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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2014
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
David Otto Whitt, III, Sammamish, WA (US);
Timothy C. Shaw, Sammamish, WA (US);
Rob Huala, Bellevue, WA (US);
David C. Vandervoort, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthew David Mickelson, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Harry Stoumbos, Sammamish, WA (US);
Joel Lawrence Pelley, Bellevue, WA (US);
Todd David Pleake, Sammamish, WA (US);
Hua Wang, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Input device adhesive techniques are described. A pressure sensitive key includes a sensor substrate having one or more conductors, a spacer layer, and a flexible contact layer. The spacer layer is disposed proximal to the sensor substrate and has at least one opening. The flexible contact layer is spaced apart from the sensor substrate by the spacer layer and configured to flex through the opening in response to an applied pressure to initiate an input. The flexible contact layer is secured to the spacer layer such that at first edge, the flexible contact layer is secured to the spacer layer at an approximate midpoint of the first edge and is not secured to the spacer along another portion of the first edge and at a second edge, the flexible contact layer is not secured to the spacer layer along an approximate midpoint of the second edge.