| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81 | Push button keyboard device | US14659841 | 2015-03-17 | US09847192B2 | 2017-12-19 | Akihiko Mizutani; Fusanobu Nakamura; Mitsuhiro Yamazaki |
| A keyboard device is disclosed. The keyboard device includes a base, a key top, a film actuator, a position sensor, and a controller. The key top is movably arranged on the upper surface side of the base. Disposed between the base and the key top, the film actuator bends according to an applied voltage. Also disposed between the base and the key top, the position sensor detects a position of the key top. The controller applies a voltage to the film actuator in order to generate a repulsive force corresponding to the position of the key top detected by the position sensor. | ||||||
| 82 | ADJUSTABLE FORCE TACTILE SWITCH | US14864424 | 2015-09-24 | US20170092446A1 | 2017-03-30 | Aaron Schmitz |
| Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for a user input device, such as a game controller, that includes a finger-pressable (“tactile”) switch. The switch is adjustable to change the amount of force used to actuate the switch. In an example implementation, a tactile switch comprises a housing, a button interposer, a dome switch, and an adjustment mechanism. A user or other entity may press the button interposer. The dome switch is contained in the housing, and is actuated by the button interposer being pressed. The adjustment mechanism is contained at least partially in the housing, and is configured to enable an amount of force used to press the button interposer to actuate the dome switch to be adjusted. | ||||||
| 83 | KEYBOARD FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | US14752922 | 2015-06-27 | US20160379776A1 | 2016-12-29 | Nicholas W. Oakley |
| Particular embodiments described herein provide for a system that includes means for receiving a signal from a key, the signal indicating that the key has been activated and means for sending lateral haptic feedback to the key in response to the received signal that the key was activated. Additionally, the system may include a means for generating acoustic feedback in response to the received signal indicating that the key was activated and a means for generating visual feedback in response to the received signal indicating that the key was activated. | ||||||
| 84 | Keyboard | US14047493 | 2013-10-07 | US09318282B2 | 2016-04-19 | Takashi Nakajima; Hiromi Ohtsuka; Daisuke Taga; Fujio Seki |
| A keyboard is provided with a base member, moving members provided on the base member and unit parts. Each of the unit parts includes a contact which is electrically connected when depressed and an elastic member. The moving members include a first moving member which engages with one unit part, and a second moving member which engages with plural unit parts. The second moving member has a structure where the second moving member pushes the elastic member of one unit part and avoids pushing the elastic member of the other unit part. | ||||||
| 85 | TWO PART KEY CAP FOR USE IN KEYBOARD KEYS AND METHODS FOR THEIR MANUFACTURE | US14149089 | 2014-01-07 | US20150194277A1 | 2015-07-09 | Peter Bokma; Raymond Chin; Robert J. Bolender; Kirsten Itzold |
| A key assembly is for use in a keyboard of the type including a key guide having a planar translation effecting (PTE) feature. The key assembly includes a key base having a PTE mating feature configured to interact with the PTE feature during a key press, and a key cap configured to be attached to the key base. The key base is made of a first material and the key cap is made of a second material different from the first material. A conductive portion and/or a magnet may be wedged between or secured within the key base or the key cap. | ||||||
| 86 | Predictive force sensitive keypad | US12571157 | 2009-09-30 | US08816965B2 | 2014-08-26 | Mark Edward Causey; Jeffrey Norbert Howard; Andrew Thomas Smoak |
| Devices and methods are described for improving the efficiency of text input by requiring more pressure to select keys on a dynamic keyboard that are improbable key presses. Examples include a text-entry device which has logic for resisting error while the user enters text on a keyboard of the text-entry device. Each key has a lever mechanism which varies the force required to press the key. Keyboard logic on the text-entry device is programmed to change the force required to enter each key within the dynamic keyboard based on the prior entry. The keyboard logic assigns a prediction value to each key based on a statistical probability that the key will be entered next. | ||||||
| 87 | Mouse structure with adjustable clicking force function | US12699247 | 2010-02-03 | US08803804B2 | 2014-08-12 | Kuo-Hua Kao |
| The invention discloses a mouse structure with click force adjustable function, which comprises a shell, a circuit board module, and at least one adjustable mechanism. The adjustable mechanism is setting inside the shell, and comprises a supporting body, an adjustable plate and an adjustable component. The adjustable mechanism is adjusted via the adjustable component, so that the place the free-end of the adjustable plate touching the key portion is changed, and the force the adjustable plate clicking the switch module is accordingly changed, which provides function that the user can adjust the click force finely to a suitable one. | ||||||
