Input device
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
InventorsTomomi SHIMIZU, Kenji MURATA, Keita NAKANE
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Abstract
An input device includes an operation unit to receive an operation, at least one load detection unit to detect a load on the operation unit and detect the load according to capacitance between a pair of conductors, and a substrate on which an electrode as one of the pair of conductors of the load detection unit is arranged. The load detection unit includes the electrode, an operation deformation portion to deform in response to an operation on the operation unit, and a detection electrode as the other of the pair of conductors. The electrode, the operation deformation portion and the detection electrode are located between the substrate and the operation unit and arranged in this order from the substrate.
Claims10
An input device, comprising:
- an operation unit to receive an operation;
- at least one load detection unit to detect a load on the operation unit and detect the load according to capacitance between a pair of conductors;
- and
- a substrate on which an electrode as one of the pair of conductors of the load detection unit is arranged,
- wherein the load detection unit comprises the electrode, an operation deformation portion to deform in response to an operation on the operation unit, and a detection electrode as the other of the pair of conductors, and
- wherein the electrode, the operation deformation portion and the detection electrode are located between the substrate and the operation unit and arranged in this order from the substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.