Abstract: A sheet material for a pressure-sensitive detecting device has a corrugated and electrically conductive net having a multiplicity of corrugations on each side thereof and covered by an electrically insulating material. The net is embedded in an electrically insulating material, except for its corrugations which are exposed from the insulating film and the insulating material.

Abstract: An input device for use in a display unit serving as a terminal of a computer has first and second insulating sheets and an insulating spacer sandwiched between the first and second sheets. The first sheet has first terminal leads on its both ends, while the second sheet has second terminal leads which extend in perpendicular relation to the first terminal leads. The upper surface is covered with a flexible, insulating, protective sheet. The spacer includes lattice-like conductors and consists of a material having cells of gas and elasticity and flexibility such as silicone foam. A fixed voltage is alternately applied across both ends of the first sheet and across both ends of the second sheet. When the protective sheet is depressed at a point P as by a depression pen, the position of the point is measured and represented by means of X- and Y-coordinates.

Abstract: A new and efficient input device of an electrode contact type which has a high mechanical strength and durability and can assure accurate detection of coordinates. The input device comprises an elastic flexible insulator spacer having a conductive element embedded therein which may be a gauze of thin wires of a good conductive material knit into the form of a grid. Upon depression of an insulator protective sheet, a portion of the spacer under the sheet is deformed to expose the conductive element downwardly therefrom thereby to short-circuit the element to a resistor layer under the spacer.

Abstract: A new and efficient input device of an electrode contact type which has a high mechanical strength and durability and can assure accurate detection of coordinates. The input device comprises an elastic flexible insulator spacer having a conductive element embedded therein which may be a gauze of thin wires of a good conductive material knit into the form of a grid. Upon depression of an outermost insulator protective sheet, a portion of the spacer is deformed to expose the conductive element below and above therefrom thereby to short-circuit the element to first and second resistor layers under and on the spacer, respectively.