US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on June 23 for "Input apparatus having a touch panel held by a holder movable relative to a circuit board" (Japanese Inventors)

Posted On: 2026-07-15

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,890, issued on June 23, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Japan).

"Input apparatus having a touch panel held by a holder movable relative to a circuit board" was invented by Yasumasa Funabashi (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Toshio Imai (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Keisuke Sato (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Yu Igarashi (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Kiyotaka Aizawa (Miyagi-ken, Japan) and Yukihiro Yokoyama (Miyagi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input apparatus includes a casing having an opening on one side in a first direction, a panel at least partly exposed through the opening and configured to receive a touch operation and a pressing operation, a ho...

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US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on June 23 for "Input apparatus having a touch panel held by a holder movable relative to a circuit board" (Japanese Inventors)