Patent ID: 11967474
Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  E | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An operation device, comprising:
an operation knob that is operable by a pull-up operation and a push-down operation about a shaft and comprises a front-end operation region on a front-end side far from the shaft and a rear-end operation region on a rear end side close to the shaft;
a contact detection unit to detect contact of a user with the front-end operation region and the rear-end operation region;
an operation detection unit to detect the pull-up operation and the push-down operation performed on the operation knob; and
a determination unit that determines an operation performed by combining contact with the front-end operation region and the rear-end operation region detected by the contact detection unit and the pull-up operation and the push-down operation detected by the operation detection unit, and also determines that at least an operation performed on the rear-end operation region is invalid when contact with the front-end operation region and the rear-end operation region is detected.