US 12,216,837 B2
Input device and interface device including the same
Taehee Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR); Chul Kim, Hwaseong-si (KR); Hee Seomoon, Seoul (KR); and Hyeon Jun Lee, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/219,688.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0101179 (KR), filed on Aug. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0050535 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/021 (2006.01); A61B 5/024 (2006.01); A61B 5/1455 (2006.01); G06F 3/0354 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/03545 (2013.01) [A61B 5/02141 (2013.01); A61B 5/02433 (2013.01); A61B 5/14552 (2013.01); A61B 5/6897 (2013.01); G06F 3/0441 (2019.05); G06F 3/0442 (2019.05)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An input device comprising:
a housing having a transmissive portion;
a communicator in the housing and configured to exchange a signal externally;
a pressure sensor configured to detect a value of a pressure applied on an external circumferential surface of the housing toward an interior of the housing and disposed in the housing along an inner circumferential surface of the housing and curved along the inner circumferential surface of the housing; and
a measurement sensor in the housing and facing the transmissive portion to transmit or receive light through the transmissive portion,
wherein a portion of the pressure sensor facing the transmissive portion has an opening.