US 12,118,159 B2 · Electronic device

Abstract

An electronic device including: a display layer; and a sensor layer that includes: first electrodes in a sensing area and having different lengths; second electrodes in the sensing area; first cross electrodes in the sensing area; second cross electrodes in the sensing area and having different lengths; pads in a peripheral area; first lines extended from the first electrodes at a first side of the sensing area towards the pads; second lines extended from the second electrodes at a second side of the sensing area towards the pads; first cross lines extending from the first cross electrodes towards the pads; and second cross lines extending from the second cross electrodes towards the pads, the first lines being different from the second lines in number, and the first cross lines being different from the second cross lines in number.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An electronic device, comprising:

a plurality of electrodes having different lengths;
a plurality of cross electrodes having different lengths;
a plurality of pads electrically connected to the plurality of electrodes and the plurality of cross electrodes, respectively;
a plurality of lines extended from the plurality of electrodes towards the plurality of pads;
and
a plurality of cross lines extending from the plurality of cross electrodes towards the plurality of pads,
wherein an electrode having a maximum length among the plurality of electrodes is electrically connected to a line having a length less than a maximum length among the plurality of lines, and
wherein a cross electrode having a maximum length among the plurality of cross electrodes is electrically connected to a cross line having a length less than a maximum length among the plurality of cross lines.

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An electronic device, comprising:

a plurality of electrodes disposed in a sensing area;
a plurality of cross electrodes disposed in the sensing area and crossing the plurality of electrodes;
a plurality of lines disposed in a peripheral area and electrically connected to the plurality of electrodes;
and
a plurality of cross lines disposed in the peripheral area and electrically connected to the plurality of cross electrodes,
wherein an electrode having a maximum length among the plurality of electrodes is electrically connected to a line having a length less than a maximum length among the plurality of lines, and
wherein a cross electrode having a maximum length among the plurality of cross electrodes is electrically connected to a cross line having a length less than a maximum length among the plurality of cross lines.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/231,822Filed 9 Aug 2023 · continuation

Priority

KR 10-2020-01280905 Oct 2020

Published

US 2023/0043335 A130 Nov 2023

Granted

15 Oct 2024

Term ends

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Classification6 codes

G06F 3/0412
Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means: digitisers structurally integrated in a display
G06F 3/04164
Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers: connections between sensors and controllers, e.g. routing lines between…
G06F 3/0443
By capacitive means: using a single layer of sensing electrodes
G06F 2203/04103
Indexing scheme relating to G06F3/041 - G06F3/045: manufacturing, i.e. details related to manufacturing processes specially suited for touch…

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Application17/360,603Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Jun 2021

Application17/966,949Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Oct 2022

US 11,474,631 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Oct 2022

US 2023/0384877 A1Pre-grant publication · published 30 Nov 2023

US 11,762,492 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2022/0107696 A1Published application

US 2023/0043335 A1Published application

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Claims20