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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2005
Tetsuro Hanahara, Fukui, JP;
Shigeru Shibutani, Fukui, JP;
Takaya Nakamura, Fukui, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The invention relates to a switching device and a remote control unit using the switching device to be used for operating a variety of electronic products. The invention aims to provide a device and unit which can be miniaturized and which can utilize a high-density components mounting technology. A switch () is disposed inside an inner periphery of the rotary operating part (), and a lever () of the switch () is engaged with a cam () formed at an inner boundary of the operating part (), constituting a switching device (). With this constitution, the switching device and the remote control unit using the device can be provided miniaturized using a high-density components mounting.