US 7,321,101 B2
Switch device and input device using the same
Masahiro Hirobe, Shiga (Japan); Takayoshi Kishimoto, Fukui (Japan); Kenji Otomo, Fukui (Japan); and Hitokazu Shitanaka, Fukui (Japan)
Assigned to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Oct. 24, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/552,220.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-308166 (JP), filed on Oct. 24, 2005; application No. 2006-255592 (JP), filed on Sep. 21, 2006; and application No. 2006-283353 (JP), filed on Oct. 18, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0089977 A1, Apr. 26, 2007
Int. Cl. H01H 9/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 200—5R  [200/5 A] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A switch device comprising:
an operation body;
a membrane switch including a plurality of contact switches electrically connected upon being pushed by the operation body; and
a plurality of push switches activated by pushing the operation body via the membrane switch, respective ones of the plurality of push switches being activated together with respective ones of the plurality of contact switches.