公开(公告)号：US06480183B1

公开(公告)日：2002-11-12

申请号：US09360479

申请日：1999-07-23

申请人： Gilles Van Ruymbeke ,  Bernard Kasser ,  Jean-Philippe Fricker ,  Marc Ledin

发明人： Gilles Van Ruymbeke ,  Bernard Kasser ,  Jean-Philippe Fricker ,  Marc Ledin

IPC分类号： G09G508

CPC分类号： G05G9/047 ,  G05G2009/04755 ,  G05G2009/04777

摘要： A joystick that detects position and movement using a capacitive sensor. The joystick has a stick mounted to allow movement within a housing, a conductive element at a first end of the stick, and a capacitive sensor. The capacitive sensor may be a capacitive touchpad. It determines position by measuring the change in capacitance on a set of conductive traces. The capacitive sensor may be shaped as a plane or may be hemispherically-shaped. The conductive element may also be triangular or other distinctive shape to allow detection of movement. An advantage of such a joystick is that absolute positioning may be determined, along with relative positioning.

摘要翻译： 使用电容式传感器检测位置和移动的操纵杆。 操纵杆具有安装以允许在壳体内移动的杆，杆的第一端处的导电元件和电容传感器。 电容传感器可以是电容式触摸板。 它通过测量一组导电迹线上的电容变化来确定位置。 电容传感器可以被成形为平面或者可以是半球形的。 导电元件也可以是三角形或其他独特形状以允许检测移动。 这种操纵杆的优点在于可以确定绝对定位以及相对定位。

公开(公告)号：US6002594A

公开(公告)日：1999-12-14

申请号：US999908

申请日：1997-12-19

申请人： Marc Ledin ,  Bernard Kasser ,  Stephen J. Bisset

发明人： Marc Ledin ,  Bernard Kasser ,  Stephen J. Bisset

IPC分类号： G06F3/0354 ,  G06F3/044 ,  H05K1/09 ,  H05K1/14 ,  H05K3/32 ,  H05K3/36 ,  H05K1/11 ,  H05K9/09

CPC分类号： G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/03547 ,  H05K1/147 ,  H01H2207/008 ,  H01H2239/01 ,  H05K1/095 ,  H05K2201/10053 ,  H05K3/323 ,  H05K3/361

摘要： An improved flexible substrate for a touchpad, with the flexible substrate having conductive ink for forming a sensor array. A printed circuit board is also used, but only for the components which need to connect to the array, and not the array, thus giving a smaller printed circuit board. The printed circuit board can have the components compactly mounted on it taking advantage of the close spacing available in PC board technology. The PC board itself has wider spacing on its contacts at its outer edges, allowing it to be attached by conductive glue to the flexible substrate.

摘要翻译： 用于触摸板的改进的柔性基板，柔性基板具有用于形成传感器阵列的导电油墨。 还使用印刷电路板，但仅用于需要连接到阵列而不是阵列的组件，从而给出较小的印刷电路板。 印刷电路板可以将组件紧凑地安装在其上，利用PC板技术中可用的紧密间距。 PC板本身在其外边缘上的触点上具有较宽的间距，允许其通过导电胶粘附到柔性基板上。