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US07800590B2 Input device, portable electronic apparatus, remote control device, and piezoelectric actuator driving/controlling method in input device 有权
输入装置,便携式电子装置,遥控装置,以及输入装置中的压电致动器驱动/控制方法

  • Patent Title: Input device, portable electronic apparatus, remote control device, and piezoelectric actuator driving/controlling method in input device
  • Patent Title (中): 输入装置,便携式电子装置,遥控装置,以及输入装置中的压电致动器驱动/控制方法
  • Application No.: US10537417
    Application Date: 2003-10-08
  • Publication No.: US07800590B2
    Publication Date: 2010-09-21
  • Inventor: Kimiyasu SatohHiroyuki Inokawa
  • Applicant: Kimiyasu SatohHiroyuki Inokawa
  • 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: JP2002-360608 20021212
  • International Application: PCT/JP03/12886 WO 20031008
  • International Announcement: WO2004/053672 WO 20040624
  • Main IPC: G09G5/00
  • IPC: G09G5/00
Input device, portable electronic apparatus, remote control device, and piezoelectric actuator driving/controlling method in input device
Abstract:
An input apparatus causes the user to feel a force sense as a feedback from an operation surface that he or she has pressed. When the input apparatus is in the standby state for the user to press the operation surface, a drive voltage is not supplied to a piezoelectric actuator. When the operation surface is pressed at timing T401, the drive voltage is gradually increased. At this point, as the piezoelectric actuator is curved, the operation surface is gradually raised. After predetermined period T1 has elapsed, at timing T402, the piezoelectric actuator is quickly curved in the reverse direction. At timing T403, the operation surface is deformed to the lowest position. This position of the operation surface is kept until the operation surface has been pressed at T404. When period T1 is sufficiently larger than period T2, immediately after the operation surface is pressed, it is deformed. Thereafter, since the operation surface is deformed in the reverse direction, the user can feel a strong force sense.
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