EP0616298A1 - Position input device and input apparatus using the same - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a position input device such as pointing device used in personal computer, word processor, other information processing apparatus, and home-use game appliances, and an input apparatus using the same.
- FIG. 17 A prior art is described by reference to a pointing device using a strain gauge shown in Fig. 17 (a), (b), and (c).
- strain gauges 24a, 24b in the X-axis direction, and 25a, 25b in the Y-axis direction are adhered.
- the four strain gauges 24a, 24b, 25a, and 25b are connected as shown in Fig. 17 (c), that is, the strain gauges 24a, 24b in the X-axis direction being in series, and the strain gauges 25a, 25b in the Y-axis direction being in series.
- the operation of the pointing device is described below.
- the force applied in the stick 23 distorts the stick 23 in the X-axis and Y-axis, and the strain gauges 24a, 24b, 25a, and 25b measure voltages Vx, Vy of which resistance is changed by the distortion of the stick 23, and therefore the direction of the applied force is detected by the synthesis of the changing amounts of the X-axis and Y-axis, and the magnitude of the applied force, by the absolute value of the changing amounts of the X-axis and Y-axis.
- the invention provides a position input device comprising a lower film disposing independent electrodes in four directions individually, an upper film disposing common electrode confronting the independent electrodes, pressure sensitive elements disposed between the independent electrodes and common electrodes respectively, a pressing plate possessing protrusions at the positions for pressing the pressure sensitive elements corresponding to the independent electrodes and common electrode, and an operation lever for manipulating the pressing plate.
- a printed wiring board is used instead of the lower film.
- the pressing plate and the operation lever are constituted in one body.
- a spacer is placed between the pressure sensitive elements so that the pressure sensitive elements may not be pressed except in operation time.
- pressure sensitive rubber is used as pressure sensitive elements.
- pressure sensitive rubber is used as pressure sensitive elements, and the individual pressure sensitive elements are constituted into one body with the connecting parts.
- the invention also provides a position input device comprising an A/D converter connected to the independent electrodes, and an operating unit connecting a memory unit in which the procedure for processing the digital data obtained by the A/D converter is written, wherein the memory unit possesses a table for converting the digital data obtained by the A/D converter into an operating force of the operation lever or a moving speed corresponding to the operating force of the operation level.
- the invention also relates to an input apparatus using a position input device possessing plural input keys, and an operation lever set at a same height of the input keys or slightly higher, adjacently to the input keys.
- Fig. 1 is a drawing showing an embodiment of a position input device of the invention.
- Fig. 2 is a drawing showing pressing plate which is an essential part of the position input device of the invention.
- Fig. 3 (a) is a plan view of the position input device of the invention, and Fig. 3 (b) is its cross sectional view.
- Fig. 4 is a diagram showing an equivalent circuit of the position input device of the invention.
- Fig. 5 is a diagram showing the relation between the pressure and resistance of the pressure sensitive rubber of the position input device of the invention.
- Fig. 6 is a diagram explaining the table for converting the digital data obtained by the A/D converter of the position input device of the invention into the manipulated force of the operation lever.
- Fig. 7 is a diagram showing the changes of resistance in the thickness direction of the pressure sensitive rubber of the position input device of the invention by the force in the thickness direction, and changes of the voltage for A/D conversion.
- Fig. 8 is a diagram explaining the behavior of changes of the resistance in the thickness direction of the pressure sensitive rubber of the position input device of the invention by the force in the thickness direction.
- Fig. 9 (a) is a diagram explaining the operation of the position input device of the invention, and Fig. 9 (b) is its side view.
- Fig. 10 (a) is a plan view explaining the operation of the position input device in other embodiment of the invention, and Fig. 10 (b) is its side view.
- Fig. 11 is a diagram of a position input device in a different embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 12 is a diagram showing the pressure sensitive rubber which is an essential part of the position input device in a further different embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 13 (a) is a diagram showing an input apparatus of the invention possessing plural keys using a position input device herein, and Fig. 13 (b) is its side view.
- Fig. 14 is a diagram showing the relation between a film disposing common electrode and a film disposing independent electrodes which are essential parts of a position input device in another embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 15 is a diagram showing the relation between a film disposing common electrode and a film disposing independent electrodes which are essential parts of a position input device in another different embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 16 is a diagram showing the relation between a film disposing common electrode and a film disposing independent electrodes which are essential parts of a position input device in a further different embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 17 (a) is a diagram showing strain gauges which are essential parts of the pointing device of a conventional position input device
- Fig. 17 (b) is its side view
- Fig. 17 (c) is its equivalent circuit.
