Input Arrangement
AssigneeElektrobit Wireless Communications Oy
InventorsKim Kivela, Jarkko Vatjus-Anttila
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Abstract
The invention provides an input device of an electric apparatus and a method of manufacturing an input device, wherein the input device comprises: a key member (110) for receiving an input from a user, the key member (110) comprising a plurality of circumferentially arranged touch-sensitive sensor segments (2A to 2H) and having at least one degree of freedom with respect to the body of the electric apparatus; and a feedback unit (204) coupled to the key member (110) and configured to generate feedback to the key member (100) in the direction of the at least one degree of freedom as a response to the input.
Claims14
An input arrangement of an electric apparatus,
- characterized in that the input arrangement comprises an input device which includes:
- a key member (110) for receiving an input from a user, the key member (110) comprising a plurality of circumferentially arranged touch-sensitive sensor segments (2A to 2H) and having at least one degree of freedom with respect to the body of the electric apparatus;
- and
- a feedback unit (204) coupled to the key member (110) and configured to generate feedback to the key member (110) in the direction of the at least one degree of freedom as a response to the input.
A method of manufacturing an input device of an electric apparatus, characterized by
- forming (902) a plurality of circumferentially arranged touch-sensitive sensor segments in a key member;
- placing (904) a feedback unit to the input device;
- and
- mounting (906) the key member in the input device, thus enabling an input to be received by the key member from a user and placed with respect to the feedback unit so as to forward the feedback effect generated by the feedback unit to the contact surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.