201 |
Electronic devices with a liquid crystal display |
US101714 |
1993-08-02 |
US5418760A |
1995-05-23 |
Kazuyo Kawashima; Yoshimi Ishikawa |
An electronic device including a switch member which has a multiplicity of switch contacts provided thereon, a film liquid crystal display unit disposed above the switch member and having openings provided at positions opposite to the respective switch contacts, and operation members disposed in the corresponding openings so as to depress the operation members from above the film liquid crystal display. By the depression of the respective operation members, the corresponding switch contacts are switched. According to this structure, the switching operations are performed on the film liquid crystal display unit, so that the operability of the switches is improved and the device itself is miniaturized. |
202 |
Keyboard for under water use |
US902711 |
1992-06-23 |
US5180237A |
1993-01-19 |
Yen-Chin Chen |
A keyboard housing includes a key plate with a plurality of actuator keys mounted on an upper face and a waterproof chamber mounted on a lower face thereof and a device to retain the actuator keys in a normally unpressed position. A circuit board is disposed in the waterproof chamber. A switch contact assembly mounted on the lower face of the key plate which includes a first membrane having a first conductive pattern, a second membrane having a second conductive pattern and a partition membrane disposed between the first and second membranes to separate the first conductive pattern from the second conductive pattern in a normal open switch. The partition membrane includes a hole device which permits a portion of the first conductive pattern to engage with a portion of the second conductive pattern when the first membrane is pressed by one of the actuator keys, thereby generating a signal corresponding to the pressing key. The periphery of the first membrane is adhesively connected to a face of the partition membrane, and the periphery of the second membrane is adhesively connected to the other face of the partition membrane. The conductive patterns of the first and second membranes are electrically connected to the circuit board. |
203 |
Construction of fitting flexible board within electronic apparatus |
US082514 |
1987-08-07 |
US4901193A |
1990-02-13 |
Seiichi Kinugawa; Seio Kainoh; Takashi Kawashima; Katsumi Okabe |
An electronic apparatus including a flexible circuit board, with an electric wiring pattern, having an opening therein, an a supporter for supporting the flexible circuit board, the supporter being provided with an least one protruding member, wherein the protruding member is inserted into the opening of the flexible circuit board, so that the flexible circuit board with the wiring pattern is folded over both sides of said supporter means. |
204 |
Switch control device for motor vehicle |
US92396 |
1987-09-02 |
US4788447A |
1988-11-29 |
Yasuhiro Kiyono; Yutaka Takeyama |
A switch control device for controlling a plurality of switches for actuating apparatuses of a motor vehicle, respectively, including at least one stop mode switch allowed to be operated only in a stop state of the motor vehicle and at least one running mode switch allowed to be operated in a running state of the motor vehicle and provided separately from the stop mode switch such that input operation of the stop mode switch and the running mode switch is regulated on the basis of whether the motor vehicle is in the stop state or in the running state. |
205 |
Switch control device for motor vehicle |
US929851 |
1986-11-13 |
US4705959A |
1987-11-10 |
Yasuhiro Kiyono; Yutaka Takeyama |
A switch control device for controlling a plurality of switches for actuating apparatuses of a motor vehicle, respectively, including at least one stop mode switch allowed to be operated only in a stop state of the motor vehicle and at least one running mode switch allowed to be operated in a running state of the motor vehicle and provided separately from the stop mode switch such that input operation of the stop mode switch and the running mode switch is regulated on the basis of whether the motor vehicle is in the stop state or in the running state. |
206 |
Switch control device for motor vehicle |
US762471 |
1985-08-05 |
US4691116A |
1987-09-01 |
Yasuhiro Kiyono; Yutaka Takeyama |
A switch control device for controlling a plurality of switches for actuating apparatuses of a motor vehicle, respectively, including at least one stop mode switch allowed to be operated only in a stop state of the motor vehicle and at least one running mode switch allowed to be operated in a running state of the motor vehicle and provided separately from the stop mode switch such that input operation of the stop mode switch and the running mode switch is regulated on the basis of whether the motor vehicle is in the stop state or in the running state. |
207 |
Connection structure |
US790960 |
1985-10-24 |
US4683519A |
1987-07-28 |
Osamu Murakami |
Connection structure for connecting electrically and mechanically electronic components or devices, such as a printed circuit board, an LSI, an IC, a display device, a switch, a printer unit or a battery, by using a noise shield plate which is made from an electrically conductive resilient thin plate for shielding electrically the electronic components from external electrical noise and which is contained in the case. The connection structure greatly reduces the number of parts required for the structure and the number of assembly steps when assembling the structure, and thus the connection structure is provided at a lower cost. |
208 |
Sheet-like miniaturized electronic device |
