Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Pressing force sensor
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Application No.: US14596381Application Date: 2015-01-14
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Publication No.: US09739671B2Publication Date: 2017-08-22
- Inventor: Keisuke Araki , Hideki Kawamura , Jun Endo
- Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Nagaokakyo-Shi, Kyoto-Fu
- Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagaokakyo-Shi, Kyoto-Fu
- Agency: Arent Fox LLP
- Priority: JP2012-165735 20120726
- Main IPC: G01L1/04
- IPC: G01L1/04 ; G01L1/16 ; G01L1/22 ; G01L5/00 ; G01L1/20

Abstract:
A pressing force sensor that includes a sensor element configured with a piezoelectric film, a lead terminal for connection to an external circuit, a wiring conductor which connects pressing force detection electrodes and the lead terminal, and a flexible printed circuit board which withstands solder reflow temperatures. The flexible printed circuit board has the pressing force detection electrodes formed on a first principal surface thereof, and is folded via a folding line while the first principal surface faces inward. The sensor element is deflected by a pressing force applied to a second principal surface which faces outward and is in a first area of the flexible printed circuit board which is on one side with respect to the folding line, and a signal corresponding to the pressing force is thus taken out from the pressing force detection electrodes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150192482A1 Pressing Force Sensor Public/Granted day:2015-07-09
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