WO2015154465A1

WO2015154465A1 - Terminal with extended keys

Info

Publication number: WO2015154465A1
Application number: PCT/CN2014/091175
Authority: WO
Inventors: 刘昭元
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2014-08-13
Filing date: 2014-11-14
Publication date: 2015-10-15
Also published as: CN204066059U

Abstract

Disclosed in the utility model is a terminal with extended keys, which comprises: touch keys, a rear housing contact electrode and a mainboard contact electrode, wherein the touch keys are triggered to generate an electrical signal when being touched and are arranged on a rear housing of the terminal, the rear housing contact electrode is used for accessing the electrical signal and is electrically connected with the touch keys, the mainboard contact electrode is used for transferring the electrical signal, and one end of the mainboard contact electrode is electrically connected with the rear housing contact electrode while the other end is electrically connected with a processor of the terminal. According to the utility model, a plurality of physical touch keys are added to the rear housing of the terminal, thus when the terminal is used in some games and other such applications, display area can be widened and flexibility and accuracy in game manipulation is remarkably increased.

Description

Terminal with extended button

Technical field

The utility model relates to the field of intelligent terminals, in particular to a terminal with extended buttons.

Background technique

Currently, smart terminals such as smart phones are mostly controlled by a touch screen and an auxiliary button. When the user operates the touch screen, it can only operate with one finger. In some applications, the touch control is not very convenient, such as quick input of hands and fingers or complicated game control. Secondly, the current mainstream touch screens are equipped with some touch buttons, such as "home page", "menu" and "return" buttons. These buttons can be physical touch buttons or software simulations. In either case, the display area is occupied, reducing the effective display area.

Utility model content

The purpose of the utility model is to provide a terminal with an extended button, which can better solve the problems that the terminal button is set in the terminal housing with the screen of the terminal and the button operation is inflexible and the display area is reduced.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a terminal having an extended button is provided, including:

a touch button that triggers a corresponding electrical signal when touched, and is disposed on a rear housing of the terminal;

a rear case contact electrode for accessing the electrical signal, which is electrically connected to the touch button;

The main board contact electrode for transmitting the electrical signal has one end electrically connected to the rear case contact electrode and the other end electrically connected to the terminal processor.

Preferably, the touch button is a physical touch button, and the surface of the touch area where the physical touch button is located is convex or concave.

Preferably, the terminal further includes a sliding control strip that triggers a sliding signal when touched, and the sliding control strip is disposed on the rear housing to be electrically connected to the rear housing contact electrode.

Preferably, the sliding control bar is a physical touch button, and the surface of the touch area where the physical touch button is located is convex or concave.

Preferably, the touch area has a capacitive sensing electrode for sensing that the extended button is triggered.

Preferably, the capacitive sensing electrode is a metal thin film formed by a printing or sputtering process.

Preferably, the touch button is electrically connected to the rear case contact electrode through a wire.

Preferably, the wire is a metal film formed by a printing or sputtering process.

Preferably, the rear case contact electrode is electrically connected to the main board contact electrode through a conductive rubber.

Preferably, the conductive rubber is formed by alternately layering and superposing conductive silica gel and insulating silica gel.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the following advantages:

1. The utility model adds a physical extended button (ie, a touch button) on the rear casing of a terminal such as a smart phone, so that the user can realize the input of the ten fingers with both hands, which is quick and convenient, thereby greatly increasing the game in games and other applications. Control flexibility and accuracy;

2. The utility model can place touch buttons such as “homepage”, “menu” and “return” of the front casing of the terminal in the existing terminal to the rear casing of the terminal, thereby increasing the display area of the screen.

DRAWINGS

1 is a schematic view of a rear case of a terminal with an extended button according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a schematic diagram of electrical connection relationships of terminals with extended buttons according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a schematic view showing an extended button of a rear casing provided on a screen of a front casing of the terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Legend: 1- Rear housing; 2-Touch button; 3-wire; 4- rear housing contact electrode; 5-conductive rubber; 6-mother board contact electrode; 7-capacitor button processing module; 8-processor unit; 9-slide control bar; 10-LCD display; 11-screen display button.

detailed description

The preferred embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The terminal of the utility model has a front casing and a rear casing, wherein a screen is mounted on the upper surface of the front casing, in order to increase flexibility and accuracy of user manipulation, and increase the display area of the screen, the rear casing can be Extend physical touch buttons and/or slide control bars. Take the example of adding multiple physical touch buttons on the rear case, each physics The touch button corresponds to a specific sensing area (ie, a touch area) on the rear casing, and each area corresponds to a button signal (ie, an electric signal). When the finger touches the sensing area, the corresponding button signal is triggered, and the button signal is transmitted to The terminal's processor implements key input recognition.

