Title: Multidirectional switching operating device
Application Number: 98107497 Application Date: 1998.05.08
Publication Number: 1199208 Publication Date: 1998.11.18
Approval Pub. Date: 2004.05.26 Granted Pub. Date: 2004.05.26
International Classifi-cation: G09B9/04
Applicant(s) Name: Konami Co., Ltd. Address:
Inventor(s) Name: Hirofumi Nagao
Attorney & Agent: li xiaoshu
Abstract:
    This invention relates to a shift lever mechanism used in driving a simulative running machine. The shift lever mechanism has a first shaft extending along a first axis and a second shaft extending along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis. An operation lever is pivotable about the first axis and the second axis. The shift lever mechanism further includes a speed zone setter for variably setting a speed of the running machine among a plurality of speed zones including a neutral zone by shifting the operation lever, and a torsion spring for applying a biasing force to bias the operation lever toward the neutral zone. It is set such that the biasing force exerted by the torsion spring is transmitted to a pivotal movement of the operation lever about the first shaft and the second shaft. Thereby, when the operation lever is shifted in any one of the available directions, the operation lever is applied with the biasing force to return the operation lever toward the neutral zone, thereby assuredly conveying an operator that the operation lever has been shifted to a desired speed zone.
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