US Patent Issued to CASIO COMPUTER on July 14 for "Switch apparatus and electronic equipment" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,101, issued on July 14, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Switch apparatus and electronic equipment" was invented by Hirokatsu Katoh (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch apparatus includes a case, a button provided on the case and can be operated by pushing from a first direction, and a shaft provided in a space within the case and configured to move together with the button along an axial direction in response to an operation on the button, wherein, within the space, at least one magnet is fixed to either the case or the shaft, and at least one magnetic body is fixed to a remaining one, and wherein the at l...