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US 9,437,155 B2Granted
Touch sensing device
AssigneeIndustrial Technology Research Institute
InventorsChen-Pang Kung, Yu-Jen Chen, Chen-Wei Lin
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Abstract
A touch sensing device is provided. The device includes a substrate; a plurality of first electrodes formed on the substrate and arranged along a first direction without overlapping one another; a first insulating layer formed on the substrate and covering the plurality of first electrodes; and a plurality of second electrodes formed on the first insulating layer and arranged along a second direction without overlapping one another, wherein the first direction is vertical to the second direction.
Claims7
A touch sensing device, comprising:
- a substrate;
- a wire layer comprising a plurality of wires formed on the substrate;
- a first insulating layer formed on the wire layer and a plurality of cavities are formed on the first insulating layer;
- a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes formed on the substrate and arranged along a first direction and a second direction without overlapping one another, and the first electrodes are connected by the plurality of wires via the plurality of cavities;
- a protecting layer formed on the first insulating layer and covering the plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes,
- wherein each of the first electrodes has a first top surface facing away from the substrate, a first bottom surface facing the substrate, and a first side surface connecting the first top surface and the first bottom surface, each of the second electrodes has a second top surface facing away from the substrate, a second bottom surface facing the substrate, and a second side surface connecting the second top surface and the second bottom surface, the first insulating layer covers the first bottom surface, the first side surface, the second bottom surface and the second side surface and exposes the first top surface and the second top surface, the protecting layer covers the first top surface and the second top surface;
- a material layer formed on the wire layer and comprising a second insulating layer or an adhesive layer;
- a plurality of layer pairs formed on the material layer and configured to raise interference-proofing, water-proofing and optical performance, wherein the layer pairs are formed on the material layer in sequence, and each of the layer pairs comprises a third electrode layer and a third insulating layer formed in sequence from a side adjacent to the material layer to another side away from the material layer;
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- another third electrode layer formed on the layer pairs,
- wherein the first direction is orthogonal to the second direction, the first electrodes and the second electrodes are configured to sense capacitance variation in respond to a conductor indirectly touching at least one of the first electrodes and the second electrodes.
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