- a lower film 9 having a hole 9a provided in the center As shown in Fig. 1, on the upper surface of a lower film 9 having a hole 9a provided in the center, four independent electrodes 1, 2, 3 and 4 disposed in four directions are formed, and from the four independent electrodes 1, 2, 3 and 4, individual lead wires 5, 6, 7 and 8 are drawn out respectively and wired on the lower film 9. Similarly, on an upper film 12 having a hole 12a provided in the center, common electrode 10 and common lead wire 11 corresponding to all of the four independent electrodes 1, 2, 3 and 4 formed on the lower film 9 are wired.
- a pressing plate 14 is disposed, and in the lower part thereof, as shown in Fig. 2, four spherical protrusions 14a for pressing the pressure sensitive elements 13a, 13b, 13c and 13d, respectively, are disposed, together with two stopping parts 14b provided on the circumference of the opposite side of the plane having a shaft 14c formed in the center, and a protrusions 14a.
- an operation lever 15 and an upper case 16 are disposed on the upper surface of the pressing plate 14, and the assembly constitution is as shown in Fig.
- the shaft 14c provided in the center of the lower side of the pressing plate 14 is combined with the hole 12a in the central part of the upper film 12 for composing the contact parts and the hole 9a in the central part of the lower film 9, is further assembled with the hole 17a in the central part of the lower case 17 to formed into one body, and screws 18 is driven into screw holes 17b provided at four corners of the lower case 17 to fasten the upper case 16 by screwing.
- the pressure sensitive elements 13a, 13b, 13c, and 13d can be printed on the four independent electrodes 1, 2, 3 and 4 by using pressure sensitive conductive ink, or on the common electrodes 10.
- the invention is capable of detecting the changes of the resistance of the individual pressure sensitive elements 13a, 13b, 13c and 13d, by measuring the resistance between the common lead wire 11 and the individual lead wire 5, 6, 7 or 8.
- Fig. 5 is a characteristic diagram showing the changes of the resistance of the individual pressure sensitive element 13a, 13b, 13c or 13d in the thickness direction, in which the pressing force can be known by measuring the resistance of the pressure sensitive element 13a, 13b, 13c or 13d, for example, the pressing force is 200 g if the resistance of the pressure sensitive element 13a, 13b, 13c or 13d in the thickness direction is 10 k ⁇ , or the pressing force is 400 g if the resistance is 5.9 k ⁇ . That is, by measuring the resistance, the pressing force can be recognized.
- the position input device of the invention incorporates an A/D converter, and also possesses a one-chip microcomputer in which the procedure for processing the digital data obtained by the A/D converter is written into a memory unit (ROM), and this microcomputer possesses, as shown in Fig. 6, a table for converting the digital data obtained by the A/D converter into the operating force received by the operation lever or the moving speed corresponding to this operating force.
- ROM memory unit
- Fig. 7 shows a characteristic diagram showing the changes of the resistance of the pressure sensitive element 13a, 13b, 13c or 13d in the thickness direction by the force in the thickness direction, and changes of the voltage for A/D conversion, and the A/D converted value as shown in Fig. 7 is obtained by A/D conversion.
- the pressing force is known.
- Fig. 11 shows a position input device having a spacer 21 placed between a lower film 9 and an upper film 12, together with pressure sensitive elements 13a, 13b, 13c and 13d, in which a certain clearance is set until the pressure sensitive elements 13a, 13b, 13c and 13d are actually pushed, so that errors due to slight contact with the operation lever 15 may be avoided.
- the pressure sensitive elements 13a, 13b, 13c and 13d are changed in resistance in the thickness direction by the pressing force, and by making use of the fact that the resistance in the plane direction is extremely large so that the change in its resistance can be ignored, the pressure sensitive element is composed of one piece by providing a connecting part 22, without separating into individual pressure sensitive elements, so that the number of steps in assembling is reduced to 1/4.
- the lower film 9 may be replaced by a printed wiring board which is a rigid body.
- Fig. 13 (a) and (b) relate to an input apparatus of the invention, in which the position input device of the invention is built in the input apparatus possessing plural input keys such as a full keyboard of a personal computer.
- the height of the operation lever 15 is same as the height of the adjacent peripheral input keys 15a, or set slightly higher, and it can be very easily manipulated by the finger of the operation.
