US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on Nov. 3 for "Input device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,066, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Input device" was invented by Takashi Amano (Fukushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knob of a KoD includes a fixed part attached to a touch sensor or a cover glass via an adhesive, a rotating part rotatably attached to the fixed part via a rotating shaft, and a conductor provided inside the rotating part. Low-permittivity members corresponding in number to the number of steps are provided at equal intervals on a bottom surface of the fixed part. When the knob is rotated, the rotation angle of the knob is detected based on a change in the capacitance cause...