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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2012
Wei-ming Chen, New Taipei, TW;
Wei-wen Yang, New Taipei, TW;
Wei-Ming Chen, New Taipei, TW;
Wei-Wen Yang, New Taipei, TW;
ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
An input module is mounted on a portable electronic device and has a sensing substrate and a cover lens mounted on a top surface of the sensing substrate, a physical switch mounted on and electrically connected to a bottom surface of the sensing substrate, and a flexible bridging board having two opposite short sides respectively protruding from two short sides of the sensing substrate for the two short sides of the flexible bridging board to be mounted on the electronic device. As the two short sides of the input module are mounted on the electronic device and a lever arm between a pressed point to a fixed point of the input module is shortened, a torque applied to the input module is lowered and the input module is not easily deformed.