Touch panel

• US 9,817,525 B2
• Filed: 12/26/2013
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corporation (Novatek Microelectronics Corp Limited)
• Original Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corporation (Novatek Microelectronics Corp Limited)
• Inventors: Lu, Shih-Jung, Tang, Wing-Kai
• Primary Examiner(s): Lopez, Jose Soto
• Application Number:
  US14/140,559
• Publication Number:
  US 20150015534A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,419 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0443 using a single layer of sensing electrodes

Abstract

The touch panel includes a plurality of touch pads arranged in an array on the touch panel. Each of the touch pads are arranged in N columns and M rows, the touch pad in the i^th column and in the j^th row is coupled to the touch pad in the (i−1)^th column and in the (j−1)^th row and the touch pad in the (i+1)^th column and in the (j+1)^th row, or the touch pad in the i^th column and in the j^th row is coupled to the touch pad in the (i+1)^th column and in the (j−1)^th row and the touch pad in the (i−1)^th column and in the (j+1)^th row.

Claims

1. A touch panel, comprising:

a plurality of touch pads arranged in an array, the touch pads are arranged in N columns and M rows, the touch pad in the i^th column and in the j^th row is connected to the touch pad in the (i−

1)^th column and in the (j−

1)^th row and the touch pad in the (i+1)^th column and in the (j+1)^th row in a first direction,

or the touch pad in the i^th column and in the j^th row is connected to the touch pad in the (i+1)^th column and in the (j−

1)^th row and the touch pad in the (i−

1)^th column and in the (j+1)^th row in a second direction, N and M are positive integers, and i and j are positive integers greater than 1 and respectively smaller than (N−

1) and (M−

1),

wherein at least a first touch pad and a second touchpad in a boundary column are not adjacent to an end-most touchpad of the touchpads in the boundary column, wherein the boundary column is one of the first and last columns and the first and second touch pads are connected by a first conductor line and a second conductor line respectively so as to share a first signal transmission channel, and there is at least a third touch pad which is not connected by any of the first and second conductor lines and disposed on the boundary column and between the first and second touch pads, wherein the third touch pad is further connected to a third conductor line which is extended cross the second conductor line.

2. The touch panel as recited in claim 1, wherein the touch pad in the i^th column and in the j^th row is physically isolated from the touch pad in the i^th column and in the (j−

1)^th row, the touch pad in the column and in the (j+1)^th row, the touch pad in the (i+1)^th column and in the j^th row, and the touch pad in the (i−

1)^th column and in the j^th row.

3. The touch panel as recited in claim 1, wherein each of the touch pads is shaped as a polygon.

4. The touch panel as recited in claim 1, wherein there is at least a fourth touch pad which is not connected by any of the first and second and third conductor lines, and disposed on the boundary column such that the second touch pad is between the third touch pad and the fourth touch pad, wherein the fourth touch pad is further connected to a fourth conductor line which is conducted to the third conductor line such that the third and fourth touch pads share a second signal transmission channel.

5. The touch panel as recited in claim 4, wherein there is at least a fifth touch pad which is not connected by the first and second and third and fourth conductor lines, and disposed on the boundary column and between the second touch pad and the fourth touch pad, wherein the fifth touch pad is further connected to a fifth conductor line which is extended cross the fourth conductor line.

6. The touch panel as recited in claim 5, wherein the first touch pad, the third touch pad, the second touch pad, the fifth touch pad and the fourth touch pad are disposed in an order along an extending direction of the boundary column, wherein there is further a sixth touch pad which is not connected by any of the first and second and third and fourth and fifth conductor lines, and disposed on the boundary column and between the first touch pad and the third touch pad.

7. The touch panel as recited in claim 1, there is at least a fourth touch pad which is not connected by any of the first and second conductor lines and disposed on the boundary column, wherein the fourth touch pad is further connected to a fourth conductor line which is extended cross the second conductor line.