HAPTIVITY® - Virtual reality for mechanical button feeling

1. Pressure feeling by a specified pressure detection threshold before the switch event starts.
2. Specified frequency vibration of the touched surface with one rapid shot wave and natural damping wave.
3. Short timing of the wave output after sensing finger pressure.
4. Different frequencies and waves realize different button feelings.

The human finger cannot distinguish between a vertical movement / vibration of the surface and a horizontal movement / vibration of the surface. Only the scalar value of acceleration is recognized. Considering this, there are two basic approaches to realize a surface vibration:

This is an example of incorporating an LCD with a touch panel. The number of piezos depends on size and design. The core of the unit is the Haptic controller with the following key functions:

• receive the voltage input from the piezo and interpret the pressure load
• trigger the pressure threshold, generate and amplify the actuation voltage
• get the local information of the touch from the touch panel controller and adopt the output signal according to the location

To achieve an authentic button feeling with flexible adoption to different kinds of HMI it has the following specific features:

Specific features of the KYOCERA HAPTIVITY^® control IC:

• 7 “hold down” stages
  → allow multi-step operation
• 256 hold down threshold values
  → precise adjustment of pressure strength
• 14 different wave patterns
  → realization of different knob feelings
• vibration output strength adjustable in steps from 1 – 100
  → precise actuation control
• local correction (“weighting”) for
  → threshold value level
  → vibration output strength
  → frequency characteristic