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Information display device and supporting frame for supporting a piezoelectric element for use in information display device

  • US 7,710,402 B2
  • Filed: 08/26/2004
  • Issued: 05/04/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An information display device comprising:

  • a touch panel;

    a frame supporting the touch panel, the frame having quadrilateral sides surrounding the touch panel with at least one side having at least one rectangular hole formed therein, the at least one rectangular hole extending longitudinally in a lengthwise direction and transversely in a widthwise direction;

    at least one strip-like piezoelectric element, which bows and arches in response to a force applied to said touch panel; and

    at least one torsion resilient deformation structure extending in the lengthwise and widthwise directions,wherein said at least one strip-like piezoelectric element is disposed adjacent an outer periphery of said touch panel,wherein the at least one torsion resilient deformation structure includes a first piezoelectric holder and a second piezoelectric holder spaced apart from one another, disposed in the at least one rectangular hole and connected to the frame, the first piezoelectric holder having a pair of first rotary shafts and a first piezoelectric flat panel-shaped holder, the first piezoelectric flat panel-shaped holder is disposed apart from the frame and has one first piezoelectric panel-shaped holder portion and another first piezoelectric panel-shaped holder portion integrally connected to the one first piezoelectric panel-shaped holder portion,wherein said at least one strip-like piezoelectric element is connected to the first and second piezoelectric holders andwherein respective ones of the pair of first rotary shafts are connected to the first piezoelectric holder at a unction of the one and the another first piezoelectric panel-shaped holder portions and extend in the widthwise direction to interconnect the first piezoelectric holder and the frame such that, upon applying the force to the touch panel, the at least one piezoelectric element bows and arches in response to the force applied to said touch panel while the pair of first rotary shafts twist in a resiliently biased manner and the first piezoelectric flat panel-shaped holder moves in a see-saw manner about the pair of first rotary shafts.

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