| 88 | Rotary control with haptic effects and method of manufacturing thereof | US13074691 | 2011-03-29 | US08610013B2 | 2013-12-17 | Robert Schmidt; Charles B. Banter |
| A rotary switch assembly includes a knob, a wheel joined to the knob, a first frame that moves toward the wheel, a second frame joined to the first frame, and a shape memory alloy member made from a shape memory alloy and joined to the second frame. The shape memory alloy member changes shape, and the second frame transforms the changing shape of the shape memory alloy member into movement of the first frame. | ||||||
| 89 | Mouse device operable with variable button-pressing force | US12836828 | 2010-07-15 | US08537114B2 | 2013-09-17 | Qin-Hua Ma |
| A mouse device is operable with a variable button-pressing force. The mouse device includes a mouse base, a mouse case, a button disposed on the mouse case, a pressing plate contacted with the button, and the sliding member contacted with the pressing plate. The sliding member is partially protruded out of the mouse base, and movable with respect to the mouse base. When the sliding member is moved to a first position and contacted with a first touching part of the pressing plate, the force required for pressing the button is equal to a first downward external force. Whereas, when the sliding member is moved to a second position and contacted with a second touching part of the pressing plate, the force required for pressing the button is equal to a second downward external force. | ||||||
| 90 | INPUT DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | US13460070 | 2012-04-30 | US20130140165A1 | 2013-06-06 | Yin Yu Lin; Yen-Bo Lai; Shu I Chen |
| An input device and a manufacturing method of the input device are provided. The input device includes a circuit board and a plurality of mechanical switches. The circuit board has a first surface, a second surface and a plurality of conductive sheets. A plurality of holes are formed on the circuit board and the conductive sheets are disposed at one side of the first surface in pairs around the hole, and the conductive sheets have a coupling section bent toward the first surface along the direction of the second surface. The mechanical switches are detachable from the circuit board and include a plunger and a plurality of pins. Each of the plungers has a positioning column embedded in the hole. One end of the pin is connected to the plunger, and the other end of the pin is attached to the coupling section of the conductive sheets. | ||||||
| 91 | ROTARY CONTROL WITH HAPTIC EFFECTS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | US13074691 | 2011-03-29 | US20120247934A1 | 2012-10-04 | Robert SCHMIDT; Charles B. BANTER |
| A rotary switch assembly includes a knob, a wheel joined to the knob, a first frame that moves toward the wheel, a second frame joined to the first frame, and a shape memory alloy member made from a shape memory alloy and joined to the second frame. The shape memory alloy member changes shape, and the second frame transforms the changing shape of the shape memory alloy member into movement of the first frame. | ||||||
| 92 | Module For Controlling A Force Required To Actuate An Electromechanical Actuator | US12815485 | 2010-06-15 | US20110303043A1 | 2011-12-15 | Justin Tang |
| A force control module, assembly, or device for controlling a force required to actuate an electromechanical actuator or a set of electromechanical actuators. The electromechanical actuator is for example a computer mouse button, a keypad, or a joystick button. The force control module includes a lever element that is couplable to the electromechanical actuator, and a fulcrum element that is engageable with the lever element at a pivot point or fulcrum point. A displacement of the fulcrum element relative to the lever element varies a position of the fulcrum point. The force required for actuating the electromechanical actuator is at least partially dependent upon the position of the fulcrum point. By displacing the fulcrum element relative to the lever element, and hence varying the position of the fulcrum point, a user can vary the force required for actuating the electromechanical actuator. | ||||||
| 93 | Input device and electronic device using the input device | US10525792 | 2003-08-19 | US20070080951A1 | 2007-04-12 | Shigeaki Maruyama; Shigeki Motoyama; Ivan Poupyrev; Keiichi Kimura |
| The present invention related to an input device including: an image display unit (30) that displays information; a touch panel (15) with which a user performs input operation of information by touching a portion corresponding to the position at which the information of the image display unit is displayed; a vibration generation device (71) disposed in the image display unit and feeds back, to the user, various kinds of sense of touch in accordance with the type of the information through the touch panel; and a vibration control circuit (73) for allowing the vibration generation device to generate various forms of vibrations in accordance with the type of the information. The vibration generation device is a bimorph piezoelectric actuator. Each of first and second actuator units has multi-layered piezoelectric elements (63). By this way, it is possible to provide an input/output device capable of surely realizing a feedback to user's input operation performed in accordance with the type of information through the sense of touch when the user performs an input operation of information to a touch panel using the sense of touch. | ||||||
