SENSOR DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SENSOR DEVICE, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND INPUT APPARATUS

• US 20150070600A1
• Filed: 09/03/2014
• Published: 03/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TANAKA, Takayuki, MIZUNO, Hiroshi, KAWAGUCHI, Hiroto, IIDA, Fumihiko, SUZUKI, Tomoaki, SHINKAI, Shogo, HASEGAWA, Hayato, KATSUHARA, Tomoko, NISHIMURA, Taizo, ABE, Yasuyuki
• Application Number:
  US14/476,124
• Publication Number:
  US 20150070600A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 349/12
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2457/20 Displays, e.g. liquid crystal displays, plasma displays
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 37/1292 selectively, e.g. in stripes, in patterns B32B37/0076 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 33/09 Magnetoresistive devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0445 using two or more layers of sensing electrodes, e.g. using two layers of electrodes separated by a dielectric layer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0446 using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/10 Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor

Abstract

A sensor device includes: a first base material and a second base material disposed apart to face each other; a plurality of first adhesion sections that are two-dimensionally arranged in a gap between the first base material and the second base material and have elasticity; and a mitigation section configured to mitigate an increase in contact area of each of the first adhesion sections to one of the first base material and the second base material, the contact area increasing as the gap narrows.

Claims

1. A sensor device comprising:

a first base material and a second base material disposed apart to face each other;

a plurality of first adhesion sections that are two-dimensionally arranged in a gap between the first base material and the second base material and have elasticity; and

a mitigation section configured to mitigate an increase in contact area of each of the first adhesion sections to one of the first base material and the second base material, the contact area increasing as the gap narrows.

2. The sensor device according to claim 1, wherein

each of the first adhesion sections is in contact with the first base material and the second base material,

a top on a second base material side of each of the first adhesion sections is round, and

the second base material has a depression serving as the mitigation section, at positions facing the respective first adhesion sections.

3. The sensor device according to claim 2, wherein an inner surface of the depression is round.

4. The sensor device according to claim 2, wherein the depression is annular.

5. The sensor device according to claim 2, wherein each of the first adhesion sections is formed by printing on a surface of the first base material.

6. The sensor device according to claim 1, wherein

each of the first adhesion sections is in contact with the first base material and the second base material,

the mitigation section is a plurality of convex annular bodies each provided on a surface of one of the first base material and the second base material, for each of the first adhesion sections, and

each of the first adhesion sections is in contact with the surface of the first base material or the second base material, through an opening of the convex annular body, as well as in contact with the convex annular body.

7. The sensor device according to claim 6, wherein each of the first adhesion sections and each of the convex annular bodies are formed by printing on the surface of one of the first base material and the second base material.

8. The sensor device according to claim 1, wherein

each of the first adhesion sections is in contact with the first base material and the second base material,

the mitigation section is a plurality of projections each provided at a position on a surface of one of the first base material and the second base material, without being in contact with each of the first adhesion sections, and

each of the projections is in contact with only one of the first base material and the second base material, when external force narrowing the projection is applied to neither the first base material nor the second base material.

9. The sensor device according to claim 8, wherein each of the first adhesion sections and each of the projections are formed by printing on the surface of one of the first base material and the second base material.

10. The sensor device according to claim 1, wherein

each of the first adhesion sections is in contact with the first base material, and

the mitigation section is a plurality of second adhesion sections disposed between the second base material and each of the first adhesion sections and having elasticity.

11. The sensor device according to claim 10, wherein

each of the first adhesion sections is formed by printing on a surface of the first base material, and

each of the second adhesion sections is formed by printing on a surface of the second base material.

12. The sensor device according to claim 1, wherein

the first base material is a first conductive layer, or a layer including the first conductive layer, and

the second base material is a second conductive layer electrically separated from the first conductive layer, or a layer including the second conductive layer.

13. The sensor device according to claim 1, wherein

each of the first adhesion sections has conductivity,

the first base material has a plurality of first wirings electrically connected to the plurality of first adhesion sections, and

the second base material has a plurality of second wirings electrically connected to the plurality of first adhesion sections.

14. The sensor device according to claim 1, wherein

the first base material includes a plurality of magnetoresistive effect elements two-dimensionally arranged, and

the second base material includes a plurality of magnetic layers each disposed at a position facing each of the magnetoresistance effect elements.

15. A display apparatus comprising:

a display panel having a display surface; and

a sensor device disposed on a side, opposite to the display surface, of the display panel,

wherein the sensor device includes

a first base material and a second base material disposed apart to face each other,

a plurality of first adhesion sections that are two-dimensionally arranged in a gap between the first base material and the second base material and have elasticity, and

a mitigation section configured to mitigate an increase in contact area of each of the first adhesion sections to one of the first base material and the second base material, the contact area increasing as the gap narrows.

16. An input apparatus comprising:

a substrate having an operation surface; and

a sensor device disposed on a side, which is opposite to the operation surface, of the substrate,

wherein the sensor device includes

a first base material and a second base material disposed apart to face each other,

a plurality of first adhesion sections that are two-dimensionally arranged in a gap between the first base material and the second base material and have elasticity, and

a mitigation section configured to mitigate an increase in contact area of each of the first adhesion sections to one of the first base material and the second base material, the contact area increasing as the gap narrows.

17. A method of manufacturing a sensor device, the method comprising:

increasing viscosity of each of a plurality of first adhesion sections, after printing, on a surface of a first base material, the first adhesion sections that are two-dimensionally arranged;

providing a mitigation section on a surface of the first base material or a second base material, the mitigation section being configured to mitigate an increase in contact area of each of the first adhesion sections to one of the first base material and the second base material, the contact area increasing as a gap between the first base material and the second base material narrows, when the first base material and the second base material are adhered to each other, with each of the first adhesion sections interposed therebetween; and

adhering the first base material and the second base material to each other, with each of the first adhesion sections interposed therebetween.