Capacitive information carrier with improved detection accuracy by means of a via and method for the manufacture thereof
AssigneeTouchcode Technologies, LLC
InventorsMatthias Foerster, Sascha Voigt, Jan Thiele, Karin Weigelt
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a capacitive, planar information carrier wherein vias form an electrical and/or galvanic connection between sub-areas of a first electrically conductive area being part of an electrically conductive layer on one side of the information carrier and an electrically conductive pattern on the other side of the information carrier. In another aspect, the invention relates to a method for the manufacture of an information carrier.
Claims15
A capacitive planar information carrier (1) comprising an electrically non-conductive substrate (2), an electrically conductive pattern (6) on a back side (9) of the information carrier (1) and a first, second and third electrically conductive area (3, 4, 5) forming an electrically conductive layer (13) on a front side (8) of the information carrier (1), wherein the electrically conductive pattern (6) and the first, second and third electrically conductive area (3, 4, 5) are formed from at least one sub-area respectively characterized in that
- information is encoded by characteristic features of the first electrically conductive area (3), said information being copied to the electrically conductive pattern (6) by a congruent or substantially congruent arrangement of the electrically conductive pattern (6) and the first electrically conductive area (3),
- wherein at least one sub-area of the first electrically conductive area (3) and at least one sub-area of the electrically conductive pattern (6) are galvanically connected by at least one via (7) comprising a bore hole (10), wherein the information is detectable by a capacitive touch screen (12), if the information carrier (1) faces the touch screen (12) with its back side (9).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.