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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2007
Yasuhiro Yoritsune, Okayama, JP;
Akira Matsumoto, Okayama, JP;
Jun Sato, Okayama, JP;
Takumi Nishimoto, Okayama, JP;
Yasuhiro Yoritsune, Okayama, JP;
Akira Matsumoto, Okayama, JP;
Jun Sato, Okayama, JP;
Takumi Nishimoto, Okayama, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A rotary manipulation type electronic device permits users to obtain a feel of manipulation during rotational manipulations and produces clicking sounds of manipulations to thereby obtain an audiological sense of manipulations. The rotary manipulation type electronic device has a base body with which a rotary body is rotatably combined. An operative element is disposed such that movement of the operative element is restricted by an inside wall of a terminal leading portion of the base body and by leg portions of a leaf spring. Engagement portions engaging an uneven portion of a top surface of a flange portion of the rotary body protrude from the operative element. The leaf spring is brought into elastic contact with the top surface of the operative element.