An interactive book particularly useful with computers

摘要

An interactive book (2), including a stiff backing panel (10) hinged along its center line to define front and back covers; a plurality of flexible book pages mounted along the center line between the inner faces of said front and back covers (10a and 10b); and a pressure-sensitive switching assembly carried on the inner face of one or both covers and defining a plurality of electrical switches adapted to be selectively actuated by the application of localized pressure to one of the pages. The switching assembly includes a pair of layers in overlying relation to each other, each layer carrying an electrically-conductive pattern normally spaced from the other. One of the layers is deformable such that its electrically-conductive pattern is engageable with that of the other layer at points thereof according to the localized pressure applied to one of the book pages and transmitted through the underlying pages to the switch assembly.