KEYBOARD BASED IN POLYMER, COPOLYMER OR COMPOSITES WITH PIEZO- AND/OR PYROELECTRIC PROPERTIES AND RESPECTIVE USE

Patent №

US 8,314,722

Granted

2012-11-20

Filed 2010

Owner

UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12669602

The invention refers to a new keyboard based in a polymeric, copolymeric or composite film (11) with piezo- and pyroelectric properties capable of receiving a tactile signal and giving a respond in the form of an electrical signal. The system described in this invention includes one or more keys (10), being each one of them made by a piezoelectric film (11) with electric conductive contacts, transparent or not, above and below the piezoelectric film and with the inferior layer of grounded electrodes (13). The present invention allows the use of just one piezoelectric film (11) without external power supply, the use of electrode connections which form the keys (10) that converge in one side of the keyboard and are available in the spots (12) to make the connection to the active filter circuits instead of amplifiers in the electronic readout, as well as the possibility of introduction of new functionalities in these keyboards identical to the ones of tactile sensors, upon distinction between a pyroelectric and a piezoelectric signal from a particular key, differing the signals generated by pressure variation or by temperature variation.

AI hardwareG06F 3/023H03K 17/9643H03K 2217/96015

AI classification

AI hardware0.98
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO

assignment · 246500680

Assignors

LANCEROS MENDEZ, SENENTXU, VIEIRA ROCHA, JOSE GERARDO, GOMES DA SILVA SENCADAS, VITOR JOAO

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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