Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Input device and electronic device using the input device
- Patent Title (中): 使用输入设备的输入设备和电子设备
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Application No.: US10525792Application Date: 2003-08-19
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Publication No.: US07663604B2Publication Date: 2010-02-16
- Inventor: Shigeaki Maruyama , Shigeki Motoyama , Ivan Poupyrev , Keiichi Kimura
- Applicant: Shigeaki Maruyama , Shigeki Motoyama , Ivan Poupyrev , Keiichi Kimura
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2002-251781 20020829
- International Application: PCT/JP03/10469 WO 20030819
- International Announcement: WO2004/021160 WO 20040311
- Main IPC: G09G5/00
- IPC: G09G5/00

Abstract:
An input device includes a touch panel with which a user performs an input operation of information by touching the touch panel. The input device further includes a vibration generation device for feeding back, to the user, various kinds of sense of touch in accordance with the type of the information through the touch panel. Additionally, the input device includes a vibration control circuit 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 including a first actuator unit and a second actuator unit stacked on the first actuator unit in which when one of the first and second actuator units expands, the other contracts. Further, each of the first and second actuator units has a multi-layered piezoelectric element layer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070080951A1 Input device and electronic device using the input device Public/Granted day:2007-04-12
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