US 12,461,605 B2
Input device
Kunio Hosono, Fukushima-ken (JP); Tetsuo Muranaka, Miyagi-ken (JP); Tetsu Numata, Miyagi-ken (JP); and Sadayuki Yaginuma, Miyagi-ken (JP)
Assigned to Alps Alpine Co., Ltd., (JP)
Filed by Alps Alpine Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 21, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/810,679.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-141805 (JP), filed on Aug. 31, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0076995 A1, Mar. 6, 2025
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0338 (2013.01); G06F 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0338 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0202 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An input device comprising:
a strain generation body having an operation shaft;
a load sensor configured to detect a load in a horizontal direction applied to the operation shaft;
an operation member disposed in an upper portion of the operation shaft, the operation member being configured to be operated in a pressing operation;
a switch section configured to detect one of an ON state and an OFF state based on the pressing operation performed by using the operation member; and
a controller configured to output a detection value of the load in the horizontal direction detected by the load sensor and a detection value corresponding to one of the ON state and the OFF state detected by the switch section to an external device,
wherein the controller is configured not to update the detection value of the load in the horizontal direction while the ON state is detected by the switch section, and
the controller is configured to output the detection value of the load in the horizontal direction at a time in which the switch section previously detects the OFF state while the ON state is detected by the switch section.