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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2008
Kouichiro Takashima, Tokyo, JP;
Seiji Muramatsu, Saitama, JP;
Tsutomu Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shun Kayama, Saitama, JP;
Yukiko Shimizu, Saitama, JP;
Takashi Sawada, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Kushima, Tokyo, JP;
Shinji Kanada, Tokyo, JP;
Minoru Tomita, Saitama, JP;
Kouichiro Takashima, Tokyo, JP;
Seiji Muramatsu, Saitama, JP;
Tsutomu Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shun Kayama, Saitama, JP;
Yukiko Shimizu, Saitama, JP;
Takashi Sawada, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Kushima, Tokyo, JP;
Shinji Kanada, Tokyo, JP;
Minoru Tomita, Saitama, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An input device inputs information by a slide operation depending on an operation body. The device contains a housing having an operation surface, a detection unit that is provided in the housing and includes an electrostatic capacitance sheet member which detects a slide position of the operation body to output a position detection signal, and an operation unit that covers an entire surface 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 a sliding direction from one direction of the operation surface of the housing and also which becomes thinner toward the other direction of the operation surface thereof. The electrostatic capacitance sheet member includes a switch portion that is switched by a press-in operation of the operation body to the operation unit.