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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2010
Andrew Ferencz, Southborough, MA (US);
Bojan Rip, Newton, MA (US);
Santiago Carvajal, West Newton, MA (US);
John Michael Sakalowsky, West Newton, MA (US);
Andrew Ferencz, Southborough, MA (US);
Bojan Rip, Newton, MA (US);
Santiago Carvajal, West Newton, MA (US);
John Michael Sakalowsky, West Newton, MA (US);
Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA (US);
Abstract
A touch sensor employing capacitive sensing technology in which a series of conductive pads enabling the detection of levels of capacitance imparted to each of the conductive pads as a result of the close proximity of a tip of a digit of a user, in which adjacent pairs of the conductive pads form slider controls, in which one of the conductive pads is a corner-type conductive pad at which two adjacent slider controls formed by the corner-type conductive pad and each of two adjacent conductive pads forms a corner in the series of slider controls, and in which the series of slider controls perhaps forms a rectangular ring shape loop of slider controls in which there are four of the corner-type conductive pads at which four different pairs of slider controls meet at right angles.