Flexible Panel Touch Apparatus with Raised Operating Portions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional input methods for electronic apparatuses, such as external keyboards and touch panels, face challenges in providing accurate and convenient input experiences due to the lack of tactile feedback and spatial awareness, leading to increased errors and limitations in miniaturization and portability.
Innovation Solution
An electronic apparatus featuring a flexible panel with a touch apparatus that includes raised units driven by a mechanical structure to form raised operating portions on the surface, allowing for tactile input similar to a traditional keyboard while enabling miniaturization and portability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If an external keyboard is used for input, then input accuracy is improved, but device portability and miniaturization are worsened due to separate components and connection requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the keyboard functionality with the display panel by integrating a touch-sensitive layer over the display surface. This merging eliminates the need for separate external keyboards while maintaining input accuracy through the integrated touch interface that detects finger positions and gestures directly on the display area.
Solution Approach 2:
The display panel serves multiple functions: it displays visual information and simultaneously functions as an input device through its touch-sensitive capabilities. This multi-functionality allows the same surface to provide both output (display) and input (touch detection) capabilities, improving portability while maintaining input accuracy.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a touch panel is integrated with the display panel, then device portability is improved, but input accuracy deteriorates due to lack of tactile feedback
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates haptic feedback mechanisms that provide tactile responses to user touch inputs. This feedback loop allows users to perceive their input actions through tactile sensations, thereby maintaining input accuracy despite the integrated touch panel design that lacks traditional mechanical keyboard feedback.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes changes in electrical parameters (such as capacitance or resistance) at different locations on the touch-sensitive display panel to detect and precisely locate touch inputs. By monitoring these parameter changes, the system achieves high input accuracy through electronic detection methods rather than mechanical switches.
3Ease of operation
If traditional mechanical keyboard structures are used, then tactile feedback is improved, but device complexity and size increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical keyboard structures with an electronic touch-sensitive system that detects finger inputs through electrical field changes. This substitution eliminates complex mechanical components such as switches, springs, and moving parts, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining tactile feedback through haptic actuators.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs thin-film touch-sensitive layers deposited over the display panel that provide tactile feedback capabilities without adding significant thickness or structural complexity. These flexible thin films enable touch detection and haptic responses while maintaining a sleek, integrated design.
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus may include a flexible panel comprising an operating side surface and a non-operating side surface. The operating side surface may include a touch operating area. The touch apparatus may include a plurality of raised units. The touch apparatus may be configured to form a plurality of raised operating portions corresponding to the plurality of raised units on a surface of the touch operating area.