Patent ID: 7729519

Claim:
An electronic apparatus comprising: a housing comprising an opening part; a pad button section comprising a pair of buttons disposed in the opening part; a switch board which is contained in the housing and on which a pair of switches operated via the buttons is mounted; and a fixing member which fixes the switch board in the housing, the housing comprising a cover member which forms a part of the housing, the cover member comprising the opening part, one of a first switch board on which a fingerprint authentication unit is mounted between the switches and a second switch board on which no fingerprint authentication units are mounted being selectively adopted as the switch board, one of a first pad button section which is formed along an inner rim of the opening part of the housing and in which a fingerprint authentication cover which exposes the fingerprint authentication unit outside of the housing is provided between the buttons in a longitudinal direction of the buttons, and a second pad button section which is formed along an inner rim of the opening part of the housing and in which the buttons are adjacent to each other in a longitudinal direction of the buttons being selectively adopted as the pad button section, the first pad button section and the second pad button section each comprising an arm extending, in the longitudinal direction of the buttons, from an end part of each of the buttons in the longitudinal direction of the buttons, the end part not being adjacent to an adjacent button, the arm being fixed to the housing, the cover member and the fixing member being identical in shape between a case where the first pad button section is adopted and a case where the second pad button section is adopted.