Coordinate input device

• US 4,710,595 A
• Filed: 12/12/1986
• Issued: 12/01/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kimura, Kiyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): SCHREYER, STAFFORD
• Application Number:
  US06/941,160
• Time in Patent Office: 354 Days
• Field of Search: 178/18, 178/19, 324/207, 324/208
• US Class Current: 178/18.02
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/046 by electromagnetic means

Abstract

A coordinate input device is provided of the type comprising main loops made of conductors embedded parallelly in an input plane, a compensating loop disposed in the vicinity of the common wire of the main loops, switching elements for successively sending out a scanning signal to the individual main loops, a switching element for sending out a current to the compensating loop, a current drive circuit pertinent to the main loops, and a current drive circuit pertinent to the compensating loop, wherein a position is obtained on the basis of signals detected by a coordinate designating means capable of pointing out any spot on the input plane, which is characterized in that the output side of the main loops is connected with the input side of the compensating loop, whereby the total consumption power is not increased even by addition of the compensating loop.

Claims

1. A coordinate input device comprising

main loops made of conductors embedded parallelly in an input plane,

a compensating loop disposed in the vicinity of the common wire of said main loops,

switching elements for successively sending out a scanning signal to said individual main loops,

a switching element for sending out a current to said compensating loop,

a current drive circuit pertinent to said main loops, and

a current drive circuit pertinent to said compensating loop,

wherein a position is obtained on the basis of signals detected by a coordinate designating means capable of pointing out any spot on said input plane,

characterized in that the output side of said main loops is connected with the input side of said compensating loop.

2. A coordinate input device according to claim 1, wherein a current whose amplitude is one-half that of said main loop is supplied to said compensating loop.

3. A coordinate input device according to claim 1, wherein the input signal of said current drive circuit for said main loops is identical to that of said current drive circuit for said compensating loop, and the resistance of a resistor for restricting the current of said main loops is set identical to that of a resistor for restricting the current of said compensating loop.

4. A coordinate input device according to claim 1, wherein the current of said compensating loop is caused to flow therethrough in the opposite direction to that of said common wire.