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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:
Aug. 10, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 9/00 ;
Abstract
A switch device in which two operators are aligned with another operator in between, and a switch device having a dial section (a middle operator) of a jog dial and operation buttons (outer operators) of two operation button switches placed closely to one anther with the dial section in between, and an operation plane of the operation button is formed on a slanted plane that becomes higher the further it is from the jog dial section.