Nec Corporation

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Mitsutaka Shiraishi

Jun Watanabe

Satoshi Sugawara

Kazuhiko Yamaoka

Mitsuaki Kanada

Jin Sakai

Daisuke Suzuki

Masakatsu Takizawa

Tatsuya Uchikawa

Takao Ito

Ryuji Matsuo

Hiroyuki Kiuchi

Provided is an inputting device that is disposed in an opening of a cabinet surface. The device includes an elastic sheet having an outside surface disposed on an inside surface of the cabinet including the opening and across the opening. A sliding key is fixed on the outside surface of the elastic sheet with at least a portion in the opening of said cabinet surface. The device also includes sensors to detect movement, in a horizontal direction that is substantially parallel to said cabinet surface, of the sliding key. The device also includes guides being possible to be recognized optically that are disposed on designated positions on the elastic sheet, and the sensors detect the moved direction and the amount of the horizontal movement of the sliding key by reading the movements of said guides optically.

Inputting device and mobile terminal

In recent years, a design where a microphone is not located in a position appropriately facing the oral cavity of an operator has been widely adopted from a viewpoint of convenience of miniaturization and mounting of a mobile telephone. When telephonic communication is made with such a mobile telephone, if a voice of the other party for telephonic communication is hard to hear, the operator necessarily tightly presses his/her face against a front surface of a chassis. Thus, the sensitivity and sound collecting property of the microphone are reduced. In the present invention, when a sound hole as a voice transmission path is formed in the vicinity of a manipulation section, slits are formed in the peripheries of the manipulation section and the sound hole. Hence, even in a situation in which an operator necessarily tightly presses his/her face against a front surface of a chassis, the voice transmission path is ensured to a certain extent, and thus the sound collecting property is ensured to some degree or more.

Mobile telephone

Portable wireless telephone

Growing community of inventors

Saitama, Japan

Mitsutaka Shiraishi