Sensor and Method for Manufacturing the Same
AssigneeSekisui Polymatech Co., Ltd.
InventorsShinichi Tomooka, Yasushi Sakai
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Abstract
A sensor includes a base member and a sensor sheet, and the sensor sheet includes a sensor main body including sensor electrodes and a tail portion that includes wiring lines electrically connected to the sensor electrodes and that projects and extends with respect to the base member. The base member includes a joint surface portion that is fixed to the sensor main body and a separation portion that is disposed at a position facing a tail support portion of the tail support portion to which the tail portion is connected and that is not fixed to the tail support portion.
Claims12
A sensor comprising:
- a base member;
- and
- a sensor sheet,
- wherein the sensor sheet includes a sensor main body that includes at least one sensor electrode and a tail portion that includes a wiring line electrically connected to the at least one sensor electrode and that projects and extends with respect to the base member, and
- wherein the base member includes
- a joint surface portion that is fixed to the sensor main body and
- a separation portion that is disposed at a position facing a tail support portion of the sensor main body to which the tail portion is connected and that is not fixed to the tail support portion.
A method for manufacturing a sensor that includes a base member and a sensor sheet and in which the base member, which is made of a resin material, is integrally formed with the sensor sheet, the sensor sheet including a sensor main body that includes a sensor electrode and a tail portion that includes a wiring line electrically connected to the sensor electrode and that projects and extends with respect to the base member, the method comprising:
- providing a masking portion that is not fixed to the resin material on a tail support portion of the sensor main body to which the tail portion is connected;
- integrally forming the base member such that the base member covers the masking portion;
- and
- bending the tail portion with respect to the base member by bending the tail support portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.