- Figs. 14, 15 and 16 show pointing devices of other embodiments of the position input device of the invention, and specifically in Fig. 14, a protrusion 14d is provided on the circumference of the pressing plate 14, and by assembling the protrusion 14d by matching with a guide groove 19 of the main body case (not shown), the protrusion 14d provided on the pressing plate 14 and the pressure sensitive elements 13a, 13b, 13c and 13d can be positioned easily.
- Figs. 15 and 16 has the same purpose as the embodiment shown in Fig. 14, and Fig. 15 shows an example of providing markings 20 on both main body case (not shown) and pressing plate 14, and Fig. 16 shows an example in which the outer shape of the pressing plate 14 is square, and the inside corners of the main body case (not shown) are assembled so that pressure sensitive elements 13a, 13b, 13c and 13d and the pressing plate 14 may be watched, as being guided by tie pressing plate 14.
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- The present invention relates to a position input device such as pointing device used in personal computer, word processor, other information processing apparatus, and home-use game appliances, and an input apparatus using the same.
- A prior art is described by reference to a pointing device using a strain gauge shown in Fig. 17 (a), (b), and (c). As shown in the diagram, on four sides of a bar-
shaped stick 23, strain gauges 24a, 24b in the X-axis direction, and 25a, 25b in the Y-axis direction are adhered. - The four strain gauges 24a, 24b, 25a, and 25b are connected as shown in Fig. 17 (c), that is, the strain gauges 24a, 24b in the X-axis direction being in series, and the strain gauges 25a, 25b in the Y-axis direction being in series.
- The operation of the pointing device is described below. The force applied in the
stick 23 distorts thestick 23 in the X-axis and Y-axis, and the strain gauges 24a, 24b, 25a, and 25b measure voltages Vx, Vy of which resistance is changed by the distortion of thestick 23, and therefore the direction of the applied force is detected by the synthesis of the changing amounts of the X-axis and Y-axis, and the magnitude of the applied force, by the absolute value of the changing amounts of the X-axis and Y-axis. - However, in such conventional constitution, since strain gauges are used, it is expensive. Other problems were the poor operation feeling such as difficulty in recognizing the feeling in actual manipulation, and the difficulty in making compact.
- It is hence a primary object of the invention to present a compact position input device capable of detecting the direction of force and magnitude of force, being inexpensive and excellent in controllability, and an input apparatus using the same.
- The invention provides a position input device comprising a lower film disposing independent electrodes in four directions individually, an upper film disposing common electrode confronting the independent electrodes, pressure sensitive elements disposed between the independent electrodes and common electrodes respectively, a pressing plate possessing protrusions at the positions for pressing the pressure sensitive elements corresponding to the independent electrodes and common electrode, and an operation lever for manipulating the pressing plate.
- In the position input device of the invention, a printed wiring board is used instead of the lower film.
- In the position input device of the invention, the pressing plate and the operation lever are constituted in one body.
- In the position input device of the invention, a spacer is placed between the pressure sensitive elements so that the pressure sensitive elements may not be pressed except in operation time.
- In the position input device of the invention, pressure sensitive rubber is used as pressure sensitive elements.
- In the position input device of the invention, pressure sensitive rubber is used as pressure sensitive elements, and the individual pressure sensitive elements are constituted into one body with the connecting parts.
- The invention also provides a position input device comprising an A/D converter connected to the independent electrodes, and an operating unit connecting a memory unit in which the procedure for processing the digital data obtained by the A/D converter is written, wherein the memory unit possesses a table for converting the digital data obtained by the A/D converter into an operating force of the operation lever or a moving speed corresponding to the operating force of the operation level.
- The invention also relates to an input apparatus using a position input device possessing plural input keys, and an operation lever set at a same height of the input keys or slightly higher, adjacently to the input keys.
- An outline of the operation of the invention is described below.
- When the force applied to the operation lever in the constitution described above is applied to the pressure sensitive elements in four directions through protrusions of the pressing plate, the changing resistances produced in the pressure sensitive elements are read from lead wires of the in dependent electrodes and the common electrode, and the pressure sensitive elements are sandwiched between the upper and lower films, and therefore the structure is thin, it is easy to manufacture, and it is possible to produce at low cost.
- Fig. 1 is a drawing showing an embodiment of a position input device of the invention.
