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Title:
MULTI-DIRECTIONAL CONTROLLING ELEMENT AND CONTROL INPUT EQUIPMENT USING THE SAME
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3965766
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form a multi-directional controlling element for use with a game machine or the like into a simple structure which is small in outer dimension, and which has a small number of component parts.
SOLUTION: A plurality of switches 12A-12D which operate when pressed upward are placed on the lower surface of a base 11 having a hole 11A therein, and at equally distant positions from the hole 11A, and a control shaft 14 supported by a shaft supporting part 13A below the switches 12A, 12C is tilted so that the switches 12A, 12C are driven by a drive 15 secured to the drive shaft 14. Therefore, a multi-directional controlling element having a predetermined control stroke and good controllability can be obtained using a structure which is small in outer dimension and which has a small number of component parts, and small and thin control input equipment of good controllability which uses the controlling element can be obtained.


Inventors:
Yokochi Shigeru
Kazushi Ohta
Hiroshi Matsui
Application Number:
JP8849098A
Publication Date:
August 29, 2007
Filing Date:
April 01, 1998
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd
International Classes:
H01H25/04; A63F13/00; A63F13/24; (IPC1-7): H01H25/04; A63F9/22
Domestic Patent References:
JP6017072U
JP10055250A
JP5097030U
JP9147666A
JP59188645U
JP58028685U
JP62105327A
JP59125035U
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Fumio Iwahashi
Hiroki Naito
Daisuke Nagano