US 12,079,025 B2
Input device
Mayuko Okada, Fukui (JP); Hidekatsu Natami, Kanagawa (JP); Toshio Osawa, Kanagawa (JP); Daiki Kaburagi, Fukui (JP); and Mitsuo Kodama, Fukui (JP)
Assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd., Kanagawa (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/894,906.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-147853 (JP), filed on Sep. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0077897 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H01H 19/20 (2006.01); B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); G05G 9/04 (2006.01); H01H 19/14 (2006.01); H01H 19/36 (2006.01)
CPC G05G 9/04 (2013.01) [B60Q 1/0076 (2013.01); H01H 19/14 (2013.01); H01H 19/20 (2013.01); H01H 19/36 (2013.01); H01H 2221/014 (2013.01); H01H 2231/026 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
7. An input device comprising:
a rotating member that rotates about a predetermined rotation axis; and
a mover that includes a protrusion and moves in a direction different from a rotation direction of the rotating member along with rotation of the rotating member, the protrusion protruding toward an inner peripheral surface of the rotating member, wherein
the rotating member includes a first projection and a second projection that project from the inner peripheral surface toward the mover,
the protrusion of the mover is inclined with respect to the predetermined rotation axis and disposed between the first projection and the second projection,
the first projection and the second projection each include a spherical portion that contacts the protrusion, and
the first projection includes:
a first column member that projects from the inner peripheral surface of the rotating member toward the mover; and
a first sphere member at a distal end of the first column member, the first sphere member having a diameter longer than a diameter of the first column member, and
the second projection includes:
a second column member that projects from the inner peripheral surface of the rotating member toward the mover; and
a second sphere member at a distal end of the second column member, the second sphere member having a diameter longer than a diameter of the second column member.