Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Magnetic detection device and electronic apparatus equipped with the same
- Patent Title (中): 磁性检测装置及配备有其的电子仪器
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Application No.: US12256737Application Date: 2008-10-23
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Publication No.: US07884601B2Publication Date: 2011-02-08
- Inventor: Yoshito Sasaki
- Applicant: Yoshito Sasaki
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: ALPS Electric Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
- Priority: JP2006-311211 20061117
- Main IPC: G01R33/09
- IPC: G01R33/09 ; G01B7/14

Abstract:
A magnet is contained in a display housing and is supported by a slidable operating member. A control housing contains a magnetoresistance effect element. Slidable shifting of the operating member causes an external magnetic field in a positive (+) direction and an external magnetic field in a negative (−) direction to enter the magnetoresistance effect element from the magnet at different timings, thereby changing the electric resistance of the magnetoresistance effect element. Accordingly, when the operating member is slidably shifted, a switching operation between predetermined modes is performed on the basis of a change in the resistance of the magnetoresistance effect element.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090051357A1 MAGNETIC DETECTION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME Public/Granted day:2009-02-26
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