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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2012
Toshio Kaneko, Tokyo, JP;
Nobutaka Tsuneyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Toshio Kaneko, Tokyo, JP;
Nobutaka Tsuneyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A power generation apparatus includes an operation member that has a first operation part or a second operation part operated upon power generation; a power generation part that generates an induced electromotive force upon being driven by a slide member that moves in a first direction or a second direction; first and second elastic units that accumulate an elastic force; a first connection release mechanism that prompts the first elastic unit to accumulate elastic force when the first operation part is operated and allows the elastic force to be output to move the slide member in the second direction when accumulation is completed; and a second connection release mechanism that prompts the second elastic unit to accumulate the elastic force when the second operation part is operated and allows the elastic force to be output to move the slide member in the first direction when accumulation is completed.