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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2004
Kenji Nishimura, Osaka, JP;
Tamotsu Yamamoto, Hyogo, JP;
Kenji Nishimura, Osaka, JP;
Tamotsu Yamamoto, Hyogo, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A switch includes a housing, an operating member placed in the housing, and contacting sections accommodated in the housing. The operating member has an operating section made of elastic material to be bowed in every direction and an operating unit coupled to the operating section. When greater force than necessary for changing a state of the contacting sections is applied to the operating section along an operating direction, or when force directed in a direction other than the operating direction is applied to the operating section, the operating section itself bows to absorb extra force.