| 94 | Button apparatus with a complex elastic unit | US10342208 | 2003-01-15 | US20030136658A1 | 2003-07-24 | Chien-Shih Hsu; Yai-Kun Tsai |
| A button apparatus with dual elastic elements includes a base, a key top located above the base, an elevation mechanism, and a complex elastic unit. The elevation mechanism is used to execute lifting and lowering operation between the base and the key top. The complex elastic unit, positioned between the base and the key top for providing resilience to the button apparatus, further includes a lower elastic element mounted on the base and an upper elastic element mounted under the key top. When the button apparatus is operated, an S-shaped resilience pattern can be provided by the complex elastic unit to generate a two-step punch feeling back to the user. Thereby, controllability of the button apparatus can be enhanced. | ||||||
| 95 | Keyboard keys or mouse buttons with active rebound | US09470103 | 1999-12-21 | US06466201B1 | 2002-10-15 | David Koizumi |
| An active rebound circuit has a device that assists users lift their finger upward to relieve some repetitive motion stress. The device is configured to respond with a rebound force when a user's finger applies a particular force to the device. The rebound force is sufficient to provide substantial reduction in work expended in moving the finger in the opposite direction to the particular force applied by the user's finger. | ||||||
| 96 | Apparatus for electronic photography using a conventional film camera | US142765 | 1993-10-26 | US5452000A | 1995-09-19 | Itzhak Sapir |
| Apparatus for operating a conventional film camera having a conventional film back and defining an image plane, in an electronic mode of operation including a video module insertable inside a camera in the place of a conventional film and forward of the conventional film back and comprising a detector array disposed in the image plane and electronic circuitry associated with the detector array for still video image acquisition. | ||||||
| 97 | Molded keyboard and method of fabricating same | US822866 | 1986-01-27 | USRE32419E | 1987-05-12 | Craig E. Rooney |
| A moldable, impulse operation synthetic resin keyboard, and a method of fabricating the same, are provided wherein the keyboard achieves essentially standard, tactile feed and feedback, mechanical N-key rollover protection and precise, reliable output. The keyboard includes a synthetic resin base plate having a plurality of elongated, cantilever mounted flippers, along with a plurality of elongated, laterally spaced, inwardly and opposedly extending, pivotal, key-supporting arms. Upon depression of a key, the associated flipper is deformed until a release point is reached, whereupon the flipper is disengaged, allowing the flipper to quickly return to its rest position. A keyboard output is developed as the flipper, during overtravel thereof past its rest position, strikes a signal-generating assembly. | ||||||
| 98 | Molded keyboard and method of fabricating same | US244054 | 1981-03-16 | US4359613A | 1982-11-16 | Craig E. Rooney |
| A moldable, impulse operation synthetic resin keyboard, and a method of fabricating the same, are provided wherein the keyboard achieves essentially standard, tactile feel and feedback, mechanical N-key rollover protection and precise, reliable output. The keyboard includes a synthetic resin base plate having a plurality of elongated, cantilever mounted flippers, along with a plurality of elongated, laterally spaced, inwardly and opposedly extending, pivotal, key-supporting arms. Upon depression of a key, the associated flipper is deformed until a release point is reached, whereupon the flipper is disengaged, allowing the flipper to quickly return to its rest position. A keyboard output is developed as the flipper, during overtravel thereof past its rest position, strikes a signal-generating assembly. | ||||||
| 99 | Tactile layer having hinged dome | US841918 | 1977-10-13 | US4127758A | 1978-11-28 | Blaine G. Lowthorp |
| A tactile layer for use in combination with diaphragm-type switch keyboards to impact a tactile signal to the user upon depression of a key. The tactile layer comprises a sheet of Mylar polyester material having integrally formed deformations therein wherein the deformation is in the form of an annular ring hingedly supporting a dome shaped projection about a generally circular transition line, the transition line being displaced a first predetermined distance from the plane of the sheet which is less than the distance which the top of the dome shaped projection is displaced from the plane of the sheet. | ||||||
| 100 | Methods of manufacturing tactile switch for keyboards and the like | US558481 | 1975-03-14 | US4067102A | 1978-01-10 | Gideon A. DuRocher; Daniel J. DuRocher |
| A tactile switch plate for a keyboard member has a planar body portion provided with a plurality of outwardly deformed carrier portions corresponding in number and spacing to the number and spacing of the keys of the keyboard. Each of the carrier portions is resiliently flexible for movement toward the plane of the body and each carrier portion carries a preferably elastomeric switching member that is adapted to bridge the conductors and establish an electrical circuit between the conductors. The plate and switching members are produced by a molding process and the elastomeric switching members are cured by heat. | ||||||
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