Electrochromic touchscreen

• US 8,907,918 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2010
• Issued: 12/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: YD Ynvisible, SA (Ynvisible Interactive, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: YD Ynvisible, SA (Ynvisible Interactive, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ferreira, Tiago Jose Monteiro Baptista Cabral, Baptista, Carlos Alberto Pinheiro, da Silva Henriques, Ines Domingues
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H
• Application Number:
  US13/387,135
• Publication Number:
  US 20120242614A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,594 Days
• Field of Search: 345/55, 345/156, 345173-176, 178 1805- 1807, 359/275, 252/500
• US Class Current: 345/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04103 Manufacturing, i.e. details related to manufacturing processes specially suited for touch sensitive devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means

Abstract

The present invention relates to a touchscreen, comprising an electronic visualization structure made of a deposition of layers of: electrically conductive material; on which is deposited electrochromic material; on which is deposited electrolyte material; on which is deposited electrochemically active material, on which is deposited electrically conductive material, wherein the electronic visualization structure is simultaneously an electronic touch detection structure, which touch detection depends on the continuous application of a modulated electrical stimuli; and operates based on variations in the electric capacity of the electronic structure.

Claims

1. A touchscreen, comprising an electronic visualization structure comprising:

a first layer of electrically conductive material deposited on

second layer of electrochromic material deposited on

a third layer of electrolyte material deposited on

a fourth layer of electrochemically active material deposited on

a fifth layer of electrically conductive material;

a continuous source of modulated electrical stimuli; and

a sensor for sensing variations in the electric capacity of the electronic structure.

2. The touchscreen according to claim 1, wherein the electrochemically active material is electrochromic.

3. The touchscreen according to claim 1, wherein the electrically conductive material is deposited on a single continuous area.

4. The touchscreen according to claim 1, wherein the electrically conductive material is deposited on several areas, without direct continuity in between.

5. The touchscreen according to claim 1, wherein the electronic visualization structure is arrayed in a matrix in which each element of the matrix is electrically insulated from the other elements of the matrix.

6. The touchscreen, according to claim 1, comprising static patterns only, which alternate between at least two optical states.

7. The touchscreen according to claim 1, comprising several dynamic patterns, which alternate between at least two optical states.

8. The touchscreen according to claim 1, wherein the touch detection operates by measuring of signal frequency.

9. The touchscreen according to claim 1, wherein the touch detection operates by measuring of signal amplitude.

10. The touchscreen according to claim 1, wherein the touch detection operates by measuring of electric charge time.

11. The touchscreen according to claim 1, wherein the sensor comprises a modified Wheatstone bridge with a variable capacitor.