US 12,458,871 B2
Input device, controller, and error detection method
Kosuke Takagaki, Tokyo (JP); and Kazuyuki Iguchi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/333,511.
Application 18/333,511 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/044961, filed on Dec. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-207047 (JP), filed on Dec. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0321526 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. A63F 13/21 (2014.01); A63F 13/24 (2014.01)
CPC A63F 13/21 (2014.09) [A63F 13/24 (2014.09)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An input device comprising:
a magnet that generates a magnetic field;
a sensor for detecting the magnetic field generated by the magnet; and
a magnet moving unit for moving a position of the magnet in a predetermined first plane, wherein
the magnet includes a first magnet and a second magnet,
the sensor is provided in a region different from a region in which the magnet moves in a top view with respect to the first plane,
the magnet moving unit is configured to move the first magnet in a predetermined first direction in the first plane, and move the second magnet in a second direction different from the first direction in the first plane,
the first direction and the second direction intersect in the first plane, and
the sensor is provided in common to the first magnet and the second magnet.