Coordinate data input device

• US 5,926,171 A
• Filed: 04/29/1997
• Issued: 07/20/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yamada, Naoki, Hagiya, Ryuichi, Matsufusa, Hideto
• Primary Examiner(s): Shankar, Vijay
• Application Number:
  US08/845,818
• Time in Patent Office: 812 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173, 345/174, 345/179, 178/18.01, 178/18.03, 178/18.05, 178/18.06, 178/19.03
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/0289 having a matrix lay-out, i.e. having selectively interconnectable sets of X-conductors and Y-conductors in different planes
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/096 Vertically aligned vias, holes or stacked vias
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10151 Sensor
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2203/0455 PTH for surface mount device [SMD], e.g. wherein solder flows through the PTH during mounting
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/321 by conductive adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/361 Assembling flexible printed circuits with other printed circuits

Abstract

A coordinate data input device comprises: a sensing board fabricated by forming a plurality of parallel first electrodes on the front surface of a film and forming a plurality of parallel second electrodes perpendicularly to the first electrodes on the back surface of the film, and capable of providing a current corresponding to an electrostatic capacitance between the respective groups of the first and the second electrodes; a resist layer of a thickness equal to that of the first electrodes, formed in regions in the front surface of the film in which the first electrodes are not formed; and a protective sheet adhesively bonded to the respective surfaces of the filling layer and the first electrodes.

Claims

1. A coordinate data input device comprising:

a sensing board fabricated by forming a plurality of parallel first electrodes on the front surface of a film and forming a plurality of parallel second electrodes perpendicularly to the first electrodes on the back surface of the film, and capable of providing a current corresponding to an electrostatic capacitance between the respective groups of the first and the second electrodes;

a filling layer comprising a resist material and being of a thickness equal to that of the first electrodes, the filling layer being printed in recesses defined by adjacent first electrodes and the front surface of the film extending between the first electrodes, the filling layer completely filling the recesses such that the filled recesses are substantially free of voids and such that front surfaces of the first electrodes and the filling layer are substantially flush with each other;

a protective sheet to be touched with a position indicator; and

an adhesive layer adhering the protective sheet to the front surfaces of the first electrodes and the filling layer, whereby the protective sheet is bonded to these surfaces substantially without gaps.

2. A coordinate data input device comprising:

a sensing board fabricated by forming a plurality of parallel first electrodes on the front surface of a film and forming a plurality of parallel second electrodes perpendicularly to the first electrodes on the back surface of the film, and capable of providing a current corresponding to an electrostatic capacitance between the respective groups of the first and the second electrodes;

a protective sheet to be touched with a position indicator adhesively bonded to the front surface of the sensing board; and

an adhesive layer in which an adhesive gel of low viscosity fills recesses defined by adjacent first electrodes and the front surface of the film extending between the first electrodes in such way as to leave the recesses substantially free of voids, wherein the adhesive gel is spread over the back surface of the protective sheet before bonding the protective sheet to the sensing board.

3. A coordinate data input device according to claim 2, wherein the layer of the adhesive gel is formed by spreading the adhesive gel over the back surface of the protective sheet before bonding the protective sheet to the sensing board.