US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on Sept. 29 for "Input device" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,820, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Input device" was invented by Tsutomu Tatekawa (Miyagi, Japan), Shinichi Sagawai (Miyagi, Japan), Yoshihiro Hashimoto (Unterschleissheim, Germany) and Yuto Fujii (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes a touch input part installed on a steering wheel of a vehicle and supported so as to be able to vibrate, a detection part to detect an input operation to the touch input part, a vibration output part to vibrate the touch input part, and a controller to drive the vibration output part, wherein when the input operation is detected by t...