Transparent touch panel with contractible resin layer used to maintain visibility

Abstract

A transparent touch panel includes a movable electrode film which is transparent and flexible, a hard coating layer which is transparent and formed on an upper surface of the movable electrode film, a movable electrode which is transparent and formed over a lower surface of the movable electrode film, a contractible resin layer which is transparent and formed between the movable electrode film and the movable electrode in correspondence to the hard coating layer, a fixed electrode-supporting member disposed in opposition to the lower surface of the movable electrode film, a fixed electrode formed on an upper surface of the fixed electrode-supporting member opposed to the lower surface of the movable electrode film, and spacers formed between the lower surface of the movable electrode film where the movable electrode is formed and the upper surface of the fixed electrode-supporting member where the fixed electrode is formed.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.