Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Input device and electronic apparatus
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Application No.: US15562314Application Date: 2016-02-16
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Publication No.: US10671180B2Publication Date: 2020-06-02
- Inventor: Taizo Nishimura , Hiroto Kawaguchi , Hiroshi Mizuno , Takashi Itaya , Akira Ebisui , Tomoko Katsuhara , Yoshiteru Taka
- Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Chip Law Group
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@16d1c3b4
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/000784 WO 20160216
- International Announcement: WO2016/163061 WO 20161013
- Main IPC: G06F3/044
- IPC: G06F3/044 ; G06F3/023 ; G06F3/02 ; H03M11/12 ; H03M11/10 ; H03M11/24 ; G06F3/01 ; H03K17/96 ; H01H13/85

Abstract:
Provided are an input device and an electronic apparatus each including capacitive elements and being capable of allowing a plurality of information items to be separately input by simple operations. The input device includes: a capacitive element; a conductor that can be electrostatically coupled to the capacitive element; an operation portion that allows a load to be applied to the conductor; and a retaining portion that retains the conductor apart from the capacitive element. The retaining portion is capable of displacing the conductor with respect to the capacitive element in a stepwise manner in accordance with the load that is applied to the conductor through intermediation of the operation portion, and is capable of retaining the conductor at a plurality of positions with respect to the capacitive element.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180348889A1 INPUT DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-12-06
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