US 11,953,929 B2
Operation device
Shigeto Gorai, Miyagi (JP); Tetsu Numata, Miyagi (JP); Akihiro Kusaka, Miyagi (JP); Shunsuke Kimura, Fukushima (JP); and Reiji Koyama, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP); and OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP); and OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/658,723.
Application 17/658,723 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/039771, filed on Oct. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-195905 (JP), filed on Oct. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0236759 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. G05G 1/02 (2006.01); G05G 1/06 (2006.01); H01H 13/14 (2006.01); H01H 13/20 (2006.01); G05G 5/05 (2006.01)
CPC G05G 1/02 (2013.01) [G05G 1/06 (2013.01); H01H 13/14 (2013.01); H01H 13/20 (2013.01); G05G 5/05 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operation device comprising:
a support portion;
a stem configured to tilt;
a switch portion located below the stem and operated by a tilting operation of the stem; and
an operation knob formed of an elastic material,
wherein the operation knob includes an inner surface portion, located below an upper end portion of the stem, that forms a ceiling surface of an internal space, and a housing recess, formed by being recessed upwardly from the inner surface portion, that houses an upper portion including at least the upper end portion of the stem, and
wherein a reinforcing surface is exposed on the inner surface portion, and the reinforcing surface is disposed continuously or intermittently in a direction surrounding the stem.