Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Visteon Japan, Ltd.

Kazuto Yamauchi

Kouichi Yamanoue

Sadahiko Tanaka

Yasunori Murayama

Keitaro Takizawa

Arihiro Isomura

Kenji Kishiue

A panel device includes a panel section, a first conductive layer that is provided in a side of one surface of the panel section, an insulating layer that is stacked on the first conductive layer and a second conductive layer that is stacked on the insulating layer. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are formed by coating an electrically conductive solvent-type substance. The insulating layer is formed by coating an insulating curing-acceleration-type substance.

Panel device

An EL emitting touch switch includes first electrodes, a single second electrode facing the first electrodes, and EL layers each sandwiched between a corresponding one of the first electrodes and the second electrode. A light emission driver applies a driving voltage between the first and second electrodes to cause the EL layers to emit light. A timing signal generator generates a timing signal to control the light emission driver such that the application of the driving voltage is stopped at predetermined intervals. Touch decision units are provided for each first electrode. Each touch decision unit includes a feedback circuit for supplying current to the corresponding first electrode such that the potentials of the first and second electrodes become equal to each other, and detects contact of a human body with the corresponding first electrode based on operation of the feedback circuit while the application of the driving voltage is stopped.

EL emitting touch switch

An electrostatic capacitive touch sensor device includes sensing electrode provided at a plurality of positions, a high-frequency signal source that applies a high-frequency signal to the sensing electrode through a predetermined impedance element, a wiring portion that connects the sensing electrode and the impedance element, a shield portion provided to embrace the sensing electrodes and the connecting pattern, and a shield signal source that applies a shield signal to the shield portion and has the same phase and amplitude as the high-frequency signal source.

Electrostatic capacitive touch sensor device

A detection circuitincludes: an input unit; two contact electrodes A and B which are connected to the input unit; phase inversion unitconnected to the contact electrode A; one amplification unitarranged in each contact unit; and detection unitsA andB which detect as an electric change amount, an amplitude change of an input signal caused by a capacitance change in each of the contact electrodes A and B. The detection circuitcauses the two electrodes to input signals having phases shifted by a half period from each other by using the phase inversion unit. In the presence of contact, the amplitude of the input pulses is amplified by the one amplification unit. The respective detection unitsA andB detect signals of respective electrodes from the one amplified signal and output them to output unitsA andB, respectively.

Capacitance change detection circuit, touch panel and determination method

A touch sensor deviceincludes a touch sensor; an average value calculating meansfor calculating the average value of output voltages sent out from an output sectionof the touch sensor; a threshold value calculating meansfor calculating a threshold value based on the average value; and a comparing/determining meansfor comparing the output voltage with the threshold value and, when determining that the output voltage exceeds the threshold value, outputting a determination signal.

Touch sensor device, control method, touch panel device and program

A touch sensor device comprises: a touch sensorfor sending out an output voltage signal Srepresenting the presence or absence of an operation; an operation presence/absence determination unitwhich, when the output voltage signal has a value equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value, determines that the operation has occurred; a stability determination unitfor detecting whether a differential signal Srepresenting a differential value obtained by differentiating the output voltage signal is limited within a predetermined range or not; and a count-up timerwhich, when a period during which the differential signal is limited within the predetermined range becomes a predetermined time period or longer on the premise that the output voltage signal has the value equal to or more than the predetermined threshold value, sends out an ON determination signal Sand allows an external deviceto operate.

Touch sensor device and touch sensor program

A touch switch structure is provided that can be preferably used for an automotive instrument panel and can securely prevent misjudgments and incorrect detections with respect to operations on the switch. For that purpose, the touch switch structure comprises a base materialmade of a nonconductive material; a shield electrode layermade of a conductive material and formed on one surface of the base material; a touch detection electrodeformed on one surface of the base materialat the portion where the shield electrode layeris not formed; and an insulation layermade of a nonconductive material and formed at least between the shield electrode layerand a connection patternof the touch detection electrode

Touch switch structure

A structured touch switch, which is of an electrostatic capacitance, type is provided. The structured touch switch comprises a substrate made of a material having a non-conductive characteristic, a conductive member made of a material having a conductive characteristic and formed integrally with the substrate so that a portion of the conductive characteristic member appears at a surface of the substrate and a detection electrode positioned at a backside of the substrate and in opposed relation to the conductive member in a state where a space is defined with respect to the conductive member.

Structured touch switch

A touch switch is composed of an EL light emitting layer configured by stacking a fluorescent layer and an insulation layer between first electrodes and a second electrode, a judgment unit for making a judgment on touch manipulation with the first electrode by an operator and an EL driving unit for driving the EL light emitting layer for light emitting, with each of a plurality of first electrodes, each of plurality of fluorescent layers and each of plurality of insulation layers being provided as a set and the second electrode being provided as a single electrode with respect to the plurality of first electrodes, wherein the judgment unit makes a judgment on which of the plurality of first electrodes has been touched by an operator on the basis of a high-frequency component inputted from the second electrode through the first electrode each time the touch switch is touched by an operator.

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Okazaki, Japan

Kazuto Yamauchi