摘要 |
A remote control is equipped with a pushbutton unit including a plurality of transverse linking sections linking pushbuttons in a transverse direction and a bridge section connecting the transverse linking sections at one side. This pushbutton unit is provided by integrally forming a first button group and a second button group respectively including a plurality of pushbuttons in a specified arrangement as a unit on a sheet-form elastic member in such a manner that pushbuttons of one button group are located between pushbuttons of the other button group and by cutting, along a specified cut line, this unit into two pushbutton units including transverse linking sections with pushbuttons linked in the transverse direction and a bridge section that connects the transverse linking sections at one side. Since the portion where any pushbutton of one pushbutton unit is not arranged can be used as the portion where a pushbutton of the other pushbutton unit is arranged in such a configuration, the wasteful use of material can be reduced. In addition, since two pushbutton units can be formed by one molding process, the forming man-hour per pushbutton unit can be reduced.
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