Touch panel
AssigneeTPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.
InventorsYau-Chen Jiang, Yanjun Xie, Bixin Guan, Limei Huang
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Abstract
A touch panel includes a protective cover with a lower surface herein, and an active region and a periphery region defined on the lower surface. A first sensing structure is disposed on the lower surface and covers the active region. A shelter layer is disposed on the lower surface and in the periphery region, wherein the shelter layer includes a highlight region and a highlight contrast region, a first pattern is disposed in the highlight region, and a non-transparent layer with a second pattern is disposed in the highlight region, wherein the first pattern is overlapped by the second pattern.
Claims19
A touch panel, comprising:
- a protective cover having a lower surface, wherein the lower surface comprises an active region and a peripheral region surrounding the active region;
- a first sensing structure disposed within the active region;
- a shelter layer disposed within the peripheral region, wherein the shelter layer comprises at least one highlight region and a highlight contrast region;
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- a non-transparent layer disposed within the highlight region and having a non-hollow portion,
- wherein the shelter layer comprises a first pattern and a portion not corresponding to the first pattern within each of the highlight regions, and
- wherein the first pattern is a hollow portion of the shelter layer, and the portion not corresponding to the first pattern is a non-hollow portion of the shelter layer and is overlaid by the non-hollow portion of the non-transparent layer;
- wherein a second sensing structure disposed between the protective cover and the shelter layer, wherein the second sensing structure is disposed on the shelter layer within the highlight region;
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- wherein a substrate disposed under the non-transparent layer, wherein the first sensing structure is formed on the substrate.
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