# US 12,118,159 B2 · Electronic device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,118,159 B2 - Document ID: US12118159B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/231,822 - Filed: 2023-08-09 - Published: 2023-11-30 - Granted: 2024-10-15 - Earliest claimed: 2020-10-05 - Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Samsung Display Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Jungmok Park; Tae Yong Eom; Hyun-Wook Cho; Dongjin Moon; Yeri Jeong - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12118159B2 ## CPC - 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 2203/04103: Manufacturing, i.e. details related to manufacturing processes specially suited for touch sensitive devices - 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: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## 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. ## Claims ### Claim 1 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. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, wherein the plurality of lines comprises a plurality of first lines extended from the plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second lines extended from the plurality of second electrodes, and wherein number of the plurality of first lines is different from number of the plurality of second lines. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the plurality of first electrodes are spaced apart from the plurality of pads with the plurality of second electrodes therebetween, and the plurality of first lines are fewer in number than the plurality of second lines. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the plurality of cross electrodes comprises a plurality of first cross electrodes and a plurality of second cross electrodes, wherein the plurality of cross lines comprises a plurality of first cross lines extended from the plurality of first cross electrodes and a plurality of second cross lines extended from the plurality of second cross electrodes, and wherein the plurality of first cross lines are greater in number than the plurality of second cross lines. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The electronic device of claim 4, wherein a difference in number between the plurality of first lines and the plurality of second lines is fewer than a difference in number between the plurality of first cross lines and the plurality of second cross lines. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The electronic device of claim 4, wherein the plurality of first cross electrodes are at least three times greater in number than the plurality of second cross electrodes. ### Claim 7 (depends on 4) The electronic device of claim 4, wherein a first electrode having a maximum length among the plurality of first electrodes has a shorter length than a second electrode having a maximum length among the plurality of second electrodes, and a first cross electrode having a maximum length among the plurality of first cross electrodes has a longer length than a second cross electrode having a maximum length among the plurality of second cross electrodes. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The electronic device of claim 1, wherein a direction in which the plurality of pads are arranged is substantially same as a direction in which the plurality of cross electrodes are arranged. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The electronic device of claim 1, wherein a direction in which the plurality of pads are arranged is different from each of a first direction in which the plurality of electrodes are arranged and a second direction in which the plurality of cross electrodes are arranged. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The electronic device of claim 1, wherein a region in which the plurality of electrodes and the plurality of cross electrodes are disposed is a circle or oval shape. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of lines include a plurality of first lines extending along a first rotation direction and a plurality of second lines extending along a second rotation direction different from the first rotation direction. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the plurality of cross lines include a plurality of first cross lines disposed between a sensing area and the plurality of lines, and a plurality of second cross lines spaced apart from the sensing area with the plurality of second lines therebetween, wherein the sensing area is a region in which the plurality of electrodes and the plurality of cross electrodes are disposed. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the plurality of second lines are provided in a greater number than the plurality of first lines, and the plurality of second cross lines are provided in a fewer number than the plurality of first cross lines. ### Claim 14 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. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the plurality of lines include a plurality of first lines and a plurality of second lines spaced apart from each other with the sensing area therebetween and having a difference in number, the plurality of cross lines include a plurality of first cross lines and a plurality of second cross lines spaced apart from each other with the sensing area therebetween and having a difference in number, and the difference in number between the plurality of first cross lines and the plurality of second cross lines is greater than the difference in number between the plurality of first lines and the plurality of second lines. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The electronic device of claim 15, further comprising a plurality of pads electrically connected to the plurality of electrodes and the plurality of cross electrodes, respectively, and wherein: some of the plurality of cross electrodes and the plurality of first cross lines are connected to each other in a first connection area; some of the other plurality of cross electrodes and the plurality of second cross lines are connected to each other in a second connection area; and the first connection area is closer to the plurality of pads than the second connection area. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The electronic device of claim 16, wherein an area of the second connection area is smaller than an area of the first connection area. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes arranged along a first direction, wherein the plurality of cross electrodes comprises a plurality of first cross electrodes and a plurality of second cross electrodes arranged along a second direction crossing the first direction, wherein a first boundary between the plurality of first cross electrodes and the plurality of second cross electrodes is spaced apart from a first reference line that passes through a center of the sensing area and extends in the first direction, and wherein a second boundary between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes is spaced apart from a second reference line passing through the center of the sensing area and extending in the second direction. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The electronic device of claim 18, further comprising a plurality of pads electrically connected to the plurality of electrodes and the plurality of cross electrodes, respectively, wherein the plurality of pads are spaced apart from the first reference line in the second direction. ### Claim 20 (depends on 18) The electronic device of claim 18, further comprising a plurality of pads electrically connected to the plurality of electrodes and the plurality of cross electrodes, respectively, wherein the plurality of pads comprise a plurality of first pads and a plurality of second pads which are spaced apart from each other with the first reference line therebetween.