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Granted Patent B2
US 11,720,211 · App. 17/776,156 · Granted Aug 8, 2023

Touch sensor

Inventors: Yuji Nonami (Osaka, JP); Hirofumi Yamada (Osaka, JP); Tetsuya Minamide (Osaka, JP); Shigeyuki Fujii (Okayama, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
G06F3/044
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Patent No.
US 11,720,211
App. No.
17/776,156
Granted
Aug 8, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A touch sensor includes a substrate with a first surface, and a plurality of first electrodes on the first surface of the substrate in a view area. The first surface of the substrate includes a plurality of bottomed grooves extending linearly. Each first electrode includes a plurality of fine lines including a conductive material buried in one of the grooves. Each fine line includes a bottomed recess recessed from the first surface toward the bottom surface of each groove.

Claims (17)

1. A touch sensor with a view area, the touch sensor comprising:

a substrate with a first surface; and

a plurality of first electrodes on the first surface of the substrate in the view area, wherein:

the first surface of the substrate includes a plurality of bottomed grooves extending linearly,

each of the plurality of first electrodes includes a plurality of fine lines,

each of the plurality of fine lines includes a conductive material buried in one of the plurality of grooves,

at least one of the plurality of fine lines includes a recess recessed from the first surface toward a bottom surface of each of the plurality of grooves,

each of bottom and side surfaces of the recess are curved, an entirety of which forms a concave shape, and

each of the side surfaces of the recess is entirely curved from an opening edge of the recess to a connection point to the bottom surface so as to form a concave shape.

2. The touch sensor of claim 1 , wherein

a distance along a plane direction of the substrate between each of side surfaces of the groove and a corresponding one of the side surfaces of the recess becomes gradually greater in a thickness direction of the substrate from the opening edge of the recess toward the bottom surface of the recess.

3. The touch sensor of claim 1 , wherein

the bottom surface of the recess has a smaller radius of curvature than the side surface of the recess.

4. The touch sensor of claim 1 , wherein

an opening width of the recess orthogonal to an extending direction thereof is larger than a size corresponding to one-fourth of a width of the plurality of grooves orthogonal to an extending direction thereof.

5. The touch sensor of claim 1 , wherein

a blackened layer serves as an overlying layer of at least the recess.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 16, 2022
From: NONAMI, YUJI; YAMADA, HIROFUMI; MINAMIDE, TETSUYA; FUJII, SHIGEYUKI
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 060813/0131 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-234711 · Dec 25, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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