Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Input device
- Patent Title (中): 输入设备
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Application No.: US13629816Application Date: 2012-09-28
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Publication No.: US08759743B2Publication Date: 2014-06-24
- Inventor: Toru Mizutani , Naoki Shibata , Yusuke Shimizu
- Applicant: Nitto Denko Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Ibaraki-shi
- Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
- Current Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Ibaraki-shi
- Agency: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP
- Priority: JP2011-222699 20111007
- Main IPC: G01J1/04
- IPC: G01J1/04 ; G06F3/042

Abstract:
An input device capable of lowering the vertical position of light beams traveling within the frame of a frame-shaped optical waveguide without using optical path conversion is provided. The input device includes a light-emitting module incorporating a light-emitting element connected to light-emitting cores of the optical waveguide, and a light-receiving module incorporating a light-receiving element connected to light-receiving cores of the optical waveguide. A section of the optical waveguide on a light-receiving side, in which the light-receiving cores are formed, is placed upside down so that an over cladding layer is positioned on the underside. Accordingly, the light-receiving module is also placed upside down. Thus, the light-receiving module protrudes along the height thereof in such a manner that the amount of downward protrusion is less than the amount of upward protrusion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130087691A1 INPUT DEVICE Public/Granted day:2013-04-11
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