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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
May. 11, 2011
Tomotake Aono, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomotake Aono, Kanagawa, JP;
KYOCERA Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A tactile sensation providing apparatus includes a touch sensorconfigured to receive an input, a load detection unitconfigured to detect a pressure load on a touch faceof the touch sensora tactile sensation providing unitconfigured to vibrate the touch facea memory unitconfigured to store drive signal information for the tactile sensation providing unitand a control unitconfigured, when the pressure load detected by the load detection unitsatisfies a standard for providing a tactile sensation, to retrieve the drive signal information from the memory unitand to control drive of the tactile sensation providing unitbased on the drive signal information such that a button depression sensation is provided one time to a pressing object pressing the touch face