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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Martin Paul Grunthaner, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Lili Huang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A touch sensor panel having column traces that can terminate at a short edge of a substrate is disclosed. A flex circuit can have a wide flex circuit portion extending the full width of the short edge that can bond to the bond pads on the top side of the substrate. It can be undesirable to have column traces (e.g., sense lines) and row traces (e.g., drives lines) cross over each other at the bonding area, and it can also be undesirable to have bond pads formed on directly opposing sides of the substrate because such areas can generate unwanted stray mutual capacitance and coupling of signals. Row traces can be routed to the same short edge of the substrate as column traces using wide conductive traces running along the borders of the substrate.