- Fig. 2 is a drawing showing pressing plate which is an essential part of the position input device of the invention.
- Fig. 3 (a) is a plan view of the position input device of the invention, and Fig. 3 (b) is its cross sectional view.
- Fig. 4 is a diagram showing an equivalent circuit of the position input device of the invention.
- Fig. 5 is a diagram showing the relation between the pressure and resistance of the pressure sensitive rubber of the position input device of the invention.
- Fig. 6 is a diagram explaining the table for converting the digital data obtained by the A/D converter of the position input device of the invention into the manipulated force of the operation lever.
- Fig. 7 is a diagram showing the changes of resistance in the thickness direction of the pressure sensitive rubber of the position input device of the invention by the force in the thickness direction, and changes of the voltage for A/D conversion.
- Fig. 8 is a diagram explaining the behavior of changes of the resistance in the thickness direction of the pressure sensitive rubber of the position input device of the invention by the force in the thickness direction.
- Fig. 9 (a) is a diagram explaining the operation of the position input device of the invention, and Fig. 9 (b) is its side view.
- Fig. 10 (a) is a plan view explaining the operation of the position input device in other embodiment of the invention, and Fig. 10 (b) is its side view.
- Fig. 11 is a diagram of a position input device in a different embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 12 is a diagram showing the pressure sensitive rubber which is an essential part of the position input device in a further different embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 13 (a) is a diagram showing an input apparatus of the invention possessing plural keys using a position input device herein, and Fig. 13 (b) is its side view.
- Fig. 14 is a diagram showing the relation between a film disposing common electrode and a film disposing independent electrodes which are essential parts of a position input device in another embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 15 is a diagram showing the relation between a film disposing common electrode and a film disposing independent electrodes which are essential parts of a position input device in another different embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 16 is a diagram showing the relation between a film disposing common electrode and a film disposing independent electrodes which are essential parts of a position input device in a further different embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 17 (a) is a diagram showing strain gauges which are essential parts of the pointing device of a conventional position input device, Fig. 17 (b) is its side view, and Fig. 17 (c) is its equivalent circuit.
- As shown in Fig. 1, on the upper surface of a
lower film 9 having a hole 9a provided in the center, fourindependent electrodes independent electrodes individual lead wires lower film 9. Similarly, on anupper film 12 having ahole 12a provided in the center,common electrode 10 and common lead wire 11 corresponding to all of the fourindependent electrodes lower film 9 are wired. - Between the
lower film 9 andupper film 12, four pressuresensitive elements independent electrodes lower film 9, and also in contact with thecommon electrode 10 provided beneath theupper film 12. - In the upper part of the
upper film 12, apressing plate 14 is disposed, and in the lower part thereof, as shown in Fig. 2, four spherical protrusions 14a for pressing the pressuresensitive elements parts 14b provided on the circumference of the opposite side of the plane having ashaft 14c formed in the center, and a protrusions 14a. As shown n Fig. 1, anoperation lever 15 and anupper case 16 are disposed on the upper surface of thepressing plate 14, and the assembly constitution is as shown in Fig. 3 (a), (b), in which the shaft portion of theoperation lever 15 is inserted into ashaft hole 16a of theupper case 16 from the opening side of theupper case 16, and thepressing plate 14 is combined with theupper case 16 so as to pinch theoperation lever 15, and thestopping parts 14b of thepressing pat 14 are inserted and stopped into pressingplate stopping holes 16b provided in theupper case 16. - The
shaft 14c provided in the center of the lower side of thepressing plate 14 is combined with thehole 12a in the central part of theupper film 12 for composing the contact parts and the hole 9a in the central part of thelower film 9, is further assembled with the hole 17a in the central part of thelower case 17 to formed into one body, andscrews 18 is driven into screw holes 17b provided at four corners of thelower case 17 to fasten theupper case 16 by screwing. - In this constitution of the invention, meanwhile, the pressure
sensitive elements independent electrodes common electrodes 10. In this constitution, the invention is capable of detecting the changes of the resistance of the individual pressuresensitive elements individual lead wire - Fig. 5 is a characteristic diagram showing the changes of the resistance of the individual pressure
sensitive element sensitive element sensitive element - Incidentally, as shown in Fig. 4, the position input device of the invention incorporates an A/D converter, and also possesses a one-chip microcomputer in which the procedure for processing the digital data obtained by the A/D converter is written into a memory unit (ROM), and this microcomputer possesses, as shown in Fig. 6, a table for converting the digital data obtained by the A/D converter into the operating force received by the operation lever or the moving speed corresponding to this operating force.
