ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,380, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Dial and operating mechanism" was invented by Yangbae Ji (Saitama, Japan) and Takayuki Shimizu (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first dial includes: a rotatable dial member having a shaft portion; a moving mechanism that moves the dial member in a Z1 direction; and a flexible print substrate having a first sensor that detects rotation of the dial member and a second sensor that detects a position of the dial member moved by the moving mechanism, in which the flexible print substrate is disposed on a Z1 direction side with respect to the shaft portion."
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