Transparent Game Input Panel with Integrated Support and Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional input devices for game machines face challenges in stabilizing the operation member while maintaining sensitivity in push-down operations, often resulting in reduced detection sensitivity due to misaligned supported and detected positions, and complex wiring can further affect the sensitivity.
Innovation Solution
The input device features a partitioned member with void parts and operation members having extended parts that fit into recessed parts, supported by a plastic elastic body with embedded electrodes, ensuring stable support and coincident detection points for improved sensitivity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If the supported position of the operation member is displaced from the electrode for detecting the push-down operation, then the operation member can be supported stably, but the sensibility of detecting the push-down operation is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the supporting function and detecting function into a single integrated component. The plastic elastic body serves both as the supporting means for the operation member and as the detecting means through embedded electrodes. This eliminates the displacement between supported position and detected position, resolving the technical contradiction by making both functions coincide at the same location.
Solution Approach 2:
The plastic elastic body performs multiple functions simultaneously: it provides mechanical support for the operation member, detects push-down operations through embedded electrodes, and maintains operational sensitivity. This multi-functional design allows the same component to address both stability and detection sensitivity requirements.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the wiring condition is complicated, then the operation member can be supported, but the sensibility of detection is lessened due to affection on the push-down operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the wiring and supporting structures into an integrated plastic elastic body with embedded electrodes. This eliminates separate complicated wiring conditions that could affect push-down operation sensitivity, while maintaining support stability through the unified structure.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration enhances the stability and sensitivity of push-down operation detection, maintaining high sensitivity even when the operation member is pushed down obliquely, while also improving the aesthetic appeal and protecting the display surface.
Implementation Method 1
a plastic elastic body with electrodes, in which electrodes functioning as the detecting means are embedded in an elastic body functioning as the supporting means
Data Source
AI summary
A push button panel 16, which has a transparent panel main body 16a for allowing a screen image on a display surface 10a to be visually seen, is disposed for each void part 15b between opaque frames 15a of a lattice panel 15 disposed on the display surface 10a of a monitor 10. Extended parts 16c are disposed at the four corners of an outer circumference of the push button panel 16, such that they are extending outwardly in the diagonal directions, and these extended parts 16c are fitted to recessed parts 15c provided at the four corners of an void part 15b of the lattice panel 15 . A rubber contact 17, in which electrodes functioning as detecting means are embedded in an elastic body functioning as supporting means, is disposed at a lower surface side of each extended part 16c.