The utility model can realize multi-finger quick input function by adding a plurality of physical expansion buttons (ie, touch buttons and/or sliding control bars) on the rear casing of the terminal such as a smart phone, and the user can realize the multi-finger quick input function, so that the user It can realize the input of ten fingers for both hands, which is quick and convenient, which can greatly increase the control flexibility and accuracy of the game in games and other applications.

Further, the terminal rear case refers to a side case corresponding to the terminal front case having a screen. The terminal may be a mobile phone, a tablet PAD computer, etc., and the screen may be a touch screen.

Embodiment 1

1 is a schematic diagram of a rear case of a terminal with an extended button according to an embodiment of the present invention. A capacitive inductive button is used. As shown in FIG. 1 , a plurality of touch buttons 2 are added to the rear case 1 of the terminal. In FIG. 1, a terminal with an extended button provided by the present invention will be described by adding eight touch buttons 2 to the rear case as an example. The touch button 2 is capacitively coupled, and the button area (touch area) where the touch button 2 is located generates a metal film through a printing or sputtering process to serve as a capacitive sensing electrode. When the user touches the touch button 2, a corresponding button is triggered. signal. Eight metal films are made as the wires 3 and the rear case contact electrodes 4 by the same process, so that the generated button signals are connected through the wires 3. The rear housing contact electrode 4 is connected to the main board contact electrode 6 through the conductive rubber 5, and the conductive rubber 5 is also called a zebra strip, which is alternately layered and laminated by conductive silica gel and insulating silica gel to form a flexible connection of a set of electrical signals. In the present invention, the button signal of the rear housing contact electrode 4 is transmitted to the main board contact electrode 6 through the conductive rubber 5.

2 is a schematic diagram showing the electrical connection relationship of the terminal with the extended button provided by the embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, after the rear cover contact electrode 4 is connected to the button signal, the button signal is transmitted to the conductive rubber 5 to The main board to which it is electrically connected contacts the electrode 6. The main board contact electrode 6 connects these key signals to the capacitive key processing module 7. The capacitive button processing module 7 can parse the specific key operation and report it to the processor 8.

Since the touch button 2 is on the back side of the terminal (ie, the side opposite to the screen), the surface of the touch area corresponding to each button can be made into a protrusion or a groove for the convenience of the user. In addition, some key touch buttons such as “Home”, “Menu” or “Back” can be marked with different bumps (similar to Braille, but simpler than Braille, only for labeling, such as PC keyboard “F” and “J” "Marking bumps on the buttons."

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the extended button of the rear casing displayed on the screen of the front casing of the terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, in order to improve the user experience, in the terminal application interface, in order to facilitate the user operation It is also possible to project the position of the physical button 2 on the rear housing 1 of the terminal to the LCD display 10 on the front side (i.e., the upper surface of the front housing of the terminal). In order to avoid conflict with the current display content, it can be displayed in a semi-transparent manner or at a fixed time interval. When the user operates the touch button 2, the corresponding touch button position on the LCD display 10 will respond with a change, as shown by the button screen display 11 in FIG.

The number and position of the buttons can be easily designed according to the finger operation, and is not limited to the case shown in FIG. Users can also define left-hand and/or right-hand operations, as well as the specific functions of each button, according to their own habits. For example, adding 8 touch buttons to the rear case as shown in FIG. 1 defines A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H8 touch buttons for inputting A, B, and C, respectively. , D, E, F, G, H8 uppercase English letters (can also be defined as other specific functions, such as three of the touch buttons are defined as "home page", "menu" and "return", to achieve "home page", "Menu" and "Return" functions); define the user's two-hand operation, in which the user operates the E, F, G, H4 touch buttons in the left hand, and the A, B, C, and D4 touch buttons in the right hand; when the user touches the left hand When the touch button F is touched, the electrical signal generated by the touch of the touch button F is transmitted through the electrical connection relationship of FIG. 2, and the input content is displayed as an uppercase English letter "F" through the screen. Similarly, the user can define the left-hand operation, and the A, B, and C touch buttons are respectively defined as three functions: “home page”, “menu”, and “return”. In other words, the utility model can locate the existing terminal in the terminal. The touch buttons such as "home page", "menu" and "return" of the front case are placed in the rear case of the terminal, and the functions of the touch buttons such as "home page", "menu" and "return" are realized, thereby increasing the display of the screen. When the user touches the touch button A with the left hand, the electrical signal generated by the touch of the touch button F is transmitted through the electrical connection relationship of FIG. 2, and the homepage of the terminal system is displayed through the screen.

