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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2010
Applicant:
Tomotake Aono, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tomotake Aono, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
KYOCERA Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/045 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06F 3/041 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04105 (2013.01);
Abstract
An input apparatus has a touch sensorconfigured to detect a touch input, a piezoelectric elementmounted on the touch sensor, and a control unitconfigured to detect a pressure load on a touch faceof the touch sensorbased on an output signal of the piezoelectric elementand, when the pressure load detected satisfies a standard to provide a tactile sensation, to drive the piezoelectric elementsuch that the tactile sensation is provided to an object pressing the touch face