MANUAL INPUT DEVICE AND ON-VEHICLE EQUIPMENT CONTROLLER USING THE DEVICE

Japanese Patent JP3920563

B2

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manual input device in which the operation feeling of a knob can be appropriately changed and to provide an on-vehicle equipment controller provided with the manual input device of this kind.
SOLUTION: The manual input device 1A is constituted of a case 1, an operation shaft 2, the knob 3 fixed to one end of the operation shaft 2 and a feeling imparting means 4, an actuator 6 and a first and a second position sensors 5 and 7 incorporated inside the case 1. The feeling imparting means 4 is fixed to the operation shaft 2 and constituted of a plurality of disks 8, 9 and 10 for which first - third feeling generation patterns FP1-FP3 are formed on circumferential surfaces and a ball holder 11 for cooperating with the disks 8, 9 and 10 and imparting the operation feeling to the knob 3. By driving the actuator 6 and vertically moving the ball holder 11, the feeling generation patterns FP1-FP3 with which the ball 11a is to be in elastic contact are switched and the operation feeling to be obtained at the time of rotating the knob 3 is changed. The on-vehicle equipment controller is provided with the manual input device of this kind as a function adjustment means of on-vehicle electrical equipment.

Kenichi Kiyono
Mikio Onodera
Hidetaka Numata

JP2000391230A

May 30, 2007

December 22, 2000

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ALPS ELECTRIC CO.,LTD.

B60K37/06; G05G1/10; G06F3/023; G05G5/03; G06F3/02; G06F3/033; G06F3/0362; G06F3/038; (IPC1-7): G06F3/023; B60K37/06; G06F3/02; G06F3/033

JP63134417U
JP60094739U
JP60235227A
JP1129734U
JP11305938A
JP5089745A
JP2000149721A
JP64011503U

Kenjiro Take
Ichiro Suzuki
Hirohiro Ichimura
Kazuo Kobayashi

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