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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Tiffany Tang Moy, Redwood City, CA (US);
Tsung-Ting Tsai, San Jose, CA (US);
Warren S. A. Rieutort-Louis, Cupertino, CA (US);
Aleksandr N. Polyakov, San Jose, CA (US);
Chuang Qian, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sabino Joseph Pietrangelo, II, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abbas Jamshidi-Roudbari, Saratoga, CA (US);
Rui Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Yurii Morozov, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Visibility of the metal mesh touch electrodes can be mitigated using one or more mitigation techniques. In some examples, the boundary between touch electrodes and/or the boundary between a touch electrode and a routing trace of another touch electrode and/or the boundary between two routing traces can be non-linear. In some examples, dummy cuts can be made within an area of a touch electrode region (e.g., while maintaining the same electrical potential for the touch electrode region). In some examples, notches can be made in the metal mesh. In some examples, the location of cuts and/or notches can be optimized to mitigate visibility of the metal mesh. In some examples, some or all of the visibility mitigations may be used in combination in a touch screen.