Information Handling System Planar Integrated Button Touch Pad Assembly
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorLaurent A. Regimbal
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Abstract
A portable information handling system integrated button touch pad provides consistent functional displacement with support of a touch surface from separate main and click brackets. The click bracket provides consistent displacement relative to a housing and a support plane so that an integrated button touch pad adapts to different housing sizes and materials with a common support arrangement of the touch surface and a common functional displacement feel provided by flexing of a main bracket that directly supports a touch pad relative to fixed click pad position.
Claims20
A portable information handling system comprising:
- a housing having an upper surface;
- a processor disposed in the housing and operable to execute instructions to process information;
- a memory disposed in the housing and interfaced with the processor, the memory operable to store the information;
- a controller disposed in the housing and interfaced with the processor, the controller operable to accept end user inputs from one or more input devices and to communicate the end user inputs to the processor;
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- an integrated button touch pad disposed on the housing upper surface and interfaced with the controller, the integrated button touch pad having a touch surface operable to accept end user touches as inputs and to communicate the touches to the processor, the integrated button touch pad having a contiguous touch surface supported by a main bracket and a separate click bracket, the main bracket flexing to provide movement of the touch surface relative to the housing upper surface, the click bracket providing a reference surface for detection of a press by the touch surface.
A method for interfacing with a portable information handling system, the method comprising:
- disposing an integrated button touch pad on an upper surface of the portable information handling system housing;
- supporting a first portion of the integrated button touch pad on the upper surface with a main bracket disposed in a support plane;
- supporting a second portion of the integrated button touch pad on the upper surface with a click bracket disposed in the support plane, the click bracket separate from the main bracket;
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- accepting presses at the integrated button touch pad as inputs, the presses performed at the first portion and translated relative to the support plane with flexing of the main bracket for contact by an input device of the touch pad against the click bracket.
A portable information handling system integrated button touch pad comprising:
- a touch surface operable to detect touches and communicate the touches to a controller as inputs to an information handling system;
- a first bracket supporting a first portion of the touch surface in a support plane;
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- a second bracket supporting a second portion of the touch surface in the support plane;
- wherein the touch surface moves responsive to a press at the second portion, the touch surface movement communicated to the portable information handling system as an input by flexing the second bracket to press the first portion against the first bracket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.