TOUCH DEVICE

• US 20130299327A1
• Filed: 12/26/2012
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: MA, XIAO-HUI, LI, XIN-PING
• Application Number:
  US13/726,610
• Publication Number:
  US 20130299327A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 200/5.A
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/962 Capacitive touch switches
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/9622 using a plurality of detectors, e.g. keyboard

Abstract

A touch device includes a touch panel, a circuit board, and at least one capacitive sensing element located between the touch panel and the circuit board. The circuit board includes a top layer and a bottom layer, each capacitive sensing element is mounted to the top layer, the bottom layer defines at least one first area, each first area corresponds to each capacitive sensing element, and each first area is not coated with copper.

Claims

1. A touch device comprising a touch panel, a circuit board, and at least one capacitive sensing element located between the touch panel and the circuit board;

wherein the circuit board comprises a top layer and a bottom layer, each capacitive sensing element is mounted to the top layer, the bottom layer defines at least one first area, each first area corresponds to each capacitive sensing element, and each first area is not coated with copper.

2. The touch device of claim 1, wherein a second area is defined by a vertical projection of the capacitive sensing element onto the bottom layer, the dimension of the second area is smaller than the dimension of corresponding first area.

3. The touch device of claim 1, wherein each first area is defined by a vertical projection of corresponding capacitive sensing element onto the bottom layer, the dimension of the second area is equal to the dimension of corresponding first area.

4. The touch device of claim 1, wherein each capacitive sensing element is a copper sheet.

5. The touch device of claim 1, wherein each capacitive sensing element is circularly shaped, each first area is a circle, the diameter of the capacitive sensing element is larger than the diameter of the corresponding first area.

6. The touch device of claim 1, wherein the area of the top layer that is outside of at least one capacitive sensing element is not coated with copper.

7. The touch device of claim 1, wherein the touch panel comprises a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, at least one label is located on the first surface, each capacitive sensing element contacts with the second surface, each label corresponds to each capacitive sensing element;

when a finger of the user contacts with the label, an amount of electric charge of corresponding capacitive sensing element is changed.

8. The touch device of claim 1, wherein the circuit board is located below the touch panel.

9. The touch device of claim 1, wherein the number of at least one capacitive sensing element is three, and three capacitive sensing elements are arranged along the same line.

10. The touch device of claim 7, wherein the number of at least one label is three, and three labels are arranged along the same line.

11. The touch device of claim 7, wherein each label is a symbol showing one of a play/pause key, a fast forward key, and a fast backward key.

12. The touch device of claim 1, wherein the bottom layer is not coated with copper.

13. The touch device of claim 1, wherein each capacitive sensing element is circularly shaped, each first area is a circle, the diameter of the capacitive sensing element is equal to the diameter of the corresponding first area.