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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2015
Applicants:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Kouichiro Takashima, Tokyo, JP;
Shun Kayama, Saitama, JP;
Takashi Sawada, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukiko Shimizu, Saitama, JP;
Tsutomu Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignees:
Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G09B 21/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G09B 21/004 (2013.01);
Abstract
A touch-sensitive sheet member contains a body having predetermined hardness and a sheet shape and a sense-of-touch-representing unit that represents a sense of touch. The sense-of-touch-representing unit has a predetermined size and is arranged at positions of the body or at a predetermined position of the body. The touch-sensitive sheet member also contains a medium-supplying unit that supplies medium to the sense-of-touch-representing unit.