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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information input device capable of excellently transmitting a pressure by a pressurizing operation to a pressure sensor and surely inputting information by the pressurizing operation.SOLUTION: The information input device includes a panel member 4 capable of input instruction by the pressurizing operation, a support part 2b provided in a device body so as to support the peripheral edge of the panel member 4, and a pressure detection part 20 disposed between the panel part 4 and the support part 2b and capable of detecting the input instruction. The pressure detection part 20 includes a first substrate 21 disposed on the side of the panel member 4, a second substrate 22 disposed on the side of the support part 2b while facing the first substrate 21, the pressure sensor 23 disposed between the first substrate 21 and the second substrate 22, for generating a potential by the clamping pressure of both substrates, and a connection part 24 positioned only on the counter center side of the panel member 4 relative to the pressure sensor 23 and connecting the first substrate 21 and the second substrate 22.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mounting structure of a touch input device of excellent water-proof and dust-proof properties, which can restrain deterioration of visibility of a display part of a display device even when mounting a pressure sensitive sensor, and includes the pressure sensitive sensor which easily detects pressure with high measuring precision. SOLUTION: The mounting structure for the touch input device includes the touch input device 4 equipped with a touch panel 10 and the pressure sensitive sensor 20 bonded onto an under face of the touch panel 10, and a casing 2 formed recessedly to have a step difference allowing engagement-in from an outside of the touch input device 4, and having, on a bottom face thereof, a frame-like support part 2b for supporting a recess or an opening part for the display device, and a reverse face peripheral edge part of the touch input device 4, the pressure sensitive sensor 20 includes a pressure concentration member 26 lamination-arranged distributedly to support a pressure sensitive ink member on a reverse face, a frame-like gasket 40 is bonded between the pressure sensitive sensor 20 and the support part 2b of the casing 2, and the gasket 40 is non-overlapped with the pressure concentration member 26. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mount structure of a tactile feeling feedback type touch panel having superior shock-resistant, anti-dust, and anti-drip properties for effectively relaying the vibration of a vibrating element. SOLUTION: The mount structure of a tactile feeling feedback type touch panel includes: a touch panel body; a design sheet laminated onto the upper surface of the touch panel body, and having a transparent window part and a decorated part surrounding the transparent window part; a vibrating element formed on a rear periphery of the touch panel body and hidden by the decorated part; a housing concavely formed having a step allowing insertion, from the exterior, of the touch panel body, the design sheet, and the vibrating element, and on the bottom surface, having a concave part or aperture for a display device, and a frame-shaped supporting part supporting a rear periphery of the touch panel body; an elastic member frame arranged on the supporting part, and positioned more toward an outer edge side of the touch panel body than the vibrator; and a tactile feeling feedback control part arranged in the interior of the housing, and adding a driving voltage to the vibrating element by detecting a pressurizing operation to the touch panel body. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pressure detection unit equipped with a load transmission member which functions stably over a long period. SOLUTION: The pressure detection unit 20 includes first and second substrates 21, 22 disposed facing in the pressure detection unit, and receiving a load from the outside; a pressure detection section 23, having a pair of electrodes 21a, 22a disposed in between the electrodes 21, 22 as well as, aranged between/on the first and second substrates 21, 22, and conductive pressure-sensitive ink members 23a, 23b disposed across a pair of the electrodes 21a, 22a, and having an electrical characteristic changed by the load; and the load transmission member 24, disposed at least between the first substrate 21 and the pressure detection section 23 or between the second substrate 22 and the pressure detection section 23, and concentrating and transmitting the load to the pressure detection section 23. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flexurally vibrating actuator which is suitable for the purpose of use of a touch panel, and small and light in weight, has high resistance to falling, is made thin and improved in productivity, and a touch panel with a tactile sensation feedback function using this flexurally vibrating actuator. SOLUTION: The flexurally vibrating actuator 1 is provided with: a vibrator configured of a shim 5 composed of a thin plate-shaped body and piezo-elements 7 respectively mounted on both the surface and back sides of the shim 5; a vibrator holding part 3 for holding the one end or central section of the longitudinal direction of the shim 5 as a root side end section; and a cushion layer 10 mounted on the piezoelectric element 7 on at least one surface. Also, this touch panel with a tactile sensation feedback function is configured such that the flexural vibration type actuator 1 is fixed by the vibrator holding part 3 at the prescribed place of the peripheral edge of the back surface of the touch panel body 20 by arranging the cushion layer 10 at least on the side opposite to the surface facing the touch panel body 20. