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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2006
Naoya Kawanobe, Kyoto, JP;
Tomoyuki Sakiyama, Kyoto, JP;
Naoya Kawanobe, Kyoto, JP;
Tomoyuki Sakiyama, Kyoto, JP;
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A hand-held game machine () includes a horizontally-long rectangular housing (), and the housing is covered with a cover () almost entirely. Each of top main surfaces of the housing and the cover has a plane shape of pincushion, and thus, the top main surface of the housing forms a lower inclined surface () connecting a lower side surface () and the top main surface of the housing. On the top main surface of the housing, a cross key () and an A button (), and a B button () are provided, and on the lower inclined surface (), a start switch () and a select switch () are arranged. On left and right edges of an upper side surface () of the housing, a left switch (L) and a right switch (R) are arranged. As to each of the left switch and the right switch, a switch portion is formed at one end nearer to a center of the housing in the horizontal direction, and a pin is provided at the other end opposite thereto. The pin is inserted into a bearing formed on the housing to function as a pivot at the other end of each of the left switch and the right switch.