Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Input device and electronic apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 输入设备和电子设备
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Application No.: US12211433Application Date: 2008-09-16
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Publication No.: US08060164B2Publication Date: 2011-11-15
- Inventor: Kouichiro Takashima , Seiji Muramatsu , Tsutomu Takahashi , Shun Kayama , Yukiko Shimizu , Takashi Sawada , Satoshi Kushima , Yuuji Arataki , Hiroshi Yokoyama , Kazuhiko Takeda
- Applicant: Kouichiro Takashima , Seiji Muramatsu , Tsutomu Takahashi , Shun Kayama , Yukiko Shimizu , Takashi Sawada , Satoshi Kushima , Yuuji Arataki , Hiroshi Yokoyama , Kazuhiko Takeda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation,Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation,Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Agency: SNR Denton US LLP
- Priority: JP2007-246071 20070921; JP2008-033833 20080214; JP2008-180806 20080710
- Main IPC: H04M1/00
- IPC: H04M1/00

Abstract:
An input device that inputs information by a slide operation depending on an operation body contains a housing including an operation surface, a detection unit that is provided in the housing and detects a slide position inputted by a slide operation depending on the operation body, and an operation unit that covers at least a portion of the detection unit and is slide-operated along the operation surface of the housing. The operation unit has a convex shape which becomes thicker along the sliding direction from one portion of the operation surface of the housing and also which becomes thinner toward the other portion of the operation surface thereof.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090103250A1 INPUT DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-04-23
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