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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2008
Kouichiro Takashima, Tokyo, JP;
Seiji Muramatsu, Saitama, JP;
Tsutomu Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shun Kayama, Saitama, JP;
Yukiko Shimizu, Saitama, JP;
Takashi Sawada, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Kushima, Tokyo, JP;
Yuuji Arataki, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Yokoyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuhiko Takeda, Chiba, JP;
Kouichiro Takashima, Tokyo, JP;
Seiji Muramatsu, Saitama, JP;
Tsutomu Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shun Kayama, Saitama, JP;
Yukiko Shimizu, Saitama, JP;
Takashi Sawada, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Kushima, Tokyo, JP;
Yuuji Arataki, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Yokoyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuhiko Takeda, Chiba, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An input device that inputs information by a slide operation depending on an operation body contains a housing including an operation surface, a detection unit that is provided in the housing and detects a slide position inputted by a slide operation depending on the operation body, and an operation unit that covers at least a portion of the detection unit and is slide-operated along the operation surface of the housing. The operation unit has a convex shape which becomes thicker along the sliding direction from one portion of the operation surface of the housing and also which becomes thinner toward the other portion of the operation surface thereof.