Extraordinary Sense of Touch! Tactile Feedback Actuator: Industry’s first Tactile Button for Smartphones

The industry's first tactile button for smartphones with tactile feedback actuator as the core component. It is reshaping people's understanding of touch interaction on mobile phones and bringing innovation in interactive technology to the "transformation" iteration of smartphones.

Tactile Feedback Actuator: Create the World's First Tactile Button

Industry's first tactile button for smartphones features tactile feedback actuator as core component. By using piezoelectric tactile feedback technology, the physical principle of forward and reverse piezoelectric effects is used to reproduce the real touch feeling of mobile phone buttons. When a driving voltage is applied to the tactile feedback actuator, the component undergoes mechanical deformation, thus causing vibration within a limited range. The old mechanical button interface is replaced with high-resolution local tactile buttons, reshaping the interaction method of the side buttons of the smartphone.

Pressing, clicking, sliding, etc. are commonly used interactive gestures on smartphones, tactile buttons using Tactile Feedback Actuators not only provide a real tactile feel similar to mechanical buttons, but it can also provide a richer, more realistic, and more natural tactile experience for immersive interactions.

Experience a richer, more realistic pressing feel

From the perspective of interaction design, tactile buttons using Tactile Feedback Actuators can reproduce the real touch feeling of mechanical buttons, the pressing feel when performing simple operations such as turning on and off.

This tactile solution can also provide users with a more technically difficult multi-level tactile experience. For example, during the photo-taking process, when focusing on the lens, you can feel the same half-press focusing touch as a digital SLR camera; when capturing a photo, you can experience the full pressing of the button. Such a rich and three-dimensional real touch is incomparable with traditional mechanical buttons.

Experience More Delicate and Natural Touch Sliding

The tactile button using piezoelectric tactile feedback technology can provide users with a sliding tactile feeling like scrolling a mouse when using their mobile phones to surf the Internet, simulating the "click-click" touch of pages scrolling on their fingertips. The tactile solution with tactile feedback actuator as the core component can provide local tactile sensation limited to the button itself and has a more delicate and natural feel than mechanical buttons.

If this technology is applied to mobile phone screens, it can make screen interaction get rid of the "boring" of a single vibration, provide tactile feedback effects required for different picture scenes, and improve user experience.

Piezoelectric Tactile Feedback Technology: A New Direction for The Development of The Consumer Electronics Industry

It is understood that since the existence of the first smartphone, the industry has been using the interaction mode of mechanical buttons. Tactile buttons using piezoelectric tactile feedback technology combine a familiar, real tactile experience with new touch functions and will be the first innovative technology product to truly replace the mechanical button interaction mode.

Coincidentally, the LG notebook Gram Style that made a splash at the 2023 US CES exhibition also uses piezoelectric touch components. The thickness of the core hardware pressure touch sensor is only 0.3mm, creating space plasticity for the design of a thin and light notebook. Highly sensitive sensors make notebook touch smoother and achieve the ultimate effect of different levels of pressure touch, the "hidden" design of the induction touch panel not only achieves a simplified and beautiful industrial design effect, but the seamless structure also ensures high-energy properties of waterproofing, dustproof and anti-pollution

It can be seen that piezoelectric touch and feedback technology has developed rapidly in the past two years and is gradually becoming one of the leading technical directions for technological development in the consumer electronics industry.

More application advantages

Low Power Consumption

Tactile feedback actuators consume less energy than products with mechanical technology (such as strain gauges and voice coils) and can save 10-13 times energy.

Small Size

The product is small in size and supports multi-channel design. Four channel buttons can be set in the micro package design.

Reliable and Durable               

The product protection level can reach IP68 level, which is highly waterproof, dustproof, oil-proof and pollution-proof.

Achieve Multifunctional Interaction

The product can realize multi-functional interaction, and can provide tactile feedback in specific areas for various gestures such as swipes, clicks and taps, helping the interactive functions of smartphones to develop in a more comprehensive, interactive and intuitive direction.

Beautiful Design

Solutions that apply this product can eliminate mechanical buttons, eliminate "raised" areas, simplify industrial design, and make the lines of the entire machine smoother and more beautiful.