H03K 17/98
Having a plurality of control members
Official title: having a plurality of control members, e.g. keyboard
H03K17/98 (Having a plurality of control members) appears on 172 US grants and 161 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03K- Granted patents
- 172
- Published applications
- 161
- Assignees
- 110
- Inventors
- 383
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
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| 2023 | 7 | 9 |
| 2024 | 6 | 2 |
| 2025 | 7 | 5 |
| 2026 | 1 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Device having integrated interface system19 May 2026US 12,632,116 B2Apple Inc.
- Interior member28 Oct 2025US 12,455,634 B2Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
- Human-computer interface system13 May 2025US 12,299,210 B2Sensel, Inc.
- Sensor device29 Apr 2025US 12,287,926 B2Fujikura Ltd.
- Touch button, control method, and electronic device22 Apr 2025US 12,283,948 B2Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
- Device having integrated interface system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277330 A1Apple Inc.
- Pressing key detection system, device, method, and storage medium4 Jun 2026US 2026/0153940 A1Chipsemi Semiconductor (Ningbo) Co., Ltd.
- Touch keyboard with keys23 Apr 2026US 2026/0113037 A1Solid Year Co., Ltd.
- Keyswitch substrate with sensor system11 Dec 2025US 2025/0379011 A1Logitech Europe S. A.
- Capacitive switch device27 Mar 2025US 2025/0105842 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for capacitive keyboard scanning148US 4,651,133 AAT&T Technologies, Inc. · 1987
- Touch display to digital encoding system105US 4,110,749 ATektronix, Inc. · 1978
- Capacitive touch control94US 4,158,216 AGeneral Electric Company · 1979
- Tablet for use in a coordinate digitizer88US 3,974,332 APentel Kabushiki Kaisha · 1976
- Capacitive keyswitch membrane with self contained sense-to-ground capacitance86US 4,920,343 AHoneywell Inc. · 1990