Abstract: When an operation knob 10 formed of silicone rubber is pushed laterally, a stem 7 tilts with a contact portion (i) as a fulcrum, a push button portion 6b is pushed, and a contact point in a switch mechanism portion 6a operates to turn on a switch circuit. Even if, by a large operating force F3 being applied, the operation knob 10 is extended and the inner surface portion 15, which is a ceiling surface of an internal space 13 of the operation knob 10, rides on an upper end portion 7c, a reinforcing surface 19 provided on the inner surface portion 15 slides on the upper end portion 7c, and the operation knob 10 returns to the initial shape.

Abstract: A door handle including a capacitance sensor configured to detect an operation body is provided. The capacitance sensor includes a substrate formed of an insulator and having a surface, at least one first sensor electrode disposed on the surface of the substrate, a plurality of second sensor electrodes disposed on the surface of the substrate, and a controller. The number of the plurality of second sensor electrodes is greater than the number of the at least one first sensor electrode. The controller applies a voltage to the plurality of second sensor electrodes and detects a coordinate position of the operation body, in a case where a capacitance between the operation body and the at least one first sensor electrode is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.

Abstract: An input device includes an operation member vertically movably disposed on a support, urging means for urging the operation member upward, and an inclination preventive member reducing inclination of the operation member by coupling first and second ends of the operation member in a first horizontal direction and linking vertical movements of the first and second ends together. The inclination preventive member includes a main shaft extending in the first horizontal direction and rotatably and axially supported by the support, a pair of arms extending from opposite ends of the main shaft toward an identical side of a second horizontal direction crossing the first horizontal direction, and a pair of secondary shafts extending in the first horizontal direction from distal ends of the pair of arms, and rotatably and axially supported by the first and second ends. The pair of arms include short and long arms.

Abstract: An input device includes: an operation surface that receives an operation from an operating body that is in close proximity thereto; and first detection electrodes that are arranged along the operation surface and that extend parallel to each other in a first direction. Each of the first detection electrodes has first detection surfaces that are provided side by side in the first direction and a first current path portion that extends linearly in the first direction and via which the first detection surfaces are connected to each other; and each of the first detection surfaces has one or more second current path portions and a pair of first connection portions via which the one or more second current path portions and the first current path portion are connected in parallel to each other.

Abstract: A current control circuit for controlling a drive current supplied to an inductive load is provided. The current control circuit is configured to perform a first mode of controlling a duty of the drive current so as to be 100% until a current value of the drive current reaches a first target current value after a supply of the drive current is started, and a second mode of controlling the duty of the drive current to be a predetermined duty below 100% until the current value of the drive current reaches a second target current value that is greater than the first target current value after the current value of the drive current reaches the first target current value.

Abstract: A touch detecting apparatus includes an electrostatic sensor provided on an object; and a processor configured to detect whether a hand touches the object based on a capacitance measured by the electrostatic sensor. The processor is configured to, in response to the capacitance being greater than or equal to a first touch threshold, detect that the hand touches the object, and, for a second predetermined time from when a change amount of the capacitance during a first predetermined time becomes greater than or equal to a noise threshold, continue a state where a correction value has been added to the first touch threshold.

Abstract: A rotary operating device includes a case, a rotating shaft member, an operation member, and a sensor. The case has a cavity having an annular shape with an opening at a top. The rotating shaft member is rotatable with respect to the case. The operation member rotates together with the rotating shaft member. The sensor is disposed within the cavity to detect rotation of the rotating shaft member. The case has an inner peripheral wall. The operation member has an inner cylindrical portion. The rotating shaft member has a peripheral wall that extends downward and along an outer peripheral surface of the inner peripheral wall. A first gap between the inner peripheral wall of the case and the peripheral wall of the rotating shaft member is smaller than a second gap between an inner peripheral surface of the rotating shaft member and the inner cylindrical portion of the operation member.

Abstract: A flow path plate for analysis of a component in a liquid sample, flowing within the flow path plate, by irradiating the liquid sample with measurement light is provided. The flow path plate includes a plate body having transparency; a flow path formed within the plate body and through which the liquid sample passes; a chamber provided in a part of the flow path and formed by a space having a cross-sectional area greater than cross-sectional areas of other parts of the flow path; and an internal part for detection disposed in the chamber and having a through hole. The through hole has an inner wall surface and constitutes a part of the flow path. The measurement light passes through the through hole. The internal part is configured to inhibit transmission of the measurement light from the inner wall surface of the through hole to the outside.

