Patent ID: 9130572
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: G01L,G06F,G10H,H03K

Abstract:
1. A controller comprising: an operating member operable by a user's depression thereof; and a touch detection device constructed to detect a depressing touch on said operating member, said touch detection device including: a movable contact pattern provided on a lower surface of said operating member; and a fixed contact pattern disposed underneath said operating member, wherein one of said fixed contact pattern and said movable contact pattern is a coil-shaped contact pattern, and other of said fixed contact pattern and said movable contact pattern is a uniform surface pattern, at least one of said fixed contact pattern and said movable contact pattern has flexibility, at least one of said fixed contact pattern and said movable contact pattern has a surface slanted from a center of a coil of the coil-shaped contact pattern toward an outer peripheral edge of the coil, said fixed contact pattern is the coil-shaped contact pattern formed on a printed circuit board, said movable contact pattern has the flexibility and the surface slanted from the center of the coil toward the outer peripheral edge of the coil, a light emitting component part is provided centrally in the coil of the coil-shaped contact pattern on the printed circuit board, and said operating member has translucency to direct light, emitted from said light emitting component part, toward an upper surface of said operating member.