US 12,105,895 B2
Operating device using variable resistor
Tomoya Endo, Miyagi (JP); and Kazuhiko Sasaki, Miyagi (JP)
Assigned to ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/930,099.
Application 17/930,099 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/009641, filed on Mar. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-045117 (JP), filed on Mar. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0004235 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H01H 25/04 (2006.01); A63F 13/24 (2014.01); G05G 1/015 (2008.04); G05G 1/04 (2006.01); G05G 9/047 (2006.01); G06F 3/0338 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 3/0338 (2013.01) [A63F 13/24 (2014.09); G05G 1/015 (2013.01); G05G 1/04 (2013.01); H01H 25/04 (2013.01); G05G 9/047 (2013.01); G05G 2009/0474 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operating device comprising:
a lever configured to be operated by tilting;
a resistor having a flat strip shape extending in an extending direction and provided on a surface of a substrate; and
a slider configured to change a contact position along the extending direction of the resistor on a surface of the resistor by sliding on the surface of the resistor in accordance with tilting operation of the lever,
wherein the resistor has a low-resistance portion that has a lower resistance value than other portions of the resistor because the low-resistance portion is thicker than the other portions of the resistor, the low-resistance portion in contact with the slider when the lever is in a neutral position.