Abstract: A sensor attachment angle detection unit detects a yaw angle A3 of an approximate attachment angle of a six-axis inertial sensor, and a sensor output conversion unit converts acceleration outputs (ax, ay, az) and angular velocity outputs (?x, ?y, ?z) of three axes Xs, Ys, and Zs in a coordinate system of the six-axis inertial sensor into accelerations (ax?, ay?, az) and angular velocities (?x?, ?y?, ?z) of three axes Xs?, Ys?, and Zs in the coordinate system having a yaw angle within ±45 according to an angle range to which the detected attachment angle A3 belongs and inputs the converted accelerations and angular velocities to a Kalman filter.

Abstract: A remote communication system includes a portable device; and a fixed system. The fixed system includes main communication modules; and a position estimating unit configured to estimate a position of the portable device, based on an incident angle of a signal from the portable device, upon detecting the signal by antennas provided in the main communication modules. When there are two main communication modules for which the incident angle is known, the position of the portable device is estimated based on the incident angle. When there is one main communication module for which the incident angle is known, the position of the portable device is estimated based on the incident angle and a received radio wave intensity of the signal. When there is no main communication module for which the incident angle is known, the position of the portable device is estimated based on the received radio wave intensity.

Abstract: An input device is characterized in that in a first stroke region in which an operation panel is pushed during a touch operation, a first reaction force that occurs by pushing the operation panel is generated by the first elastic portion. In a second stroke region including a stroke longer than in the first stroke region and a stroke for performing a push operation, a second reaction force that occurs by pushing the operation panel is a resultant force generated by a first elastic portion and the push switch. In the vicinity of a boundary between the first stroke region and the second stroke region, the amount of change in the first reaction force with respect to a stroke length is less than the amount of change in the second reaction force with respect to a stroke length.

Abstract: In a frame, a diaphragm and an edge member are provided on a first side, and a magnetic driving portion having a magnetic circuit and a voice coil is provided on the second side. An edge support member is interposed between the edge accepting portion of the frame and the outer circumference fixing portion of the edge member. Part of the edge support member is a restricting portion extending toward the center of the frame. The restricting surface of the restricting portion faces the back of the edge member and diaphragm so as to be spaced with a distance.

Abstract: A signal e(z) obtained by subtracting echo-canceling sound from an output of a second microphone is used as an error of an echo cancellation adaptive filter and a noise cancellation adaptive filter, and an output of a first sound source device is added to the signal e(z) and output from a first speaker. The echo cancellation adaptive filter generates echo-canceling sound from an addition signal of the output of the second sound source device and the output of the first microphone such that the signal e(z) is minimized. The noise cancellation adaptive filter generates the noise-canceling sound from the output of the first sound source device such that the signal e(z) is minimized, and outputs the noise-canceling sound from the second speaker.

Abstract: A speaker unit on the left side and a speaker unit on the right side are included in a case positioned behind a listener. Sound generation openings and bass-reflex ports are formed in the case on the left side and right side. From each sound generation opening, sound pressure generated forward by the relevant speaker unit is output. Each bass-reflex port communicates with an air chamber to which sound pressure behind the speaker unit is transmitted. With each sound generation opening, the opening dimension in the up-down direction is larger than the opening dimension in the horizontal direction. With each bass-reflex port, as well, the opening dimension in the up-down direction is larger than the opening dimension in the horizontal direction.

Abstract: A press-contact guide, a restraining guide, and a latching mechanism are provided between a housing of a device body and a cover. A restraining projection provided on the cover is inserted into an introduction opening to cause a press-contact projection to be pressed into contact with a press-contact slide part. In this state, the cover is slid in a latching-force-acting direction. Then, the cover moves with a restraining projection being restrained by the restraining guide and cause a projecting latch to latch into a receiving hole. When such a latched state is established, the cover and the housing go out of contact with each other at the press-contact guide and the restraining guide.

Abstract: In some implementations of the present disclosure, a frame and a surface panel having a panel body, which is a glass plate, are integrated together by a insert molding method. The frame is formed from an elastomer. An inner-surface tight-contact surface formed as part of an inner surface support portion of the frame has a tight-contact edge portion positioned on the same side as the center of the surface panel. The tight-contact edge portion is formed at a position at which the tight-contact edge portion overlaps both a decorative layer and an adhesion functional resin layer. As a result, it is possible to restrain stress from being exerted directly on the decorative layer from the tight-contact edge portion.