US 12,148,582 B2
Input device
Satoshi Yoshihara, Hyogo (JP); Kota Araki, Osaka (JP); Hiroaki Nishiono, Osaka (JP); and Kenji Shibata, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/913,082
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 16, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/010664
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/193250, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-059109 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0170166 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. H01H 25/04 (2006.01)
CPC H01H 25/041 (2013.01) [H01H 2025/043 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An input apparatus comprising:
a first pressing member having an operation surface and a first axis, the first pressing member being tiltable around the first axis by the operation surface being pushed;
a second pressing member having a second axis, the second pressing member being tiltable around the second axis by being pushed by the first pressing member thus tilted; and
a substrate including at least one pressure sensor which is be pushed by the second pressing member,
a position of the first axis in the first pressing member being variable in accordance with a pushed position on the operation surface,
wherein the at least one pressure sensor includes:
a sensing electrode disposed on the board and
a movable electrode facing the sensing electrode and being movable toward the sensing electrode,
the second pressing member is electrically conductive and is configured to be connected to a reference potential, and
the second pressing member is configured to come into, and out of, contact with the moving electrode in accordance with a tilt of the second pressing member.