# US 12,113,268 B2 · Antenna-inserted electrode structure and image display device including the same > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,113,268 B2 - Document ID: US12113268B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/895,262 - Filed: 2022-08-25 - Published: 2022-12-29 - Granted: 2024-10-08 - Earliest claimed: 2020-02-25 - Assignees: Dongwoo Fine-Chem Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Dongwoo Fine-Chem Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Byung Jin Choi; Jae Hyun Lee; Chang Jun Maeng - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12113268B2 ## CPC - H01Q 1/2266: {disposed inside the computer} - H01Q 9/045: {with particular feeding means (for circular polarisation H01Q9/0428)} - G06F 3/0412: {Digitisers structurally integrated in a display} - G06F 3/04164: {Connections between sensors and controllers, e.g. routing lines between electrodes and connection pads} - G06F 3/0443: {using a single layer of sensing electrodes} - G06F 3/0446: {using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes} - G06F 3/0448: {Details of the electrode shape, e.g. for enhancing the detection of touches, for generating specific electric field shapes, for enhancing display quality} - H01Q 1/243: {with built-in antennas} - H01Q 1/44: using equipment having another main function to serve additionally as an antenna {, e.g. means for giving an antenna an aesthetic aspect}(H01Q1/27 - H01Q1/34 take precedence) - H01Q 21/08: the units being spaced along or adjacent to a rectilinear path {(waveguide fed H01Q21/0037)} - G06F 2203/04111: Cross over in capacitive digitiser, i.e. details of structures for connecting electrodes of the sensing pattern where the connections cross each other, e.g. bridge structures comprising an insulating layer, or vias through substrate - G06F 2203/04112: Electrode mesh in capacitive digitiser: electrode for touch sensing is formed of a mesh of very fine, normally metallic, interconnected lines that are almost invisible to see. This provides a quite large but transparent electrode surface, without need for ITO or similar transparent conductive material - H01Q: ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS (radiators or antennas for microwave heating H05B6/72) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract An antenna-inserted electrode structure of an embodiment includes a substrate layer including a touch sensing region and an antenna-touch sensing region, first sensing electrodes arranged in the touch sensing region of the substrate layer, second row sensing electrodes and second column sensing electrodes arranged in the antenna-touch sensing region of the substrate layer, second bridge electrodes configured to connect the second row sensing electrodes adjacent to each other in a row direction, second connection parts configured to connect the second column sensing electrodes adjacent to each other in a column direction, and antenna units. The antenna units respectively include radiators which are disposed in the antenna-touch sensing region of the substrate layer, have an area larger than each of the second row sensing electrode and the second column sensing electrode, and are disposed by avoiding the second bridge electrodes and the second connection parts in a planar direction. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An antenna-inserted electrode structure comprising: a substrate layer comprising a touch sensing region and an antenna-touch sensing region; first sensing electrodes arranged in the touch sensing region of the substrate layer; second row sensing electrodes and second column sensing electrodes which are arranged in the antenna-touch sensing region of the substrate layer; second bridge electrodes configured to connect the second row sensing electrodes adjacent to each other in a row direction; second connection parts configured to connect the second column sensing electrodes adjacent to each other in a column direction; and a plurality of antenna units respectively comprising radiators which are disposed in the antenna-touch sensing region of the substrate layer, and are disposed by avoiding the second bridge electrodes and the second connection parts in a planar direction, wherein the second row sensing electrodes are disposed around the radiator, and comprise sub-row sensing electrodes having a bar pattern or a bent pattern shape extending along an edge of the radiator. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 1, wherein the first sensing electrodes comprise: first row sensing electrodes and first column sensing electrodes; first bridge electrodes configured to connect the first row sensing electrodes adjacent to each other in the row direction; and first connection parts configured to connect the first column sensing electrodes adjacent to each other in the column direction. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 2, wherein the first row sensing electrode and the second row sensing electrode have the same area, and the first column sensing electrode and the second column sensing electrode have the same area. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 2, wherein the first row sensing electrode has a larger area than the second row sensing electrode, and the first column sensing electrode has a larger area than the second column sensing electrode. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 4, wherein the second row sensing electrode and the second column sensing electrode correspond to 4n-division (n is a natural number) of the first row sensing electrode and the first column sensing electrode, respectively. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 4, wherein the first row sensing electrodes are connected with each other in the row direction to form first sensing electrode rows, and the second row sensing electrodes are connected with each other in the row direction to form second sensing electrode rows. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 6, further comprising: first row traces which extend from each of the first sensing electrode rows in the touch sensing region; and a second row trace which merges the plurality of second sensing electrode rows and extends in the antenna-touch sensing region. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 1, wherein all the first sensing electrodes, the second row sensing electrodes, the second column sensing electrodes, and the antenna units are disposed on the same layer or at the same level. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 1, wherein the antenna unit further comprises a transmission line extending from the radiator. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 9, wherein the radiator and the transmission line have a mesh structure. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 10, wherein the first sensing electrodes, the second row sensing electrodes, and the second column sensing electrodes have the same mesh structure as the radiator. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 11, wherein the second bridge electrodes have a solid structure. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 10, further comprising a dummy mesh pattern which surrounds peripheries of the radiator. ### Claim 14 (depends on 10) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 10, wherein the antenna unit further comprises a signal pad connected to one end of the transmission line and having a solid pattern structure. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 1, wherein the radiator has a larger area than an area of each of the second row sensing electrode and the second column sensing electrode. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 15, wherein each of the second row sensing electrode or the second column sensing electrode corresponds to 4n-division (n is a natural number) of the radiator. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 1, wherein central portions of the radiators are disposed between alignment lines in which the second bridge electrodes and the second connection parts are respectively arranged in the planar direction. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) An image display device comprising the antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 1. ### Claim 19 An antenna-inserted electrode structure comprising: a substrate layer comprising a touch sensing region and an antenna-touch sensing region; first sensing electrodes arranged in the touch sensing region of the substrate layer; second row sensing electrodes and second column sensing electrodes which are arranged in the antenna-touch sensing region of the substrate layer; second bridge electrodes configured to connect the second row sensing electrodes adjacent to each other in a row direction; second connection parts configured to connect the second column sensing electrodes adjacent to each other in a column direction; and a plurality of antenna units respectively comprising radiators which are disposed in the antenna-touch sensing region of the substrate layer, and are disposed by avoiding the second bridge electrodes and the second connection parts in a planar direction, wherein the second connection parts comprise a modified connection part which extends along an edge of the radiator around the radiator and includes a bent portion. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) An image display device comprising the antenna-inserted electrode structure according to claim 19.