Position sensor
CA 2352363 A1 · Owner: Collins, Ian Peter · Inventors: Collins, Ian Peter; Cauwood, Peter David; Ely, David Thomas Eliot
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A low cost x-y digitising system is provided for use in consumer electronic devices, such as portable digital assistants mobile telephones, web browsers , and the like. The digitiser includes a resonant stylus an excitation winding , for energising the resonant stylus and a set of sensor windings for sensing the signal generated by the stylus, from which the x-y position of the stylus is determined.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed November 29, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 29, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 29, 2021.
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