciprocated in a direction of a rotational axis of the rotation operating member, and a second rotary type electric part for detecting an amount of movement of the slide operating member.