Rotating apparatus and electronic device with rotating apparatus

Abstract

The invention relates to a rotating device with lighting function and electronic equipment equipped with the rotating device. The rotating device is characterized in that it includes an operating body and a detection mechanism for detecting the rotating movement of the operating body. The operating body is formed in a disk shape and can be rotated. light; an illuminating unit for illuminating by light incident from the above-mentioned light incident unit; and a light guide unit for guiding light from the above-mentioned light incident unit to the above-mentioned illuminating unit, the above-mentioned illuminating unit is arranged along the outer peripheral portion of the above-mentioned operating body, and the above-mentioned operating body The illuminating part on the first radial side is an operating part to be operated, and a part of the illuminating part corresponding to the operating part is illuminated.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a rotating device with lighting function and electronic equipment equipped with the rotating device. Background technique [0002] A disk-shaped rotary input device is often used in some electronic devices such as mobile phones, tablet computers, and car navigators. The rotary input device has a disk component, and the rotation direction and The signal corresponding to the rotation angle. In addition, in this rotary input device, there is also a switch operated by pushing the disk member, and an item can be selected by rotating the disk member and confirmed by operating the switch. The above switches to execute the items identified above. Such a rotary input device is described in Patent Document 1, for example. [0003] Patent Document 1: Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-312942 [0004] However, existing rotary devices such as rotary input devices do not have an illumination function, so it is inconvenient to use in a da...

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[0004] However, the existing rotary devices such as rotary input devices do not have the lighting function, so it is inconvenient to use in dark conditions, and it seems to be lacking in design and not beautiful enough.

Moreover, the existing rotary input device cannot visually feed back the operation content to the operator when the input operation is performed, and the operability is average.

[0005] In addition, with the miniaturization of electronic equipment, the miniaturization of rotary devices such as rotary input devices is also very important. If additional mechanisms such as light sources, light guide members, and lighting components are installed on existing rotary devices, it will cause the rotary device to be damaged. Larger (thicker)

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