US 11,915,893 B2
Multi-directional operation switch device
Hisashi Sagara, Osaka (JP); Takeshi Miyaoka, Osaka (JP); and Hideyuki Murakami, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Jan. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/156,256.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-013112 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2022; and application No. 2022-132797 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0298835 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. H01H 25/00 (2006.01); H01H 25/04 (2006.01)
CPC H01H 25/002 (2013.01) [H01H 25/04 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multi-directional operation switch device that is slidable in four directions, the multi-directional operation switch device comprising:
a slider that is movable in the four directions;
four push switches that are provided in one-to-one correspondence with the four directions to detect a movement of the slider; and
four pressing members that are each provided between the slider and a corresponding one of the four push switches,
wherein the slider includes four side face portions, each side face portion intersecting a first axis or a second axis, the first axis and the second axis each extending in at least one of the four directions,
each of the four side face portions includes a sloped region that is sloped toward a center of the slider,
the four push switches include movable portions that are provided in one-to-one correspondence, each movable portion self-returning and moving to an original position of the movable portion when pressing is released, and
each of the four pressing members is in contact with a corresponding one of the movable portions and a corresponding one of the four side face portions.