Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Input and output operation device
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Application No.: US15102906Application Date: 2014-12-11
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Publication No.: US09958968B2Publication Date: 2018-05-01
- Inventor: Minoru Kumahara , Takuya Mori , Teruyuki Takizawa , Takeshi Nakazawa , Jiro Seki
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP
- Priority: JP2013-257288 20131212; JP2014-097674 20140509
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/006178 WO 20141211
- International Announcement: WO2015/087550 WO 20150618
- Main IPC: G06F3/033
- IPC: G06F3/033 ; G09G5/08 ; G06F3/038 ; G06F3/0338 ; G06F3/01 ; G06F3/0354 ; H01H50/36 ; H01H50/44 ; H01H50/64

Abstract:
An input and output operation device includes an actuator 165 including an operation unit 850; a movable unit having the operation unit and at least one attraction magnet mounted thereon and including a concaved portion in a part thereof; a secured unit including a convexed spherical surface loosely engageable with at least one magnetic member and the concaved portion of the movable unit, the convexed spherical surface being point-contactable or line-contactable with the concaved portion of the movable unit by a magnetic attraction force, the secured unit supporting the movable unit such that the movable unit is freely rotatable as centered around a spherical center of the convexed spherical surface; a first driving unit rotating the operation unit as centered around an X-axis passing the spherical center; a second driving unit rotating the operation unit as centered around a Y-axis perpendicular to the X-axis; a third driving unit rotating the movable unit as centered around a Z-axis that is perpendicular to the X-axis and the Y-axis and is a central axis of the operation unit; and a detector detecting a first rotation angle and a second rotation angle of the operation unit around the X-axis and the Y-axis; and also includes a detection circuit unit 360 generating first and second rotation angle signals; a control computation processing unit 94 generating first and second target rotation angle signals; and a driving circuit unit 350 generating a signal usable to drive the first and second driving units.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160357272A1 INPUT AND OUTPUT OPERATION DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-12-08
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