H03K 17/9627
Optical touch switches
Official title: {Optical touch switches}
H03K17/9627 (Optical touch switches) appears on 202 US grants and 205 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03K- Granted patents
- 202
- Published applications
- 205
- Assignees
- 154
- Inventors
- 401
- Latest grant
- 7 Jul 2026
Filings by year
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| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 2 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 3 |
| 2003 | 1 | 6 |
| 2004 | 2 | 4 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5 |
| 2007 | 5 | 6 |
| 2008 | 3 | 9 |
| 2009 | 4 | 5 |
| 2010 | 3 | 10 |
| 2011 | 4 | 8 |
| 2012 | 1 | 8 |
| 2013 | 6 | 9 |
| 2014 | 11 | 10 |
| 2015 | 7 | 11 |
| 2016 | 14 | 12 |
| 2017 | 14 | 18 |
| 2018 | 9 | 10 |
| 2019 | 20 | 13 |
| 2020 | 13 | 12 |
| 2021 | 9 | 12 |
| 2022 | 11 | 7 |
| 2023 | 6 | 9 |
| 2024 | 11 | 5 |
| 2025 | 6 | 5 |
| 2026 | 1 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- IR timing calibration for a key switch7 Jul 2026US 12,676,612 B2Logitech Europe S. A.
- Touchless elevator user interface30 Sep 2025US 12,428,262 B2Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
- Touchless computer interfaces16 Sep 2025US 12,417,670 B2
- Touch input device19 Aug 2025US 12,395,172 B2Darfon Electronics Corp.
- Gaming machine operation button, and control deck and gaming machine comprising same15 Jul 2025US 12,361,781 B2OMRON Corporation
- Switch device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312584 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
- Contactless button and button23 Apr 2026US 2026/0113036 A1Darwin Precisions Corporation
- Touchless computer interfaces19 Mar 2026US 2026/0080738 A1Touch-Less Gaming, LLC
- Ir timing calibration for a key switch25 Sep 2025US 2025/0300656 A1Logitech Europe S. A.
- Virtual mouse14 Aug 2025US 2025/0258569 A1Architectronics Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Touch position sensitive surface279US 4,484,179 AAT&T Bell Laboratories · 1984
- Keyboard having touch sensor keys for conveying information electronically220US 5,341,133 ARowland Institute for Science · 1994
- Photoelectric proximity detector and switch164US 5,103,085 A1992
- Electro-optical scanning system with gyrating scan head151US 5,371,347 AGAP Technologies, Inc. · 1994
- Light beam scanning pen, scan module for the device and method of utilization133US 5,932,860 AGEO Labs, Inc. · 1999