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US 8,471,138 B2Granted
Musical instrument with one sided thin film capacitive touch sensors
AssigneePure Imagination, LLC
InventorsMichael Wallace, Philip T. Odom
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Abstract
Touch sensitive musical instruments are described herein including embodiments having: one-sided capacitive touch sensors with conductive ground planes, one-sided capacitive touch sensors with air gaps, one-sided capacitive touch sensors with separating material, and/or one-sided capacitive touch sensors including a combination of conductive ground planes, air gaps, and/or separating material. Embodiments of touch sensitive musical instruments simulating string instruments such as guitars are described.
Claims10
A touch sensitive musical instrument comprising:
- a capacitive touch sensor layer;
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- an air gap layer adjacent the capacitive touch sensor layer configured to shield a backside of the capacitive touch sensor layer, the air gap layer further comprising a lattice structure, a corrugated structure, or a combination thereof to form the air gap layer adjacent the backside of the capacitive touch sensor layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.