ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT

• Main Authors: KOBAYASHI NORIO, AKIYAMA MASANORI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.12.2009
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTRICITY; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES; PHYSICS; RELAYS; SELECTORS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic apparatus and an electronic component, allowing a user operating the electronic apparatus to confirm a light emission state of a button from the front without impairing designability. SOLUTION: In the electronic apparatus 1, because a ring light shielding part 21 surrounds a peripheral surface 44 of the button 14, the designability is not impaired. Light emitted from a light emitting device 61 is incident on a diffusing sheet 50 provided on a bottom surface of a base 46 of the button 14, is scattered, passes through the button 14, and is emitted from a depression surface 43, so that the depression surface 43 emits the light. The light emitted from the light emitting device 61 is incident from the diffusing sheet 50 provided on the bottom surface of the base 46 of the button 14, is scattered, passes through the button 14 and a ring light emission part 31, is scattered inside the light emission part 31, and is emitted from the peripheral surface S of the light emission part 31, so that the peripheral surface S emits the light. By the light emission of the peripheral surface S of the ring light emission part 31, the user operating the electronic apparatus 1 can confirm the light emission state of the button 14 not only from one side surface side but also from the front by only equipping the light emitting device 61. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT