US 12,443,297 B2
Touch pad with slidable arm portion
Akihisa Okuni, Kanagawa (JP); Issei Kurosawa, Kanagawa (JP); and Kazumi Nakaju, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Republic of (SG)
Filed by Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore (SG)
Filed on Jul. 2, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/761,760.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-122601 (JP), filed on Jul. 27, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0036220 A1, Jan. 30, 2025
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0354 (2013.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/03547 (2013.01) [G06F 1/169 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A touch pad on which a pointing operation is performed by a hand, comprising:
a sensor board configured to recognize a touch position by the hand;
an outer frame configured to be fixed to the sensor board;
an arm portion configured to be disposed on an inner side of the outer frame;
a switch configured to be provided between a first end of the arm portion and the sensor board; and
a shaft support portion configured to support the arm portion to be capable of being inclined in a pitch direction at an intermediate portion, wherein
a second end of the arm portion is displaced in a lifting/lowering direction together with the sensor board, and is supported to be slidable in a front-rear direction and a left-right direction that are parallel to a surface of the sensor board, and
as the sensor board is pushed by the hand, the arm portion is displaced relative to the outer frame while the second end is pushed down, and is inclined with respect to the shaft support portion in the pitch direction, and the first end is pushed up to perform a pressing operation with respect to the switch.