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公开(公告)号：US11954312B2
公开(公告)日：2024-04-09
申请号：US17804388
申请日：2022-05-27
Applicant: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
Inventor： Toshiki Nakamura , Hiroshi Shigetaka , Hirofumi Kuga , Masahiro Takata , Yasuji Hagiwara
IPC: G06F3/04842 , G06F3/041 , G06F3/0488
CPC classification number: G06F3/04842 , G06F3/0416 , G06F3/0488 , G06F2203/04806
Abstract: An input device includes a touch panel having an operation surface and configured to receive a touch input and a hover input by an operation body; a display device configured to display a plurality of selection items; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to highlight a selection item, a selection of the selection item being made by the hover input from the plurality of selection items, confirm the selection of the selection item by the hover input in a case where a duration during which the selection item is selected by the hover input reaches a first predetermined threshold, and confirm a selection of the selection item by the touch input in a case where the touch input is detected on the selection item before the duration reaches the first predetermined threshold.
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公开(公告)号：US11851919B2
公开(公告)日：2023-12-26
申请号：US16918317
申请日：2020-07-01
Applicant: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
Inventor： Toshiki Nakamura , Takashi Sasaki , Yoshiyuki Kikuchi , Yuzuru Kawana , Heishiro Fudo , Yukimitsu Yamada , Hiroshi Shigetaka
IPC: E05B81/76 , B60J5/04 , E05B85/16 , H03K17/955
CPC classification number: E05B81/77 , B60J5/04 , E05B85/16 , H03K17/955
Abstract: A door handle includes a door handle case and an electrostatic sensor provided in the door handle case. The electrostatic sensor includes a detection electrode that is formed of a flat conductor plate, or that is formed on a surface of a flat substrate or within a flat substrate. The detection electrode includes a middle portion in a longitudinal direction of the detection electrode and includes peripheral portions proximal to both end portions of the detection electrode in the longitudinal direction. For a width of the detection electrode in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, each peripheral portion is wider than the middle portion, and the width of the detection electrode gradually increases toward each end portion in the longitudinal direction.
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公开(公告)号：US11188166B2
公开(公告)日：2021-11-30
申请号：US16836380
申请日：2020-03-31
Applicant: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
Inventor： Tatsumi Fujiyoshi , Hiroshi Shigetaka
IPC: G06F3/041 , H01L41/04 , H01L41/047 , H01L41/113
Abstract: An input device that inputs information corresponding to a change in pressure due to load includes: a first charge detection circuit that outputs a first detection signal corresponding to charges generated in a first piezoelectric sensor and a second piezoelectric sensor; and a switch circuit provided on a path through which the charges are transmitted from the first and second piezoelectric sensors to the first charge detection circuit. The first charge detection circuit alternately iterates a first period in which a first charge is input from a first positive electrode via the switch circuit and a second period in which a second charge is input from a second negative electrode via the switch circuit, reverses a sign of one of the first and second charges, combines a resulting charge with the other charge, and outputs the first detection signal corresponding to the amount of accumulation of the combined charge.
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公开(公告)号：US11511605B2
公开(公告)日：2022-11-29
申请号：US16818101
申请日：2020-03-13
Applicant: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
Inventor： Tatsumi Fujiyoshi , Hiroshi Shigetaka , Daisuke Takai
Abstract: An operation input device includes a resistance element to generate a capacitance between an operating medium and the resistance element in response to an approach of the operating medium to the resistance element, and a power source to supply electric charge to one end and the other end of the resistance element. A first electric unit measures a first electric charge transfer amount supplied to the one end of the resistance element in response to generation of the capacitance. A second unit measures a second electric charge transfer amount supplied to the other end of the resistance element in response to generation of the capacitance. A controller is connected to the first and second units, and detects a position of the operating medium in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the resistance element based on a sum of the first and second electric charge transfer amounts.
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公开(公告)号：US11424086B2
公开(公告)日：2022-08-23
申请号：US17165123
申请日：2021-02-02
Applicant: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
Inventor： Yasuji Hagiwara , Daisuke Takai , Takashi Sasaki , Takeshi Masaki , Toshiki Nakamura , Masaki Ota , Hiroshi Shigetaka , Masahiro Takata
Abstract: An operation device includes a housing, an operation member, and a detector. The housing includes an electrically conductive portion on a surface thereof. The operation member is supported by the housing such that the operation member is movable in response to an operation by an operation body, and is configured to be capacitively coupled to the operation body and to the electrically conductive portion. The detector is configured to detect whether the operation body is in proximity to the operation member based on a change in capacitance at the electrically conductive portion.
