Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.

Nissha Co., Ltd.

Shuzo Okumura

Ryomei Omote

Takao Hashimoto

Junichi Shibata

Yuji Watazu

Yuki Matsui

Tatsuo Ishibashi

Takahiro Suzuki

Keisuke Ozaki

Yoshitaka Yamaoka

Yoshihiro Sakata

Eiji Kakutani

Katsumi Tokuno

Yoshiko Suetomi

Asako Sakashita

Hirotaka Shigeno

Kazuomi Teratani

Takaaki Terawaki

Yoshihiro Kai

Jun Shimizu

Yuichiro Takai

Eiji Nakagawa

Yuko Endo

Masahiro Nishida

Keishiro Murata

Seiko Hirai

Takayuki Takagi

Yosuke Matsukawa

Hiromitsu Muko

Yohko Imai

Kanji Suyama

Tomohiro Matsuzaki

Ryohei Nagase

Juichi Murata

Takahiro Okabe

Inyeol Moon

Takafumi Minami

An antenna-equipped touch panel is one that is laminated on a display device in order to be used. The antenna-equipped touch panel includes an antenna pattern including an antenna element and a first wire of an antenna, the first wire being electrically connected to the antenna element; and a detection pattern including electrodes and second wires of the touch panel, the second wires being electrically connected to the electrodes. In plan perspective view, a shortest distance between the antenna pattern and the detection pattern is greater than or equal to 1.0 mm and less than or equal to 20.0 mm.

Antenna-equipped touch panel having an opening between antenna pattern and detection pattern

A piezoelectric sensor in which position detection and load detection can be achieved. The piezoelectric sensor includes a piezoelectric layer interposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode. In the piezoelectric sensor, at least one of the upper electrode and the lower electrode includes a plurality of electrodes patterns.

Piezoelectric sensor and pressure detection apparatus

A touch panel equipped with both a capacitive sensor and a piezoelectric sensor, wherein the touch panel solves the problems of increased panel thickness, changes in the optical properties, and increased manufacturing costs. This touch panel is provided with force measurement using a piezoelectric body and capacitive point detection. The force measurement uses a pair of electrodes arranged with the piezoelectric body sandwiched therebetween. The point detection uses one electrode and another electrode. At least one top electrode is disposed on the side of the top surface of the piezoelectric body, and at least one bottom electrode is disposed on the side of the bottom surface of the piezoelectric body. One electrode among the pair of electrodes used in force measurement is a bottom electrode, and at least one electrode among the two electrodes used in point detection is a top electrode.

Touch panel with pressing-force measuring performance

A piezoelectric sensor that can perform position detection and load detection. The touch panel having press detection function can detect the pressing load inputted to the pressing surface. An upper electrode, an upper insert member, an intermediate electrode, a lower insert member, and a lower electrode are arranged away from the pressing surface in this order. Among the upper electrode, the intermediate electrode, and the lower electrode, capacitance detection electrodes Cx, Cy for detecting the pressing position, and detection electrodes S for measuring the electric charge according to the pressure when the operation is inputted to the touch panelhaving press detection function are included. One of the upper insert member and the lower insert member is composed of an insulating body, and the other is composed of a piezoelectric body.

Touch panel having press detection function

A flexible touch panel comprises a base material sheet; a first axis detection electrode, which is provided on the base material sheet and is patterned concerning a first axis; an insulative layer, which is provided on the first axis detection electrode; a second axis detection electrode, which is provided on the insulative layer and is patterned concerning a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis; a first routing circuit, which electrically connects the first axis detection electrode to an external part; and a second routing circuit, which electrically connects the second axis detection electrode to an external part.

Flexible touch panel

A touch sensor including a plurality of first electrode films and a plurality of second electrode films which are formed on a surface of a substrate and are arranged in different directions from each other; and a manufacturing method for the same. The manufacturing method includes: a first transfer step, which uses a transfer ribbon made by at least an insulating layer and an electrode-imparting layer which are entirely sequentially stacked as a transfer layer upon an elongated release film, attaches to a substrate only a portion of the transfer layer to which heat and pressure have been applied, and by stripping the release film, transfers the transfer layer in at least the shape of a first electrode film; and a second transfer step including attaching only the portion of the transfer layer to which the heat and the pressure had been applied and stripping the release film.

Touch sensor and manufacturing method for the same, as well as transfer ribbon for touch sensor manufacturing

A method of manufacturing a narrow frame touch input sheet having very good anticorrosion properties and suitable for a narrow frame capacitance type touch sensor having a double-layer transparent conductive film pattern. The method uses an electrical conductivity sheet obtained by sequentially forming transparent and light blocking conductive films, and first resist layers, on both sides of a transparent base sheet, exposing and developing the resist layers on both sides simultaneously, etching the transparent and light blocking films simultaneously, removing the resist layers, laminating second resist layers with anticorrosion agent on the revealed light blocking films, etching the light blocking conductive films in center windows and terminal portions to reveal the transparent films, and side etching revealed end faces of the light blocking films at center window and terminal portion boundaries to create visor structured second resist layers that are heat softened as an anticorrosion layer on the revealed faces.

