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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2018
Minebea Mitsumi Inc., Nagano, JP;
Satoshi Sato, Kitasaku, JP;
Naoyuki Terada, Iwata, JP;
Kazumasa Adachi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Makoto Furuta, Fukuroi, JP;
Takahiro Shimura, Hamamatsu, JP;
Shigeyuki Adachi, Fukuroi, JP;
MINEBEA MITSUMI INC., Nagano, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a portable apparatus capable of detecting a touch position where a user touches the portable apparatus and a touch strength with which the user touches the portable apparatus. The portable apparatus includes: a rectangular frame on which a display panel unit is to be mounted; four touch detection-dedicated legs respectively extending from vicinities of four corners of the frame; a first strain gage attached to each of the touch detection-dedicated legs; and a calculation unit that finds the touch position and the touch strength based on an output of the first strain gage.