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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ryoichi Maeda, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/08 ;
Abstract
In a keyboard device of the present invention, a leader portion formed integrally with a film substrate is provided with switch terminal portions and pointing device terminal portions, and the film substrates are provided with lead-out conductors to be led out to the pointing device terminal portions. A flexible substrate is provided with connection conductors. The connection conductors are connected to lead-out conductors adjacent to the pointing device.