Coordinate input device for preventing delamination of transfer portion

• US 6,697,046 B2
• Filed: 06/26/2001
• Issued: 02/24/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sasagawa, Hideto, Watanabe, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chow, Dennis-Doon
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anyaso, Uchendu O.
• Application Number:
  US09/891,748
• Publication Number:
  US 20020015023A1
• Time in Patent Office: 973 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173, 345/174, 345/157, 178/18.03, 178/18.05, 341/34, 250/214.R
• US Class Current: 345/157
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04164 Connections between sensors and controllers, e.g. routing lines between electrodes and connection pads
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/045 using resistive elements, e.g. a single continuous surface or two parallel surfaces put in contact

Abstract

A coordinate input device in which a first electrode plate having a resistor layer and a pair of electrodes in contact with the resistor layer formed successively on a substrate along two opposing sides of a film substrate with the top end of a wiring pattern led out of the electrode to the vicinity of other sides being formed as a transfer forming portion, and a second electrode plate having a resistor layer, a pair of electrodes and wiring patterns formed successively on a substrate, are joined with the respective resistor layers opposed to each other and the electrodes being arranged at a right angle with each other, wherein bridge portions are formed near the transfer portions of the first electrode plate, whereby the stress exerting on the transfer portion caused by expansion or shrinkage of the coordinate input device due to the change of the circumstantial temperature is reduced to prevent delamination of transfer portion and improve the reliability.

Claims

1. A coordinate input device comprising:

a first electrode plate having a resistor layer, a pair of electrodes disposed along opposing two sides of a substrate, a wiring pattern led out of the electrodes to a vicinity of other side, and a transfer portion disposed to each of top ends of the wiring pattern; and

a second electrode plate having a resistor layer, a pair of electrodes and a wiring pattern,

the first and second electrode plates joined with surfaces of the resistor layers of each of the first and second electrode plates being opposed to each other and the electrodes of the first and second electrode plates being arranged at a right angle to each other,

wherein a bridge portion, through which the wiring pattern of the first electrode plate passes, is disposed near the transfer portion of the first electrode plate, and

wherein the bridge portion is partially separated as an independent structure from another portion of the first electrode plate by disposing a recess near the transfer portion of the first electrode plate.

2. A coordinate input device according to claim 1, wherein the first electrode plate has a concave portion formed along one side of the substrate and convex portions defined with the concave portion on both sides thereof and transfer portions are disposed on the convex portions.

3. A coordinate input device comprising:

a first electrode plate having a resistor layer, a pair of electrodes disposed along opposing two sides of a substrate, a wiring pattern led out of the electrodes to a vicinity of other side, and a transfer portion disposed to each of top ends of the wiring pattern; and

a second electrode plate having a resistor layer, a pair of electrodes and a wiring pattern,

the first and second electrode plates joined with surfaces of the resistor layers of each of the first and second electrode plates being opposed to each other and the electrodes of the first and second electrode plates being arranged at a right angle to each other,

wherein a bridge portion, through which the wiring pattern of the first electrode plate passes, is disposed near the transfer portion of the first electrode plate, and

wherein the first electrode plate has a concave portion formed along one side of the substrate and convex portions defined with the concave portion on both sides thereof and transfer portions are disposed on the convex portions.