- Fig. 7 shows a characteristic diagram showing the changes of the resistance of the pressure
sensitive element - The operation of the position input device of the embodiment having such constitution is explained below by reference to Fig. 8.
- When the
operation lever 15 is pressed with a force F, forces Fa, Fb, Fc and Fd corresponding to the pushing positions are applied to the spherical protrusions 14a provided at four positions of thepressing plate 14. In particular, a downward force is applied to the pressuresensitive elements 13a, 13b, so that the resistance value decreases according to the characteristic diagram in Fig. 5. - That is, by measuring the resistance of the four pressure
sensitive elements - Besides, as shown in Fig. 9 (a), (b), since the operation lever 15 and pressing
plate 14 are composed of different parts, when theoperation lever 15 is manipulated by applying a force F, theoperation lever 15 is inclined by ϑ, but the operation lever 15 slides on thepressing plate 14 to press, for example, the pressuresensitive elements pressing plate 14, so that position deviation does not occur, and thereby a proper operating force can be applied. - As shown in Fig. 10 (a), (b) in the case of a small shape of the position input device, when a proper operating force is applied to the pressure
sensitive element operation lever 15 is inclined by the force F, the number of parts can be curtailed by combining theoperation lever 15 and pressingplate 14 into one body. - Fig. 11 shows a position input device having a
spacer 21 placed between alower film 9 and anupper film 12, together with pressuresensitive elements sensitive elements operation lever 15 may be avoided. - In fig. 12, the pressure
sensitive elements part 22, without separating into individual pressure sensitive elements, so that the number of steps in assembling is reduced to 1/4. - Incidentally, the
lower film 9 may be replaced by a printed wiring board which is a rigid body. - Fig. 13 (a) and (b) relate to an input apparatus of the invention, in which the position input device of the invention is built in the input apparatus possessing plural input keys such as a full keyboard of a personal computer. The height of the
operation lever 15 is same as the height of the adjacentperipheral input keys 15a, or set slightly higher, and it can be very easily manipulated by the finger of the operation. - Figs. 14, 15 and 16 show pointing devices of other embodiments of the position input device of the invention, and specifically in Fig. 14, a protrusion 14d is provided on the circumference of the
pressing plate 14, and by assembling the protrusion 14d by matching with a guide groove 19 of the main body case (not shown), the protrusion 14d provided on thepressing plate 14 and the pressuresensitive elements - The embodiment shown in Figs. 15 and 16 has the same purpose as the embodiment shown in Fig. 14, and Fig. 15 shows an example of providing markings 20 on both main body case (not shown) and pressing
plate 14, and Fig. 16 shows an example in which the outer shape of thepressing plate 14 is square, and the inside corners of the main body case (not shown) are assembled so that pressuresensitive elements pressing plate 14 may be watched, as being guided bytie pressing plate 14.
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- A position input device comprising a lower film disposing independent electrodes in four directions individually, an upper film disposing common electrode confronting the independent electrodes, pressure sensitive elementsd isposed between the independent electrodes and common electrode respectively,a pressing plate possessing protrusions at the positions for pressing the pressure sensitive elements corresponding to the independent electrodes and common electrode, and an operation lever for manipulating the pressing plate.
- A position input device of claim 1, wherein a rigid printed wiring board is used instead of the lower film.
- A position input device of claim 1, wherein the pressing plate and operation lever are formed into one body.
- A position input device of claim 1, wherein a spacer is disposed between the pressure sensitive elements so that the pressure sensitive elements may not be pushed in other time than in operation.
- A position input device of claim 1, wherein pressure sensitive rubber is used as pressure sensitive elements.
- A position input device et claim 1, wherein pressure sensitive rubber is used as pressure sensitive elements, and the individual pressure sensitive elements are formed into one body with the connecting parts.
- A position input device of claim 1, comprising an A/D converter connected to the independent electrodes, and an operating unit connecting a memory unit in which the procedure for processing the digital data obtained by the A/D converter is written, wherein the memory unit possesses a table for converting the digital data obtained by the A/D converter into an operating force of the operation lever or a moving speed corresponding to the operating force of the operation level.
- An input apparatus using a position input device of claim 1, possessing plural input keys, and an operation lever set at a same height of the input keys or slightly higher, adjacently to the input keys.
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