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Touch sensitive display

US5835080A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 12, 1992
Grant dateNov 10, 1998
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Expiry dateMay 12, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/04144
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A touch screen display is presented which comprises a display screen, a plate of a rigid transparent material, mounting apparatus for mounting the plate on the display screen, touch sensing transducers cooperating with the mounting apparatus for producing a plurality of electrical signals in response to, and representative of, a force applied to the plate; the force results from tactile stimulus of the plate while the mounting apparatus includes a film composed of a transparent, elastic, adhesive compound, having a similar refractive index to that of the display screen; the adhesive compound being applied to one surface of the plate for bonding that surface to the display screen.

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