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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2005
Hiroyasu Fukaya, Aichi, JP;
Masayuki Nagata, Aichi, JP;
Masato Wakabayashi, Aichi, JP;
Sadaaki Shichino, Aichi, JP;
Hiroshi Okazaki, Osaka, JP;
Tomohiko Taki, Osaka, JP;
Hiroyasu Fukaya, Aichi, JP;
Masayuki Nagata, Aichi, JP;
Masato Wakabayashi, Aichi, JP;
Sadaaki Shichino, Aichi, JP;
Hiroshi Okazaki, Osaka, JP;
Tomohiko Taki, Osaka, JP;
Inax Corporation, Tokoname, JP;
Sanwa Electronic Instrument Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A remote controlleris capable of achieving switching operation even when the user presses substantially any place of a switch. A toilet seat open/close switchhas a tiltable memberwhich is tiltably supported at its front lower portion to an upper portion of a main body, a switch bodywhich is pressed by the tiltable memberwhen the tiltable membertilts, and a capwhich is mounted to the upper portion of the main bodysuch that the capcan be freely displaced in the anteroposterior direction and the vertical direction. The tiltable memberis disposed in a cavityformed inside the cap. As the capis pressed from front or from above, the tiltable memberis pressed by the capto tilt, whereby the switch bodyconducts the switching action.