Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Akihisa Okuni

Kazumi Nakaju

Issei Kurosawa

A touch pad, on which a pointing operation is performed by a hand, includes: a sensor board configured to recognize a touch position by a hand; an outer frame configured to be fixed to the sensor board; a cross-shaped inner frame configured to be disposed on an inner side of the outer frame, in which one ends of four arm portions are connected and the other ends extend toward four locations of the outer frame; a switch configured to be provided between the one end of the arm portion and the sensor board; and a shaft support portion configured to support each of the four arm portions to be capable of being inclined in a pitch direction at an intermediate portion. The other end is displaced in a lifting/lowering direction together with the sensor board, and is supported to be relatively displaceable in the other two directions.

Touch pad

A touch pad, on which a pointing operation is performed by a hand, includes: a sensor board configured to recognize a touch position by a hand; an outer frame configured to be fixed to the sensor board; an arm portion configured to be disposed on an inner side of the outer frame; a switch configured to be provided between one end of the arm portion and the sensor board; and a shaft support portion configured to support the arm portion to be capable of being inclined in a pitch direction at an intermediate portion. The other end of the arm portion is displaced in a lifting/lowering direction together with the sensor board, and is supported to be relatively displaceable in the other two directions.

Touch pad with slidable arm portion

A touch pad, on which a pointing operation is performed by a hand, includes: a sensor board configured to recognize a touch position by a hand; an outer frame configured to be fixed to the sensor board; an arm portion configured to be disposed on an inner side of the outer frame; a switch configured to be provided between one end of the arm portion and the sensor board; a shaft support portion configured to support the arm portion to be capable of being inclined in a pitch direction at an intermediate portion; and an elastic body configured to bias the sensor board upward with respect to a base. The other end of the arm portion is supported to be displaced in a lifting/lowering direction together with the sensor board.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Akihisa Okuni