H03K 17/962
Capacitive touch switches
Official title: {Capacitive touch switches}
H03K17/962 (Capacitive touch switches) appears on 2,679 US grants and 2,990 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03K- Granted patents
- 2,679
- Published applications
- 2,990
- Assignees
- 1,088
- Inventors
- 5,048
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 9 | 0 |
| 1977 | 13 | 0 |
| 1978 | 15 | 0 |
| 1979 | 9 | 0 |
| 1980 | 14 | 0 |
| 1981 | 17 | 0 |
| 1982 | 6 | 0 |
| 1983 | 8 | 0 |
| 1984 | 4 | 0 |
| 1985 | 7 | 0 |
| 1986 | 3 | 0 |
| 1987 | 8 | 0 |
| 1988 | 12 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995 | 5 | 0 |
| 1996 | 6 | 0 |
| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
| 1998 | 11 | 0 |
| 1999 | 11 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 4 |
| 2002 | 9 | 9 |
| 2003 | 11 | 16 |
| 2004 | 7 | 18 |
| 2005 | 12 | 32 |
| 2006 | 20 | 49 |
| 2007 | 30 | 65 |
| 2008 | 18 | 72 |
| 2009 | 27 | 101 |
| 2010 | 49 | 121 |
| 2011 | 48 | 124 |
| 2012 | 90 | 147 |
| 2013 | 122 | 207 |
| 2014 | 147 | 215 |
| 2015 | 152 | 192 |
| 2016 | 204 | 174 |
| 2017 | 188 | 185 |
| 2018 | 181 | 197 |
| 2019 | 209 | 224 |
| 2020 | 211 | 170 |
| 2021 | 175 | 188 |
| 2022 | 153 | 168 |
| 2023 | 141 | 111 |
| 2024 | 140 | 88 |
| 2025 | 80 | 73 |
| 2026 | 51 | 40 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Illuminated control module for a motor vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,753,904 B2Dav
- Electronic devices with sensors29 Sep 2026US 12,748,309 B2Apple Inc.
- Sensor for controlling access to a motor vehicle, having an electrode surrounded by an antenna29 Sep 2026US 12,750,056 B2Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
- Vehicle electrical switch assembly22 Sep 2026US 12,744,530 B2Nissan North America, Inc.
- Input device15 Sep 2026US 12,738,939 B2Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
- Capacitive switch structure for nondiscrete, tactile and nontactile switches with customizable minimum activation thresholds8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309556 A1Nitto Bend Technologies, Inc.
- Switch device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312585 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
- Touch switch1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303094 A1MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
- Device having integrated interface system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277330 A1Apple Inc.
- Electronic pen and electronic pen body portion17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277346 A1Wacom Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for integrating manual input3,711US 6,323,846 B1University of Delaware · 2001
- Differential touch sensor and control circuit therefor916US 6,310,611 B1Touchsensor Technologies, LLC · 2001
- Touch switch with integral control circuit859US 6,320,282 B1Touchsensor Technologies, LLC · 2001
- Capacitive sensor and array762US 6,452,514 B12002
- Touch sensor and control circuit therefor717US 5,594,222 AIntegrated Controls · 1997