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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2023
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Darran Michael Handshaw, Sound Beach, NY (US);
Yuly Mitelman, Stony Brook, NY (US);
Mark Drzymala, Saint James, NY (US);
Edward Barkan, Miller Place, NY (US);
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Abstract
Devices for improving user-interface (UI) controls in an imaging device are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, such imaging devices include a housing having an internal cavity and a window where a flange portion extending around some portion of the window includes touch-enabled UI controls positioned on an exterior surface. On a correspondingly opposite (interior) surface of the flange portion there exists a printed circuit board (PCB) with touch-sensors that correspond to the UI controls. To increase the efficacy of the touch-controls, a spring element is positioned behind the PCB to bias the PCB towards the rear surface of the interior surface of the flange portion and reduce and/or eliminate an air gap between said surface and the sensor(s) and/or the PCB.