Embodiment 2

On the basis of the first embodiment, the slide control strip 9 is added, and the conventional "volume +" and "volume -" side keys are replaced by default.

In addition to the ability to quickly adjust the volume, the slide control strip 9 can also be used as control for other continuous control quantities in some application scenarios, such as brightness or aiming focus in the game, focal length in the photographing application, and the like.

The sliding control strip 9 is electrically connected to the rear housing contact electrode 4 so as to generate a sliding signal when it is triggered and transmitted to the rear housing contact electrode 4, and the rear housing contact electrode 4 is connected to the main board contact electrode 6 through the conductive rubber 5, The sliding signal is connected to the capacitive button processing module 7 by the motherboard contact electrode 6, so that the capacitive button processing module 7 can parse the specific operation and report it to the processor 8. Specifically, the slide control strip 9 is electrically connected to the rear case contact electrode 4 by a wire, which is a metal thin film formed by a printing or sputtering process.

The sliding control strip 9 can be a physical touch button, and the surface of the touch area where the physical touch button is located can be convex or concave. The touch area where the physical touch button is located has a capacitive sensing electrode that is triggered by the inductive sliding control strip 9, and the capacitive sensing electrode is A metal film formed by a printing or sputtering process.

The slide control strip 9 can be set as a horizontal slide bar or a vertical slide bar according to different product requirements, and is not limited to the position and number shown in FIG. 1, so that it is convenient to independently control a plurality of control amounts.

In summary, the utility model has the following technical effects:

1. After adding multiple physical buttons to the rear cover of the smart terminal (such as mobile phone), the user can realize the input of ten fingers for both hands, which is quick and convenient, especially in games and other applications, which can greatly increase the control flexibility and accuracy of the game;

2. Put the touch buttons such as “Home”, “Menu” and “Return” into the rear housing of the terminal to increase the display area;

3. The current touch control mode is finger touch control on the display screen, which will block the line of sight during operation and affect the user experience. After the utility model adds a plurality of physical expansion buttons on the rear casing of the terminal, the finger is in the rear shell of the terminal. The touch control is performed on the body, and the operation does not affect the user's line of sight, which improves the user experience.

Although the present invention has been described in detail above, the present invention is not limited thereto, and those skilled in the art can make various modifications in accordance with the principles of the present invention. Therefore, modifications made in accordance with the principles of the present invention should be understood as falling within the scope of the present invention.

Industrial applicability

According to the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present invention, by adding physical extension buttons (ie, touch buttons) on the rear casing of the terminal such as a smart phone, the user can realize the input of the ten fingers of the hands, which is quick and convenient, thereby being used in games and the like. , can greatly increase the control flexibility and accuracy of the game; and can put touch buttons such as “homepage”, “menu” and “return” of the front casing of the existing terminal into the rear casing of the terminal, thereby Increase the display area of the screen.

Claims

A terminal having an extended button, comprising:

a touch button that triggers a corresponding electrical signal when touched, and is disposed on a rear housing of the terminal;

a rear case contact electrode for accessing the electrical signal, which is electrically connected to the touch button;

The main board contact electrode for transmitting the electrical signal has one end electrically connected to the rear case contact electrode and the other end electrically connected to the terminal processor.
The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the touch button is a physical touch button, and a surface of the touch area where the physical touch button is located is convex or concave.
The terminal of claim 1, wherein the terminal further comprises a slide control strip that triggers a slip signal when touched, the slide control strip being disposed on the rear housing to be in contact with the rear housing The electrodes are electrically connected.
The terminal according to claim 3, wherein the sliding control bar is a physical touch button, and a surface of the touch area where the physical touch button is located is convex or concave.
The terminal of claim 2 or 4, wherein the touch area has a capacitive sensing electrode.
The terminal according to claim 5, wherein said capacitance sensing electrode is a metal thin film formed by a printing or sputtering process.
The terminal of claim 1, wherein the touch button is electrically connected to the rear case contact electrode through a wire.
The terminal according to claim 7, wherein the wire is a metal film formed by a printing or sputtering process.
The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the rear case contact electrode is electrically connected to the main board contact electrode through a conductive rubber.
The terminal according to claim 9, wherein the conductive rubber is formed by alternately layering and superposing conductive silica gel and insulating silica gel.