US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on March 17 for "Input device for detecting approach, contact, and pressing" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,818, issued on March 17, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd (Tokyo).

"Input device for detecting approach, contact, and pressing" was invented by Atsushi Matsuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device with a simple configuration capable of detecting approach and contact of a detection target and pressing by the detection target is provided. The input device includes a first electrode, an elastic dielectric provided on a back side of the first electrode, a second electrode provided with the elastic dielectric sandwiched between the second electrode and the first electrode, a detector that detects approach and contact ...