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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1995
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A coordinate inputting apparatus which facilitates minimization and a keyboard apparatus which facilitates minimization and is superior in operability are disclosed. A pointing device includes a base including a pedestal in the form of a flat plate and a columnar member in the form of a quadrangle prism provided uprightly on the pedestal, strain gauges fixedly adhered to four outer side faces of the columnar body, a flexible cable connected to each strain gauge, and a cap mounted at the top of the columnar member. The pointing device is secured to a metal plate in the inside of a keyboard inputting apparatus such that the cap projects upwardly farther than the top face of a housing of the keyboard inputting apparatus and is located between different key tops of key switches of the keyboard inputting apparatus.