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Dennis J Mathias

Summer L Schneider

Ralf Groene

Hua Wang

Timothy Carlyle Shaw

David R Perek

Kabir Siddiqui

Karsten Aagaard

Paul Henry Dietz

Thomas Charles Oliver

Eric Joseph Wahl

Panos Costa Panay

Christopher Harry Stoumbos

James Alec Ishihara

Todd David Pleake

Nathan C Sherman

Sharon Drasnin

Matthew David Mickelson

David Michael Lane

Joel Lawrence Pelley

Rob Huala

Christopher Andrew Whitman

David Carter Vandervoort

Robert D Young

Gene Robert Obie

James Charles Marshall

Moshe Randall Lutz

Jim Tom Belesiu

Darryl I Jensen

Camilo Leon

Harold F Mantooth

Hiroo Umeno

Chun Beng Goh

Michael A Schwager

James H Wise

Andrew N Cady

Stephan Alexander Cummings

Mark J Seilstad

Van Winston Oler

Hakon Strande

Matthew G Pedersen

Jose R Sousa

David Neff

Richard Peter Spooner

Matthew G Pederson

Jamesh Wise

Darryl Jensen

Davie M Lane

Iii Edward C Giaimo

Darryl L Jensen

Iii David Otto Whitt

Scott K Gibson

Shane Aaron Sykes

Jay Scott Kassels

Anthony Christian Reed

Bernard Maurice Schultz

David Otto Iii Whitt

Edward C Giaimo Iii

Rajesh Manohar Dighde

Robyn Rebecca Reed Mclaughlin

Edward C Iii Giaimo

Scott Mitchel Mail

Pressure sensitive key techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a device includes at least one pressure sensitive key having a flexible contact layer spaced apart from a sensor substrate by a spacer layer, the flexible contact layer configured to flex responsive to pressure to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input, for a computing device, associated with the pressure sensitive key. At least one of the flexible contact layer or the sensor substrate are configured to at least partially normalize an output resulting from pressure applied at a first location of the flexible contact layer with an output resulting from pressure applied at a second location of the flexible contact layer that has lesser flexibility than the first location.

Pressure sensitive keys

Pressure sensitive key normalization

Force concentrator techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a pressure sensitive key includes a sensor substrate having a plurality of conductors, a flexible contact layer spaced apart from the sensor substrate and configured to flex to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input; and a force concentrator layer disposed proximal to the flexible contact layer on a side opposite the sensor substrate. The force concentrator layer has a pad disposed thereon that is configured to cause pressure applied to the force concentrator layer to be channeled through the pad to cause the flexible contact layer to contact the sensor substrate to initiate the input.

Force concentrator

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Dennis J Mathias