H03K 2217/960705
Safety of capacitive touch and proximity switches
Official title: Safety of capacitive touch and proximity switches, e.g. increasing reliability, fail-safe
H03K2217/960705 (Safety of capacitive touch and proximity switches) appears on 346 US grants and 392 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03K- Granted patents
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- 4 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Grip detection device, failure determination method, and program4 Aug 2026US 12,700,862 B2Autoliv Development AB
- Capacitive sensor with optimized noise immunity5 May 2026US 12,620,992 B2Vitesco Technologies GmbH
- Capacitive button24 Mar 2026US 12,587,194 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Detection module, interface systems and method for detecting interactions of a user with a living plant and communicating control signals3 Mar 2026US 12,566,201 B2Arkyne Technologies S.L.
- Hand-held machine tool17 Feb 2026US 12,556,182 B2Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
- Grip detection device, failure determination method, and program26 Mar 2026US 2026/0088819 A1Autoliv Development AB
- Detecting device8 Jan 2026US 2026/0009658 A1Japan Display Inc.
- Electrostatic capacitance sensor14 Aug 2025US 2025/0260401 A1Atryz Yodogawa Co., Ltd.
- Systems, methods, and devices for sensor protection circuit17 Jul 2025US 2025/0233587 A1Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
- Contact determination method and contact determination device10 Jul 2025US 2025/0222972 A1Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Touch detection techniques for capacitive touch sense systems201US 8,040,142 B1Cypress Semiconductor Corporation · 2011
- Detection of and compensation for stray capacitance in capacitive touch sensors89US 7,567,240 B23M Innovative Properties Company · 2009
- Capacitive sensing apparatus that uses a combined guard and sensing electrode78US 7,583,092 B2Synaptics Incorporated · 2009
- Flexible touch-sense switch67US 7,091,886 B2Lear Corporation · 2006
- Capacitive keyboard with non-locking reduced keying ambiguity59US 7,821,425 B2Atmel Corporation · 2010