Touch-sensing apparatus and electronic appliance including the same
AssigneeLG Innotek Co., Ltd.
InventorsHo Min LEE, Soung Kyu PARK, Jin Seok LEE
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Abstract
A touch-sensing apparatus and an electronic appliance including a touch-sensing apparatus are provided. The touch-sensing apparatus may include a substrate having an effective area and a non-effective area, a first decorative layer provided within a cavity provided in the non-effective area of the substrate, and having at least one groove that exposes a bottom surface of the cavity, a second decorative layer provided inside the at least one groove of the first decorative layer, and a fingerprint sensor provided on the first and second decorative layers.
Claims20
A touch-sensing apparatus, comprising:
- a substrate including an effective area and a non-effective area;
- a first decorative layer provided within a cavity provided in the non-effective area of the substrate, and having at least one groove that exposes a bottom surface of the cavity;
- a second decorative layer provided inside the at least one groove of the first decorative layer;
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- a touch sensor provided on the first and second decorative layers,
- wherein the first decorative layer provided on the bottom surface of the cavity has a thickness ranging from 40 nm to 70 nm.
An electronic appliance, comprising:
- a touch device including a touch-sensing apparatus;
- and
- a display panel connected to the touch-sensing apparatus, the touch-sensing apparatus including:
- a substrate having an effective area and a non-effective area;
- a first decorative layer provided within a cavity provided in the non-effective area of the substrate, and having at least one groove that exposes a bottom surface of the cavity;
- a second decorative layer provided inside the at least one groove of the first decorative layer;
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- a fingerprint sensor provided on the first and second decorative layers,
- wherein the first decorative layer provided on the bottom surface of the cavity has a thickness ranging from 40 nm to 70 nm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.