Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Input device having key tops
- Patent Title (中): 输入设备有键顶
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Application No.: US13233757Application Date: 2011-09-15
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Publication No.: US08669942B2Publication Date: 2014-03-11
- Inventor: Yoshiaki Nagamura , Hiroaki Nishimura , Haruka Kaneko , Tetsuya Kawamoto , Shintaro Tanaka , Takashi Tsukahara
- Applicant: Yoshiaki Nagamura , Hiroaki Nishimura , Haruka Kaneko , Tetsuya Kawamoto , Shintaro Tanaka , Takashi Tsukahara
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.
- Priority: JP2010-222294 20100930
- Main IPC: G06F3/02
- IPC: G06F3/02

Abstract:
An operation unit has an operation surface for accepting an input operation. In a plan view, the operation surface has a rectangular contour including a plurality of sides and a plurality of corner portions. When each point at which extensions of adjacent two of the plural sides cross each other is defined as a virtual intersection, and when an intersection at which respective diagonals linking the virtual intersections cross each other is defined as a virtual center, the contour of the corner portion crosses the diagonal that passes through the virtual intersection and the virtual center, at a point between the virtual intersection in the vicinity of the corner portion and the virtual center. The corner portions is a specific corner portion having an intersection with the diagonal at a position closer to the virtual center than the adjacent two corner portions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120081288A1 INPUT DEVICE HAVING KEY TOPS Public/Granted day:2012-04-05
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