Touch sensor
An improved touch sensor comprising a difference in optical characteristics between an electrode region where the transparent electrode is formed and an inter-electrode region where the transparent electrode is not formed, resulting in the prevention of a transparent electrode from being visible to a user. The improved touch sensor further results in the prevention of a reduction in light transmittance caused by the transparent electrode and the prevention a reduction in optical quality due to a moiré phenomenon.
1. A touch sensor comprising:
a first sensing electrode unit formed on a substrate in a first direction; and
a second sensing electrode unit formed on the substrate in a second direction crossing the first direction,
wherein,
a plurality of fine etching patterns are formed in boundary portions of unit transparent electrodes included in the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit,
the plurality of fine etching patterns formed in the boundary portions of the unit transparent electrodes have a shape in which, for a hexagon having two opposite sides having a first length and four sides other than the two sides having a second length greater than the first length, a portion of a curved line connecting end points of the four sides is removed, and adjacent unit transparent electrodes are electrically connected to one another.
2. The touch sensor of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of fine etching patterns formed in the boundary portions of the unit transparent electrodes have a shape in which a middle portion of the curved line connecting the end points of the four sides having the second length is removed.
3. The touch sensor of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of fine etching patterns formed in the boundary portions of the unit transparent electrodes have a shape in which both ends other than a middle portion of the curved line connecting the end points of the four sides having the second length and the two sides having the first length are removed.
4. The touch sensor of claim 1 , further comprising an inter-electrode dummy formed between the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit and electrically insulated from the unit transparent electrodes, the inter-electrode dummy having the same shape as the unit transparent electrodes.
5. The touch sensor of claim 4 , wherein, by inserting a plurality of dummy patterns having the same spatial frequency as the fine etching patterns into a space between the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit to dispose the same high-frequency component on a front surface of the touch sensor, a touch sensor pattern is not visible due to the same high-frequency component disposed on the front surface of the touch sensor.
6. The touch sensor of claim 1 , wherein the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit have transmittance increased by the plurality of fine etching patterns formed in the boundary portions of the unit transparent electrodes.
7. The touch sensor of claim 1 , wherein the unit transparent electrodes are formed by the plurality of fine etching patterns, the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit are distinguished by being the same shape as that of the fine etching patterns included in each of the unit transparent electrodes, and a spatial high-frequency component is disposed on a front surface of the touch sensor.
8. A touch sensor comprising:
first sensing electrode units formed in a first direction and connected to one another;
second sensing electrode units formed in a second direction crossing the first direction and separated from one another; and
a bridge electrode unit configured to connect two adjacent second sensing electrode units to each other with a first sensing electrode unit interposed therebetween,
wherein,
a plurality of fine etching patterns are formed in boundary portions of unit transparent electrodes included in the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit,
the plurality of fine etching patterns formed in the boundary portions of the unit transparent electrodes have a shape in which, for a hexagon having two opposite sides having a first length and four sides other than the two sides having a second length greater than the first length, a portion of a curved line connecting end points of the four sides is removed, and adjacent unit transparent electrodes are electrically connected to one another.
9. The touch sensor of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of fine etching patterns formed in the boundary portions of the unit transparent electrodes have a shape in which a middle portion of the curved line connecting the end points of the four sides having the second length is removed.
10. The touch sensor of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of fine etching patterns formed in the boundary portions of the unit transparent electrodes have a shape in which both ends other than a middle portion of the curved line connecting the end points of the four sides having the second length and the two sides having the first length are removed.
11. The touch sensor of claim 8 , further comprising an inter-electrode dummy formed between the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit and electrically insulated from the unit transparent electrodes, the inter-electrode dummy having the same shape as the unit transparent electrodes.
12. The touch sensor of claim 11 , wherein, by inserting a plurality of dummy patterns having the same spatial frequency as the fine etching patterns into a space between the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit to dispose the same high-frequency component on a front surface of the touch sensor, a touch sensor pattern is not visible due to the same high-frequency component disposed on the front surface of the touch sensor.
13. The touch sensor of claim 8 , wherein the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit have transmittance increased by the plurality of fine etching patterns formed in the boundary portions of the unit transparent electrodes.
14. The touch sensor of claim 8 , wherein the unit transparent electrodes are formed by the plurality of fine etching patterns, the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit are distinguished by being the same shape as that of the fine etching patterns included in each of the unit transparent electrodes, and a spatial high-frequency component is disposed on a front surface of the touch sensor.
15. A touch sensor comprising:
first sensing electrode units formed on a substrate in a first direction and connected to one another;
an insulating layer formed on the substrate where the first sensing electrode units are formed; and
second sensing electrode units formed on the insulating layer in a second direction crossing the first direction and connected to one another,
wherein,
a plurality of fine etching patterns are formed in boundary portions of unit transparent electrodes included in the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit,
the plurality of fine etching patterns formed in the boundary portions of the unit transparent electrodes have a shape in which, for a hexagon having two opposite sides having a first length and four sides other than the two sides having a second length greater than the first length, a portion of a curved line connecting end points of the four sides is removed, and adjacent unit transparent electrodes are electrically connected to one another.
16. The touch sensor of claim 15 , wherein the plurality of fine etching patterns formed in the boundary portions of the unit transparent electrodes have a shape in which a middle portion of the curved line connecting the end points of the four sides having the second length is removed.
17. The touch sensor of claim 15 , wherein the plurality of fine etching patterns formed in the boundary portions of the unit transparent electrodes have a shape in which both ends other than a middle portion of the curved line connecting the end points of the four sides having the second length and the two sides having the first length are removed.
18. The touch sensor of claim 15 , further comprising an inter-electrode dummy formed between the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit and electrically insulated from the unit transparent electrodes, the inter-electrode dummy having the same shape as the unit transparent electrodes.
19. The touch sensor of claim 18 , wherein, by inserting a plurality of dummy patterns having the same spatial frequency as the fine etching patterns into a space between the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit to dispose the same high-frequency component on a front surface of the touch sensor, a touch sensor pattern is not visible due to the same high-frequency component disposed on the front surface of the touch sensor.
20. The touch sensor of claim 15 , wherein the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit have transmittance increased by the plurality of fine etching patterns formed in the boundary portions of the unit transparent electrodes.
21. The touch sensor of claim 15 , wherein the unit transparent electrodes are formed by the plurality of fine etching patterns, the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit are distinguished by being the same shape as that of the fine etching patterns included in each of the unit transparent electrodes, and a spatial high-frequency component is disposed on a front surface of the touch sensor.