Touch panel, and touch-type input apparatus and control method therefor

• US 9,430,099 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2015
• Issued: 08/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Ando, Masamichi, Tajitsu, Yoshiro, Yoshida, Mitsunobu
• Primary Examiner(s): Dharia, Prabodh M
• Application Number:
  US14/887,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20160041694A1
• Time in Patent Office: 315 Days
• Field of Search: 345156-184, 296/24, 296/34, 296/37.8, 381/152, 381/190, 178 1801- 1806, 178/19.07
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04142 the force sensing means being located peripherally, e.g. disposed at the corners or at the side of a touch sensing plate
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0433 in which the acoustic waves are either generated by a movable member and propagated within a surface layer or propagated within a surface layer and captured by a movable member
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0404 Matrix technologies
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092

Abstract

A touch panel having a piezoelectric sheet with a first region and a second region, and a surface protection film bonded to the second region of the piezoelectric sheet with a non-curable adhesive. The non-curable adhesive has a larger elasticity than a material that bonds the first region of the piezoelectric sheet to the surface protection film.

Claims

1. A touch panel comprising:

a piezoelectric sheet having a first region and a second region; and

a surface protection film bonded to the second region of the piezoelectric sheet with a non-curable adhesive,

wherein the non-curable adhesive has a larger elasticity than a material that bonds the first region of the piezoelectric sheet to the surface protection film.

2. The touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the first region of the piezoelectric sheet is bonded to the surface protection film with a curable adhesive.

3. The touch panel according to claim 2, wherein the first region extends in a diagonal direction of the piezoelectric sheet.

4. The touch panel according to claim 3, wherein the diagonal direction is not coincident with a stretching axial direction of the piezoelectric sheet.

5. The touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the first region extends in a diagonal direction of the piezoelectric sheet.

6. The touch panel according to claim 5, wherein the diagonal direction is not coincident with a stretching axial direction of the piezoelectric sheet.

7. The touch panel according to claim 2, wherein the non-curable adhesive and curable adhesive are transparent.

8. The touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the surface protection film is a glass plate.

9. The touch panel according to claim 1, further comprising:

a base body; and

a spacer fixing the base body to the surface protection film.

10. The touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the piezoelectric sheet is poly-L-lactic acid.

11. The touch panel according to claim 10, wherein the piezoelectric sheet has a stretching axis oriented in a predetermined direction and has first and second opposed surfaces, the touch panel further comprising:

a plurality of first electrodes distributed discretely in plural positions on the first surface of said piezoelectric sheet; and

a plurality of second electrodes distributed discretely in plural positions on the second surface of said piezoelectric sheet and respectively opposing the plurality of first electrodes so as to form a plurality of sets of opposed electrodes.

12. The touch panel according to claim 11, wherein among said plurality of first and second electrodes, electrodes that are situated in an outer circumferential part of said piezoelectric sheet are electrodes selected from the group consisting of aluminum, copper, gold and nickel.