Signal input sheet having a conductive shield layer

• US 4,636,582 A
• Filed: 08/29/1984
• Issued: 01/13/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toppan Moore Company Limited (TOPPAN Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Toppan Moore Company Limited (TOPPAN Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sano, Shigeaki, Tanaka, Eiichi, Moriwaki, Masafumi
• Primary Examiner(s): SCHREYER, STAFFORD
• Application Number:
  US06/645,441
• Time in Patent Office: 867 Days
• Field of Search: 178/18, 178/19, 178/20, 340/706, 340/709, 340/711
• US Class Current: 178/18.08
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04107 Shielding in digitiser, i.e. guard or shielding arrangements, mostly for capacitive touchscreens, e.g. driven shields, driven grounds
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/045 using resistive elements, e.g. a single continuous surface or two parallel surfaces put in contact
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

The present invention discloses a sheet-like input device wherein a conductive layer and a resistance layer are arranged in an isolated state up and down, one layer of the conductive layer and the resistance layer which is at least positioned on the upper layer side is formed from a flexible sheet layer, and writing pressure points of the conductive layer and the resistance layer contact according to writing pressure from a sheet surface whereby a variable electric circuit is formed to obtain a position signal, a signal input sheet characterized in that a conductive shield layer is provided on the upper surface of the layer positioned on the upper layer side through an insulating layer, the shield layer being connected to an earth, and a method for producing the same.

Claims

1. In a sheet-like input device wherein a conductive layer and a resistance layer are arranged in an isolated state up and down, one layer of said conductive layer and said resistance layer which is at least positioned as an upper layer side is formed from a flexible sheet layer, and writing pressure points of the conductive layer and resistance layer contact according to writing pressure from a sheet surface whereby a variable electric circuit is formed to obtain a position signal, a signal input sheet characterized in that a conductive shield layer is provided on the upper surface of said layer positioned as an upper layer side through an insulating layer, said shield layer being connected to an earth.

2. In a sheet-like input device wherein a conductive layer is provided on the backside of a flexible sheet by conductive ink, a predetermined surface of said conductive layer comprises an electric point contact surface, said electric point contact surface comprising a point contact portion and a non-contact portion, a conductive layer sheet provided with an insulating ink including a material adhered to the conductive layer is provided on the conductive layer of said non-conductive portion, a resistance layer is provided under said conductive layer sheet, and writing pressure points of the conductive layer and resistance layer contact according to writing presure from the conductive layer sheet surface whereby a variable electric circuit is formed to obtain a position signal, a single input sheet according to claim 1 characterized in that a conductive shield layer is disposed on said layer positioned as an upper layer side through an insulating layer, said shield layer being connected to an earth.

3. In a signal input sheet characterized in that a conductive shield layer is provided as an upper surface of a layer positioned on a conductive layer separated by an insulating layer, a method for producing a flexible signal input sheet in which said conductive layer, insulating material and shield layer are prepared by coating conductive ink, insulating ink and conductive ink, respectively.