• Patent Title: Input device with a touchscreen or touchpad and input part with snap haptics located therein
  • Application No.: US17269309
    Application Date: 2020-08-27
  • Publication No.: US11941218B2
    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
  • Inventor: Norbert BauerThomas 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
Input device with a touchscreen or touchpad and input part with snap haptics located therein
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.
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