Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Input device with a touchscreen or touchpad and input part with snap haptics located therein
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Application No.: US17269309Application Date: 2020-08-27
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Publication No.: US11941218B2Publication Date: 2024-03-26
- Inventor: Norbert Bauer , Thomas Kleffel
- Applicant: PREH GMBH
- Applicant Address: DE Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale
- Assignee: PREH GMBH
- Current Assignee: PREH GMBH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Bad Neustadt A. D. Saale
- Agency: M&B IP Analysts, LLC
- Priority: DE 2019126849.4 2019.10.07
- International Application: PCT/EP2020/074003 2020.08.27
- International Announcement: WO2021/069145A 2021.04.15
- Date entered country: 2021-02-18
- Main IPC: G06F3/044
- IPC: G06F3/044 ; G06F3/01 ; G06F3/0362 ; G06F3/041

Abstract:
The invention relates to an input device comprising: a touch-sensitive input surface facing towards an operator (B); a detection device for the spatially resolved detection of an approach towards and touch on the touch-sensitive input surface having a sensor array for capacitive and/or inductive detection, which extends parallel to the input surface; an input part, which is disposed on the input surface and mounted so as to be movable from a rest position (X0) into an actuation position (XE) along an actuating direction (B1) extending perpendicularly to the input surface, for enabling a performance of an operating input by the operator (B) through a manual displacement of the input part along the actuating direction (B1); a position indicator for contactless position detection, which is attached to the input part and cooperates with the detection device; restoring means for generating a restoring force (F) with snap haptics counteracting the manual shifting from the rest position (X0); wherein the detection device is designed for acquiring a course over time of an approach towards the touch-sensitive input surface by means of a course over time of a sensor signal (Z(t)) of the detection device and to analyze the course over time of the sensor signal (Z(t)) and/or an associated frequency spectrum, and is further designed to assign a switching or controlling function exclusively if it was found in the preceding analysis that the course over time of the sensor signal (Z(t)) and/or the associated frequency spectrum has characteristics that are predefined by the snap haptics.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220308706A1 INPUT DEVICE WITH A TOUCHSCREEN OR TOUCHPAD AND INPUT PART WITH SNAP HAPTICS LOCATED THEREIN Public/Granted day:2022-09-29
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