Patent ID: 8847581

Claim:
An operation input apparatus comprising: an operating unit configured to be displaced by the action of an operation input; an actuator output shaft configured to be displaced in the same direction as the operating unit by the action of the operation input; an actuator configured to move the operating unit via the actuator output shaft; a detecting element configured to output a signal corresponding to an amount of displacement of the operating unit; a pressing portion; and a tilting portion surrounding the pressing portion, wherein the actuator moves the pressing portion and the tilting portion via the actuator output shaft; wherein the actuator output shaft includes a protruding portion penetrating a side of the actuator opposite the side of the operating unit; and wherein two electrodes are disposed at a position opposite the protruding portion and configured to be electrically connected to each other by the protruding portion in order to detect the displacement of the actuator output shaft.