MULTIDIRECTIONAL INPUT DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multidirectional input device which can be down-sized easily with a thin thickness, and can make analog signals capable to be output when a tilting operation is carried out. SOLUTION: A plurality of contacts 11 are arranged at the outer periphery of the inner bottom face 1a on the base 1, and pressure-sensitive conductive rubber 3 which can be press-contacted to these contacts 11 is opposedly arranged on the inner bottom face 1a, and a conductive operation body 4 in which tilting operation can be carried out is arranged so that it covers the pressure-sensitive conductive rubber 3 on the base 1. Moreover, a frame member 7 which is a conductive annular member is sheathed on the base 1, and a regulated part 4b installed at a plurality of points of the outer periphery of the operation body 4 contacts the frame member 7 in order that upper movement is regulated. In the tilting operation, the regulated part 4b becomes the tilting fulcrum at one end of the diameter direction of the operation body 4. At other end of the diameter direction, the pressure-sensitive conductive rubber 3 is set to be compressed on a prescribed part of the contact part 11 pressured by the operation body 4, and a conductive state between the contact part 11 and the frame member 7 can be made changeable depending on the amount of the compression of the pressure-sensitive conductive rubber 3. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT