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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsTimothy Carlyle Shaw, Jim Tom Belesiu, Paul Henry Dietz, Christopher Harry Stoumbos, Dennis J. Mathias
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Pressure sensitive key techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a device includes at least one pressure sensitive key having a flexible contact layer spaced apart from a sensor substrate by a spacer layer, the flexible contact layer configured to flex responsive to pressure to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input, for a computing device, associated with the pressure sensitive key. At least one of the flexible contact layer or the sensor substrate are configured to at least partially normalize an output resulting from pressure applied at a first location of the flexible contact layer with an output resulting from pressure applied at a second location of the flexible contact layer that has lesser flexibility than the first location.
An input device comprising a plurality of pressure sensitive keys configured to initiate corresponding inputs of a computing device, the pressure sensitive keys formed from a flexible contact layer spaced apart from a sensor substrate by a spacer layer, a first pressure sensitive key configured to have a greater sensitivity to pressure than a second pressure sensitive key through a configuration of one or more conductors within the sensor substrate.
An input device as described in claim 43, wherein the first pressure sensitive key has associated conductors that have an electrical resistance that is less than an electrical resistance of associated conductors of the second pressure sensitive key.
A method of manufacturing an input device, the input device comprising a plurality of pressure sensitive keys configured to initiate corresponding inputs of a computing device, the method comprising:
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A keyboard comprising a plurality of pressure sensitive keys, the pressure sensitive keys formed from a flexible contact layer spaced apart from a sensor substrate by a spacer layer and configured to initiate corresponding inputs of a computing device responsive to applied pressure to the pressure sensitive keys, a first pressure sensitive key configured to have a greater sensitivity to pressure than a second pressure sensitive key through a configuration of one or more conductors within the sensor substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.