Flexible data input device
AssigneeElectrotextiles Company Limited
InventorsDavid Lee Sandbach, Christopher Chapman, Stuart Mark Walkington
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a data input device suitable for inputting data to electronic processing means. The data input device is configured to produce an output in response to a mechanical interaction and may be reconfigured into two operational configurations. In a first flexible configuration the device may be bent or flexed about a first axis, and in a second rigid configuration the data input device is substantially rigid such that bending or flexing of the device about the first axis is inhibited.
Claims23
A data input device suitable for inputting data to electronic processing means and configured to produce an output in response to a mechanical interaction, wherein
- said data input device comprises a rigidising support layer, such that said data input device is configurable between a rigid configuration in which said support layer provides a curvature that inhibits bending or flexing of said device about a first axis and
- a flexible configuration in which said curvature is removed such that said device may be bent or flexed about said first axis.
A data input device according to any preceding claim, wherein said device is reconfigured from said flexible configuration to said rigid configuration by a reconfiguration means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.