Narrow frame touch input sheet with good anticorrosion property and manufacturing method thereof

A method of manufacturing a narrow frame touch input sheet having very good anticorrosion properties and suitable for a narrow frame capacitance type touch sensor having a double-layer transparent conductive film pattern. The method uses an electrical conductivity sheet obtained by sequentially forming transparent and light blocking conductive films, and first resist layers, on both sides of a transparent base sheet, exposing and developing the resist layers on both sides simultaneously, etching the transparent and light blocking films simultaneously, removing the resist layers, laminating second resist layers with anticorrosion agent on the revealed light blocking films, etching the light blocking films in center windows and terminal portions to reveal the transparent films, and side etching revealed end faces of the light blocking films at center window and terminal portion boundaries to create visor structured second resist layers that are heat softened as an anticorrosion layer on the revealed faces.

A transparent thin plate including a transparent substrate in a sheet form, a mesh layer formed on a surface of the transparent substrate and made of an opaque material having a structure wherein an outline of meshes is made of bands that are very thin and have a substantially equal width, and having a light transmittance of 50% or more. The transparent thin plate also includes a colored layer that is arranged in a state in which the colored layer is laminated in a partial area of the mesh layer and on the surface of the mesh layer, and has a color different from that of the opaque material constituting the mesh layer.

Transparent thin plate

A portable device including a transparent cover () having a light transmittance of not less than 50%. A circuit pattern of a conductive material is provided in the cover between two sheet-like transparent substrates (). A device main body () is coupled to the transparent coverthereto in an openable/closable manner such that members provided on a surface thereof are concealed or exposed by the transparent cover () being opened or closed. An open/close determination part () is provided for determining whether the transparent cover is open or closed, and function switching parts () are provided for switching functions of the circuit pattern based on the determination of the open/close determination part as to whether the transparent cover is open or closed.

Portable device including a transparent cover usable as an electrostatic capacity switch electrode and an antenna

An object of the present invention is to provide a touch panel having a press detection function, which makes it possible to suppress degradation of visibility of a display unit of a display device even when mounted on an electronic device, and also to improve a pressure measuring precision. For this purpose, the touch panel of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed oppose to the first substrate, a pair of electrodes disposed on either one of opposed surfaces of the respective substrates or disposed separately on both of the surfaces, pressure sensitive ink members disposed with a gap from at least one of the pair of electrodes, each of the pressure sensitive ink members having an electrical characteristic varied by a pressing force applied thereto, and a gap retaining member for bonding the first and second substrates to each other and for retaining a gap between each of the pressure sensitive inks and at least one of the pair of electrodes, wherein the pair of electrodes are disposed in a frame shape along an edge portion of the first or second substrate, and the pressure sensitive ink members are scattered along the edge portion of the first or second substrate so that, when the first or second substrate is deformed upon an application of an external force, at least one of them is made in contact with both of the pair of electrodes so as to make the two electrodes conductive to each other.

Touch panel having press detection function and pressure sensitive sensor for the touch panel

A mesh sheet of the present invention is a mesh sheet in which a metal mesh comprising fine bands is laminated on a surface of a base substrate, the mesh sheet being used and adhered along a surface of an arbitrary member having a curved surface portion. The metal mesh has a part in which the fine band positioned between connection points of the fine bands which are adjacent to each other is a curved line so as to absorb stress relative to deformation to be placed along the curved surface portion with a large curvature without destructing the metal mesh.

Mesh sheet and housing for electronic devices

A transparent antenna for a display, for example, a portable telephone, the transparent antenna performing good transmission and reception, not bulky, and not impairing design of an apparatus. The transparent antenna for a display has an insulating sheet-like transparent substrate and has a planar antenna pattern formed on the surface of the transparent substrate. An electrically conductive section of the antenna pattern is constructed from an electrically conductive thin film of a mesh structure, outlines of each mesh are constituted from extra fine bands with substantially the same width, and the light transmittance of the section where the antenna pattern is formed is equal to or more than 70%.

Transparent antenna for display, translucent member for display with an antenna and housing component with an antenna

A capacitance type light-emitting switch and a light-emitting switch element are provided that operate properly by preventing failure in entry and for which a small number of parts are used. A light-emitting switchhas a light-emitting switch elementand a control element. A light-emitting switch elementhas a panelmade of transparent materials, a decorated layerarranged on at least one side of the panel, a light guide platearranged on the back sides of the panel and the decorated layer, a point light sourceor a line light source arranged on the side of the light guide plate, and a reflective layerthat is made of an opaque metal film of less than 1&#x3a9;/cmof surface resistance measured by the four-point probe array measurement method, mounted on the back side of the light guide plate, and is formed to have an electrode unitand a conductive unitconnected to the electrode unit. The control element, which is connected to the electrode unitthrough the conductive unit, switches a circuit/circuits for an external loading device, depending on the change in the capacitance of the electrode unit.

Capacitance type light-emitting switch and light-emitting switch element used for such capacitance type light-emitting switch

A transparent antenna for a vehicle has a transmittance property providing good visibility without worsening the design and is capable of realizing low resistance. The transparent antenna has an insulating sheet-like transparent base body () and an antenna pattern planarly formed on the surface of the transparent base body (). An electrically conductive section () of the antenna pattern is constructed from an electrically conductive thin film of a mesh structure, lines of each mesh are constructed from very fine bands having substantially equal widths, and the width of each of the very fine bands is 30 &#x3bc;m or less. The light transmittance of the antenna pattern is 70% or higher.

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Kyoto, Japan

Shuzo Okumura