- Patent Title: Input device configuration having capacitive and pressure sensors
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Application No.: US14033510Application Date: 2013-09-22
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Publication No.: US09684382B2Publication Date: 2017-06-20
- Inventor: Timothy C. Shaw , James C. Marshall , Brian R. Cox , Carl E. Picciotto , Aric A. Fitz-Coy
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Main IPC: G06F1/16
- IPC: G06F1/16 ; G06F3/023 ; G06F3/02 ; G06F3/041 ; G06F3/044 ; H01H13/702 ; H03K17/96

Abstract:
Input device configurations are described. In one or more implementations, an input device includes a sensor substrate having one or more conductors and a flexible contact layer spaced apart from the sensor substrate. The flexible contact layer is configured to flex to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input of a computing device. The flexible contact layer includes a force concentrator pad that is configured to cause pressure to be channeled through the force concentrator pad to cause the flexible contact layer to contact the sensor substrate to initiate the input. In one or more implementations, an input device includes a capacitive sensor assembly arranged in an array that is configured to detect a location of an object that is proximal to a respective capacitive sensor of the capacitive sensor assembly and a pressure sensitive sensor assembly including a plurality of pressure sensitive sensor nodes that are configured to detect an amount of pressure applied by the object against a respective pressure sensitive sensor node of the pressure sensitive sensor assembly.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140022177A1 Input Device Configuration having Capacitive and Pressure Sensors Public/Granted day:2014-01-23
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