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US 7,446,456 B2Granted
Piezoelectric composite device, method of manufacturing same, method of controlling same, input-output device, and electronic device
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsShigeaki Maruyama, Junichi Sekine, Ivan Poupyrev
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Abstract
A piezoelectric composite device including: a feeding electrode; a common electrode; a signal detecting electrode; a first piezoelectric element joined between the feeding electrode and the common electrode; and a second piezoelectric element joined between the common electrode and the signal detecting electrode; a predetermined voltage being supplied between the feeding electrode and the common electrode; and a force detection signal based on an external force being extracted from the detecting electrode.
Claims5
An electronic device comprising:
- an input-output device, including:
- input means for detecting a contact position of an operating object and outputting input information;
- and
- tactile sense providing and information determining means for providing a tactile sense to said operating object operating said input means, and detecting a physical pressing force at the contact position of said operating object and determining said input information;
- wherein said tactile sense providing and information determining means of said input-output device includes a piezoelectric composite device;
- and
- wherein said piezoelectric composite device includes:
- a first laminate and a second laminate each having a lead electrode and formed by laminating one or more piezoelectric elements, and
- a third laminate having another lead electrode and having one or more piezoelectric elements laminated between said first laminate and said second laminate,
- wherein when power is supplied to the lead electrodes of said first laminate and said second laminate, the piezoelectric elements of said first laminate and said second laminate vibrate, and
- wherein when the physical pressing force is applied to said third laminate from the operating object applying the physical pressing force from external to the first laminate or the second laminate, the one or more piezoelectric elements of said third laminate output a physical pressing force detection signal from the lead electrode of said third laminate.
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