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US 2014/0192490 A1Published application
Modular Connector For Touch Sensitive Device
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsGordon F. Taylor, Thomas J. Rebeschi
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Abstract
Apparatus for providing modular connection means to electrodes in a touch-sensitive device. The modular connections may include electronics allowing controlling electronics to individually address electrodes associated with driving electrodes and sensing signals occurring on electrodes.
Claims8
A modular connector for use with a touch sensor, comprising:
- a substrate;
- a integrated circuit disposed on the substrate;
- a plurality of first terminal areas disposed on the substrate and individually addressable by the integrated circuit;
- and
- a second terminal area disposed on the substrate and communicatively coupled to the integrated circuit, such that when the modular connector is used with a touch sensor, the plurality of first terminal areas make electrical connection with a plurality of electrodes of the touch sensor, and the second terminal area makes electrical connection with a terminal area of another modular connector used with the touch sensor.
2 more elements
A touch sensor comprising:
- an array of electrodes;
- a plurality modular connectors interconnected together, each modular connector electrically coupled to a different subset of the array of electrodes, each modular connector comprising:
- an integrated circuit disposed on a substrate;
- and
- a terminal area for making electrical connection to another modular connector, wherein the subset of the array of electrodes electrically coupled to the modular connector are individually addressable by the integrated circuit.
2 more elements
A plurality of modular connectors for use with a touch sensor, each modular connector comprising:
- a plurality of first terminal areas;
- and
- second and third terminal areas, such that when the plurality of modular connectors is used with a touch sensor having an array of electrodes, the plurality of first terminal areas of each modular connector makes electrical connection with a different subset of the array of electrodes, and the second and third terminal areas of each modular connector electrically connect with different modular connectors in the plurality of modular connectors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.