H03K 17/964
Piezoelectric touch switches
Official title: {Piezoelectric touch switches}
H03K17/964 (Piezoelectric touch switches) appears on 324 US grants and 314 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03K- Granted patents
- 324
- Published applications
- 314
- Assignees
- 226
- Inventors
- 660
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2023 | 18 | 9 |
| 2024 | 15 | 12 |
| 2025 | 4 | 10 |
| 2026 | 14 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Piezoelectric button system25 Aug 2026US 12,719,474 B2Boréas Technologies Inc.
- Optical element drive mechanism18 Aug 2026US 12,710,615 B2Actutek Corporation
- Electronic device comprising piezoelectric device, and touch input detection method using piezoelectric device11 Aug 2026US 12,704,923 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Touch sensor devices11 Aug 2026US 12,704,929 B2Shenzhen Shokz Co., Ltd.
- Powered electrical wall plate with a touch-sensitive surface30 Jun 2026US 12,671,237 B1Titan3 Technology LLC
- Device having integrated interface system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277330 A1Apple Inc.
- Electronic device comprising piezoelectric device, and touch input detection method using piezoelectric device14 Aug 2025US 2025/0258565 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Piezoelectric button system26 Jun 2025US 2025/0211229 A1Boréas Technologies Inc.
- Soft phasic electronic tactile sensing elements for characterization of touch12 Jun 2025US 2025/0190066 A1Socpra Sciences Et Genie S. E. C.
- Piezoelectric transducer and pressure sensing button12 Jun 2025US 2025/0192779 A1AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Products incorporating piezoelectric material459US 5,500,635 A1996
- Flexible sensors and applications270US 9,753,568 B2BeBop Sensors, Inc. · 2017
- Piezoelectric switch with tactile response175US 5,982,304 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1999
- Image compression based on pattern fineness and edge presence156US 5,374,958 ASony Corporation · 1994
- Key for flexible keyboard130US 5,666,112 A1997