US 12,390,719 B2
Operation device
Masashi Ito, Miyagi (JP); and Masatoshi Ono, Miyagi (JP)
Assigned to ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/058,969.
Application 18/058,969 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/019449, filed on May 21, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-097194 (JP), filed on Jun. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0091802 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. A63F 13/24 (2014.01)
CPC A63F 13/24 (2014.09) [A63F 2300/1006 (2013.01); A63F 2300/1043 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operation device comprising:
a case having a shaft-receiving hole;
a lever operable to tilt laterally and including:
a lever portion including a lower end and protruding upward from the case, and
a base supporting the lower end of the lever portion;
an actuator having an opening through which the lever portion passes and including a rotation shaft supported by the case, the actuator being configured to rotate in accordance with the tilting of the lever, such that the rotation shaft of the actuator is rotatably supported within the shaft-receiving hole in the case; and
a biasing unit configured to bias the lever upward,
wherein the lever includes a push-up portion configured to contact a peripheral portion of the opening of the actuator in response to a biasing force from the biasing unit to force of the actuator upward.