Patent ID: 9048046
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: G05G,H01H

Abstract:
1. An operation input device comprising: an operation body having a handle portion, the handle portion being configured to be held by a user and having an operation axis line in virtual, the operation body being configured to four detection portions disposed at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction of the operation axis line, wherein an abutting portion having a surface on which a tip end of the operation body along the direction of the operation axis line abuts in a case where the operation axis line of the handle portion is tilted or the handle portion is pressed, and providing the user with a same operational feeling in all the eight tilting directions in a case where the operation axis line of the handle portion is tilted; and a determination device that determines one of the eight tilting directions of the operation body or determines whether the handle portion has been pressed, based on information on a total number of first output values outputted from a part of the four detection portions and information on the part of the four detection portions that have outputted the first output values, wherein the determination device includes wherein the first sub-determination device determines that the operation body has been pressed in the direction of the operation axis line in a case where the four detection portions output the first output values, wherein the second sub-determination device determines that the operation axis line of the handle portion has been tilted in one of the eight tilting directions in a case where a total number of the four detection portions that have outputted the first output values is less than a predetermined number, and wherein the third sub-determination device does not determine a tilting direction for a predetermined period in a case where one of the four detection portions outputs the first output value, and determines that the one of the four detection portions and another of the four detection portions output the first output values simultaneously in a case where the another of the four detection portions outputs the first output value within the predetermined period.