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公开(公告)号：US10969895B2
公开(公告)日：2021-04-06
申请号：US16839245
申请日：2020-04-03
Applicant: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
Inventor： Wataru Sato , Daisuke Takai , Hiroshi Shigetaka , Yuzuru Kawana , Hajime Shikata
Abstract: An input device includes an operation panel, a frame disposed on a back side of the operation panel, a pressure detector disposed between the operation panel and the frame, and an elastic part. The pressure detector includes a lever including a deformation part that warps when a pressing force is applied, a protruding part provided on a first surface of the deformation part, and a surrounding wall provided on a periphery of a second surface of the deformation part; and a pressure detection element that is disposed in a region of the second surface of the deformation part surrounded by the surrounding wall, warps along with the deformation part, and outputs a pressure detection signal corresponding to the pressing force. The elastic part is disposed between the protruding part or the surrounding wall and the frame or the operation panel and applies a pre-pressure to the deformation part.
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公开(公告)号：US10298231B2
公开(公告)日：2019-05-21
申请号：US15828947
申请日：2017-12-01
Applicant: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
Inventor： Hiroshi Shigetaka , Kunio Sato , Hiroaki Takahashi , Heishiro Fudo , Jo Ri
Abstract: An input device includes a capacitive sensor and a piezoelectric sensor. The piezoelectric sensor is positioned on the front side of the capacitive sensor in a front-to-back direction from the front to the back of the input device, and is configured to change its output in response to a force applied to the piezoelectric sensor from its front side. The piezoelectric sensor includes a piezoelectric layer and a first electrode and a second electrode positioned across the piezoelectric layer from each other in the front-to-back direction. The capacitive sensor includes a capacitive sensing area where the capacitive sensor is configured to perform a sensing operation. The first electrode and the second electrode of the piezoelectric sensor do not overlap the capacitive sensing area when viewed in the front-to-back direction.
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公开(公告)号：US12175045B2
公开(公告)日：2024-12-24
申请号：US18586202
申请日：2024-02-23
Applicant: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
Inventor： Masahiro Takata , Hiroshi Shigetaka
IPC: G06F3/044
Abstract: A capacitance measurement circuit module has: a sensor electrode, for input detection, disposed on a wiring board; a sensor-side shield electrode shielding the sensor electrode; board-side measurement terminals connected to the sensor electrode; a board-side shield terminal connected to the sensor-side shield electrode; a measurement integrated circuit having circuit-side measurement terminals connected to the board-side measurement terminals and a circuit-side shield terminal connected to the board-side shield terminal, the circuit outputting measurement signals from the circuit-side measurement terminals and outputting, from the circuit-side shield terminal, a shield signal having the same frequency and phase as the measurement signals, the circuit being disposed on the wiring board and measuring capacitance of the sensor electrode; and a circuit-side shield electrode that is positioned on the wiring board so as to face the measurement integrated circuit and to be adjacent to the board-side measurement terminals and is connected to the board-side shield terminal.
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公开(公告)号：US10430006B2
公开(公告)日：2019-10-01
申请号：US15946927
申请日：2018-04-06
Applicant: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
Inventor： Hiroshi Shigetaka
Abstract: An input device includes a voltage divider circuit that includes a resistive sensor whose resistance changes in accordance with a change in pressure of a pressing operation and at least one resistor device and that, upon receiving driving voltage, generates a divider voltage according to the resistance of the resistive sensor device, a first driving circuit that alternately supplies, to the voltage divider circuit at certain time intervals, a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage for generating different divider voltages, a capacitor whose charge changes in accordance with a change in the divider voltage, and a first charge detection circuit that detects an amount of change in the charge of the capacitor at a time when the driving voltage changes from the first driving voltage to the second driving voltage and when the driving voltage changes from the second driving voltage to the first driving voltage.
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公开(公告)号：US11989370B2
公开(公告)日：2024-05-21
申请号：US18172475
申请日：2023-02-22
Applicant: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
Inventor： Hiroshi Shigetaka
CPC classification number: G06F3/0418 , G06F3/04164 , G06F3/044 , G06F2203/04107 , G06F2203/04108
Abstract: An electrostatic input device includes: a plurality of first detection electrodes that are configured to detect approach of an object within a first distance from a detection face; a second detection electrode that is provided between the plurality of first detection electrodes and configured to detect approach of the object within a second distance from the detection face, where the second distance is longer than the first distance; and a detection circuit that is configured to detect change in capacitance of the plurality of first detection electrodes and the second detection electrode.
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