US825953 |
1986-02-04 |
US4680724A |
1987-07-14 |
Kazuhiro Sugiyama; Tatsuo Shimazaki |
A sheet-like miniaturized electronic device includes an electronic component assembly with a wiring base having switch contacts and a semiconductor IC chip operated by signals from the switch contacts. A display panel displays data according to signals from the semiconductor IC chip, and a battery supplies a drive voltage to the semiconductor IC chip. The wiring base, display panel and battery are electrically connected to one another and arranged in the same plane. An upper cover is provided in close contact with the upper side of the electronic component assembly, and has an operating section and a transparent display window. A lower cover is provided through an adhesive layer to the underside of the electronic component assembly. |
209 |
Device and method for connecting a printed circuit film |
US777831 |
1985-09-19 |
US4643497A |
1987-02-17 |
Jurgen Oelsch |
A flexible carrier film with a printed circuit thereon is provided in comation with a terminal device which provides a plurality of terminal connection pins. A first part of the printed circuit contains a plurality of conductors, and a second part contains a plurality of resistor strips for supplying voltage levels to each conductor. In order to connect the first and second parts without crossings, a grid of connection strips is provided between the conductor strips and resistor strips and connected thereto. The film is bent along a score line extending through the grid and at a right angle thereto, with the conductor strips and resistor strips located on the outside of the folded film. The film is then clamped to the terminal device at the score line so that each connection strip is clamped on both sides of the score line. |
210 |
Input device |
US771889 |
1985-09-03 |
US4628408A |
1986-12-09 |
Kiyoshi Kimura |
An input device for use in a display unit such as a CRT includes a lower electrode of an electrically conductive material and having a plurality of apertures therein, a resilient insulating base superimposed on the lower electrode and having a plurality of integral dot spacers projecting through the apertures, the resilient insulating base having recessed spaces, an upper flexible insulating sheet disposed in confronting relation to the insulating base with the dot spacers interposed therebetween, the upper flexible insulating sheet supporting an upper electrode on one surface thereof, a printed-circuit board disposed below the insulating base, and a plurality of diodes mounted on the printed-circuit board and accommodated in the spaces, the printed-circuit board having an electrically conductive pattern disposed on a lower surface thereof and connected to the diodes. The upper insulating sheet has extensions extending around sides of the insulating base and the printed-circuit board onto the lower surface of the latter, the upper electrode having terminal leads extending over the extensions and connected by a heat seal to the electrically conductive pattern. |
211 |
Keyswitch structure |
US633135 |
1984-07-23 |
US4570039A |
1986-02-11 |
Hiroshi Osawa; Isao Kurashima; Yoshio Kawai |
In a keyswitch structure, a number of recesses are formed in a lower case, and a projection with a flat top surface is formed inside each of the recesses. The recesses communicate with each other by means of grooves formed on the lower case, and fixed contacts are provided on the projections. A pattern is formed on the under surface of a flexible substrate put on the lower case so that movable contacts, included in the pattern, face the fixed contacts. An elastic sheet with a number of buttons is put on the flexible substrate, and the flexible substrate and the elastic sheet are fixedly held between an upper case and the lower case. When any of the buttons of the elastic sheet is pushed, the elastic sheet and the flexible substrate are elastically deformed to bring the movable contacts into contact with the fixed contacts. |
212 |
Button switch device |
US58105584 |
1984-02-17 |
US4558191A |
1985-12-10 |
FIG; BURGETH HEINZ; LEITNER GEORG; WOLF JOACHIM |
Series of conductors 3 and switch contact surfaces 2 are arranged on a base 1 of a button switch device. To permit additional functions aside from simple on-off switching operations to be exercised in one unit, circuit components 4, 5, 6 such as decoupling diodes, de-bouncing switch circuitry, microprocessors, display devices or the like are arranged on the base 1. These circuit components are in the form of film components and are connected to series of conductors on the base 1. |
213 |
Keyboard |
US555034 |
1983-11-22 |
US4527030A |
1985-07-02 |
Jurgen Oelsch |
A keyboard comprising a flexible-foil printed circuit in which an insulat foil or sheet substrate is provided with printed conductors and contact surfaces, in which the insulating foil sheet is provided with holes, and which includes a plurality of press buttons or keys associated with the contact surfaces, each key comprising an elastically deformable snap-action element which is adapted to be deformed upon actuation by means of an actuating button in order to bring the contact element into contact with the contact surface.The flexible-foil printed circuit comprises an insulating foil substrate having a thickness not exceeding 0.6 mm which is provided on both sides with printed conductors and on one side with electrical contact surfaces and/or contact elements. The conductors may be formed in separate printing steps for each side of the foil or sheet. Contacts extending through the holes in the substrate may be produced by means of the printing step itself during the printing of the conductors. |
214 |
Transparent capacitance membrane switch |
US407450 |
1982-08-12 |
US4431882A |
1984-02-14 |
Norman J. Frame |
A more transparent capacitance membrane switch in which capacitance elements are offset from their associated switch locations so as to be out of the transparent field of view through the switch. |
215 |
Method of manufacturing an electronic calculator utilizing a flexible
carrier |
US683366 |
1976-05-05 |
US4081898A |
1978-04-04 |
James B. Taylor, Jr.; Galen F. Fritz |
Electronic calculators are manufactured by use of a flexible insulative carrier, the carrier being a tape-like-plastic substrate a single length of which is sufficient to manufacture a plurality of the electronic calculators, wherein conductor patterns are formed on the carrier, a keyboard is formed on the carrier using selected portions of the aforementioned conductors as keyboard switch contacts and semiconductor devices are interconnected with selected conductors formed on the carrier. |
216 |
Portable calculator |
US506196 |
1974-09-16 |
US4002892A |
1977-01-11 |
Adolf H. Zielinski |
A portable electronic calculator is provided with a housing carrying a first printed circuit board having the operating parts mounted thereon, i.e., keyboard, electronic arithmetic unit, and multi-digit display unit. The housing is of rectangular outline and of shallow height, and is provided at one end with a receptacle communicating with the first printed circuit board and opening at the end of the housing. An electrical supply unit is mounted on a second printed circuit board which slides into said receptacle, said two printed circuit boards having plug-and-socket connection means therebetween for automatically making and breaking connections when said second printed circuit board and electrical supply unit are inserted into or removed from said receptacle. |
217 |
Keyboard type switch assembly having fixed and movable contacts disposed on foldable flexible printed circuit board |
US48317974 |
1974-06-25 |
US3911234A |
1975-10-07 |
KOTAKA YASUMASA |
A switch is formed from a flexible printed circuit folded about an apertured spacer so that contacts on the circuit face through the aperture and are engageable by flexure of the circuit. Suitably the spacer is of elastomer and is multi-apertured to provide a multiple or keyboard switch. The flexible circuit lamina may be provided with a logic device and visual display mounted directly on the lamina for use as an electronic logic device of simplified construction.
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218 |
Stroke coded keyboard switch assembly |
US3743797D |
1971-08-30 |
US3743797A |
1973-07-03 |
HOFFMAN C |
A stroke coded keyboard utilizes a switch matrix having crosspoints comprising deformable membrane switches. The crosspoints are connected in selected sequential pairs to deformable membrane contacts which define the elements or characters of the keyboard. An element can be keyed very rapidly by the stroke of a stylus on the top surface of the keyboard which sequentially closes the contacts defining the element. The keyboard can be utilized in many configurations such as a data entry keyboard, repertory dialer, or in parallel with or as a replacement for telephone keyboards. The character element is defined by the signals generated by a specified sequence of connections of i pairs of first (n) and second (m) conductors so that (nm) distinct characters can be defined on the keyboard by N + M conductors, where n and m are any positive integers greater than one and i is any positive integer greater than one or less than or equal to nm.
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219 |
Control keyboard switch with cantilevered contact and diode matrix array |
US3731015D |
1971-05-18 |
US3731015A |
1973-05-01 |
BRADY J |
A low profile keyboard unit including an etched circuit board and a plurality of keyboard switches mounted on one surface thereof. Individual switches include housings configured to carry in self-contained fashion up to ten diodes plus a resistor, the leads from these elements being passed through holes in the board and flow soldered at the back side of the board.
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220 |
Diaphragm pushbutton switch array for keyboards |
US3707609D |
1971-10-27 |
US3707609A |
1972-12-26 |
DAPOT MARTIN H; BOULANGER HENRY J |
A system employing a keyboard comprises a base mounting an array of key bodies each adapted to reciprocably move to cause actuation of electrical circuits. A diaphragm is employed as an electrical conductor moving into and out of engagement with underlying contacts upon actuation and deactuation of the key body. Bounding problems have been minimized while maintaining tactile feedback by locating a spring member between the key and its respective diaphragm providing increased motion differential and by providing elongate guiding surfaces which eliminate skew movement of the key. Several forms of keys and key mountings are shown embodying the elongated guideway including an elongated hub molded in the bezel plate and receiving a close fitting rod portion of the key, a separate tubular guide and close fitting plunger, and a key having tabs extending laterally therefrom, the tabs slidably received in grooves formed in the base. Another embodiment particularly useful where two or more circuits are to be actuated from the same key employs a second spring to maintain the diaphragm away from the underlying contacts until the key is depressed thereby precluding undesirable back circuits without the use of blocking diodes or the like.
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