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pressure-sensitive sensor capable of layering pressure-sensitive ink layers and electrodes with satisfactory productivity, facilitating control over the contact between the pressure-sensitive ink layers and the electrodes by a load, satisfactorily reproducing resistance values between the pressure-sensitive ink layers and the electrodes by the load, and highly accurately measuring pressure. SOLUTION: The pressure-sensitive sensor 40 includes a substrate film 31 formed by connecting trapezoidal shapes to a rectangular shape each from its four sides with their lower bottoms as connection lines in a plan-view shape; a pair of the electrodes 16a and 16b formed in a ring shape in the part of the rectangular shape of the substrate film 31 along its circumferential edge; and the pressure-sensitive ink layers 30 formed in the parts of the trapezoidal shapes of the substrate film 31 in such a way as to be in parallel with the pair of electrodes 16a and 16b. The pressure-sensitive ink layers 30 are layers of which electric characteristics change when pressed. With folding lines 50 indicated by the two-dot chain lines of (1) in Fig. 2 as axes, the parts of the trapezoidal shapes are folded to the inside in such a way that the pair of electrodes 16a ad 16b may come into contact with the pressure-sensitive ink layers 30. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a non-contact type IC card with a high bending stress, capable of reducing manufacturing labor and suppressing the generation of disturbances in an electric field. SOLUTION: Both the faces of an intermediate sheet 6 provided with an insulating sheet 1 having a pair of two adjacently opposed linear holes 2, an antenna coil 4 spirally forming a conductor pattern layer 3 on both the faces and side faces of a part held between the linear holes 2 formed on the sheet 1 and an IC chip 5 connected to the terminal of the coil 4 are respectively coated with card-like resin layers 7 or paper layers. The sheet 6 has plural through holes and the resin layers 7 formed on both the faces of the sheet 6 are stuck close to each other through the through holes.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mount structure of a touch panel which is also used as a speaker having superior shock-resistant, anti-dust, and anti-drip properties for effectively relaying the vibration of a vibrating element. SOLUTION: The mount structure of a touch panel which is also used as a speaker includes: a touch panel body; a design sheet laminated onto the upper surface of the touch panel body, and having a transparent window part and a decorated part surrounding the transparent window part; a vibrating element formed on a rear periphery of the touch panel body and hidden by the decorated part; a housing concavely formed having a step allowing nesting, from the exterior, of the touch panel body, the design sheet, and the vibrating element, and on the bottom surface, having a concave part or aperture for a display device, and a frame-shaped supporting part supporting a rear periphery of the touch panel body; an elastic member frame arranged on the supporting part, and positioned more toward an outer edge side of the touch panel body than the vibrator; and a speaker control part arranged in the interior of the housing, and adding a driving voltage to the vibrating element so that a voice can be reproduced. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensive resistive film type touch panel with excellent visibility, which has a pressure detection function that detects the pressing position on a screen (x, y coordinates) as well as the pressure in z axis direction.SOLUTION: The resistive film type transparent touch panel is configured by overlapping a first member and a second member so that first and second transparent conductive films face each other with a predetermined gap. In the first member, the first transparent conductive film as a resistance film is formed on the upper face of a transparent board, and a first pair of electrodes for position detection are formed at the both ends of a first direction of the first transparent conductive film. In the second member, the second transparent conductive film as a resistance film is formed on the lower face of a flexible transparent film, and a second pair of electrodes for position detection are formed at the both ends of a second direction which is orthogonal to the first direction of the second transparent conductive film. The pressing point is detected on the basis of the potentials of the first and second pairs of electrodes for position detection.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pressure sensitive sensor for facilitating pressure detection by preventing excessive reduction in resistivity between a pair of electrodes by a tunnel barrier between the electrodes and a pressure sensitive conductive layer. SOLUTION: This pressure sensitive sensor comprises a substrate 7 having a pair of electrodes 5 and 6, and the pressure sensitive conducting layer 8 where the pair of electrodes 5 and 6 in the substrate 7 and the gap between the pair of electrodes 5 and 6 are covered and tunnel current flows between conductive particles, included inside following the application of the pressure to change the insulation state to the current-carrying state. The insulation layer 9 with a thickness that allows the tunnel current flow to be interposed in between the electrodes 5 and 6 and the pressure sensitive conducting layer 8. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT