Capacitive touch panel
AssigneeSuperc-Touch Corporation
InventorHsiang-Yu Lee
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Abstract
A capacitive touch panel consists of a touch panel having a plural conductive wires, a multiplex selector electrically connected to the plural conductive wires of the touch panel, a first switch electrically connected to the multiplex selector, a first resistor having a first resistor value, a second switch electrically connected to the resistor and the first switch, a capacitor having a capacitance value, the capacitor electrically connected to the first switch and the second switch, a third switch electrically connected to the capacitor, an Analogue to Digital converter, a fourth switch electrically connected to the Analogue to Digital converter and the third switch, and an integrating circuit electrically connected to the second switch and the fourth switch.
Claims18
A capacitive touch panel device comprising:
- a touch panel having a plural conductive wires;
- a multiplex selector electrically connected to the plural conductive wires of the touch panel;
- a first switch electrically connected to the multiplex selector;
- a first resistor having a first resistor value;
- a second switch electrically connected to the first resistor and the first switch;
- a capacitor having a capacitor value;
- the capacitor electrically connected to the first switch and the second switch;
- a third switch electrically connected to the capacitor;
- an analog to digital converter;
- a fourth switch electrically connected to the analog to digital converter and the third switch;
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- an integrating circuit electrically connected to the second switch and the fourth switch,
- wherein the third switch is switched to a DC power source and the second switch is switched to the capacitor for charging the capacitor;
- there is a conductive resistor with a second resistor value existed in the conductive wires between the contacting point of the touch panel and the multiplex selector;
- the third switch is switched to the fourth switch so to make the analog to digital converter electrically connect to the capacitor to read a first voltage value after the capacitor is charged;
- the first switch is switched to the capacitor so to make the capacitor charge a floating capacitor which is induced by an object applied to a contacting point on the touch panel;
- and the integrating circuit records an absolute value of a current flowing through the first resistor.
A capacitive touch panel comprising:
- a touch panel having a conductive plane and plural detecting points;
- a multiplex selector electrically connected to the plural detecting points of the touch panel;
- a first switch electrically connected to the above multiplex selector;
- a first resistor having a first resistance value;
- a second switch electrically connected to the first resistor and the first switch;
- a capacitor having a capacitance value, the capacitor electrically connected to the above first switch and the second switch;
- a third switch electrically connected to the capacitor;
- an analog to digital converter;
- a fourth switch electrically connected to the analog to digital converter and the third switch;
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- an integrating circuit electrically connected to the second switch and the fourth switch,
- wherein the third switch is switched to a DC power source and the switch is switched to such capacitor for charging such capacitor;
- the touching point and the conductive plane of plural detecting points, there is a conductive resistor existed individually between each detecting point and the touching point;
- there the conductive resistors have an individual resistance value;
- the third switch is switched to the fourth switch so to make the analog to digital converter electrically connect to the capacitor to read a first voltage value after the capacitor is charged;
- the first switch is switched to the capacitor so to make the capacitor charge a floating capacitor applied to a contacting point on the touch panel;
- and the integrating circuit records an absolute value of a current flowing through the first resistor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.