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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1999
Darin Bradley Ritter, Indianapolis, IN (US);
William Hofmann Bose, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Thomson licensing S.A., Boulogne Cedex, FR;
Abstract
A gimbal mounted multifunction button has a selector button that can selectively actuate one or more microswitches in response to a biasing force. The multifunction button has a selector button mounted to a gimbal contained in a plate. The selector button has a plurality of protruding actuators that pass through the plate and align with a plurality of microswitches mounted to a printed circuit board. The selector button may be biased to selectively cause one of the of actuators to actuate a corresponding switch, or alternately selectively cause an adjacent pair of actuators to actuate a corresponding pair of adjacent switches.