Patent ID: 8744097

Claim:
A microphone device comprising: an electrical contact component that switches between a conductive state and a nonconductive state of a microphone power supply; a first operator having a first operating portion on which a power-on operation, in a first operating direction, and a power-off operation, in a direction opposite to the first operating direction, are independently performed by a microphone user; a second operator that has a second operating portion by which the power-on operation, in a second operating direction different from the first operating direction, is performed, and that maintains the electrical contact component in the conductive state while the power-on operation is performed in the second operating direction; and an interlock that interlocks the operation of the first operator with the second operator by converting movement of the first operator in the first operating direction into movement of the second operator in the second operating direction, and by converting movement in the direction opposite to the first operating direction of the first operator into movement in a direction opposite to the second operating direction of the second operator, wherein the first operating portion of the first operator and the second operating portion of the second operator are separated from each other, the first operator includes a slider having a slide knob as the first operating portion that can slide between a conductive position and a nonconductive position, the first operating direction is a sliding direction of the slide knob, the second operator includes a pusher having push button as the second operating portion, the second operating direction is a pushing direction of the push button, and the push button is separated from the slide knob, and the interlock has a first inclined surface provided on the slider, and a second inclined surface provided on the pusher, the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface are inclined relative to the sliding direction and the pushing direction, and when the slider slides from the nonconductive position to the conductive position, the first inclined surface presses the second inclined surface to thereby move the pusher in the pushing direction, and the second inclined surface is positioned at both sides of the pusher in a direction transverse to the sliding direction.