Inductance Coil of a Capacitance Module
AssigneeCirque Corporation
InventorsPaul GLAD, Douglas STECK
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Abstract
A capacitance module may include at least one touch electrode on a first surface of the capacitance module; a first portion of an inductance coil deposited on a second surface of the capacitance module; and a second portion of the inductance coil deposited on a third surface of the capacitance module where the first portion of the inductance coil and the second portion of the inductance coil may be electrically connected and where the inductance coil may be positioned to interact with a magnet adjacent to the inductance coil.
Claims22
A capacitance module, comprising:
- at least one touch electrode on a first surface of the capacitance module;
- a first portion of an inductance coil deposited on a second surface of the capacitance module;
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- the first portion of the inductance coil has a plurality of loops;
- a second portion of the inductance coil deposited on a third surface of the capacitance module;
- the second portion of the inductance coil has a plurality of loops;
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- each of the plurality of loops of the first portion of the inductance coil is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of loops of the second portion of the inductance coil;
- wherein the inductance coil is positioned to interact with a magnet adjacent to the inductance coil.
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A computer-program product for detecting a pressure input, the computer-program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to:
- receive an input from an inductance coil formed on multiple substrate layers of a capacitance module where the capacitance module has a surface having a plurality of corners, the inductance coil is part of a group of inductance coils, and at least one of the inductance coils from the group of inductance coils is located near each of the corners of the surface;
- determine that a user is applying pressure to the capacitance module based at least in part on the received input;
- wherein at least one substrate of the capacitance module includes a via that electrically connects a first portion of the inductance coil with a second portion of the inductance coil.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.