Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Capacitive input device having two detection modes
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Application No.: US15821471Application Date: 2017-11-22
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Publication No.: US10649594B2Publication Date: 2020-05-12
- Inventor: Junji Hashida
- Applicant: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Beyer Law Group LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@10845cbb
- Main IPC: G06F3/045
- IPC: G06F3/045 ; G06F3/044 ; G06F3/041

Abstract:
First and second substrates are disposed to face each other and allowed to approach each other. A plurality of first electrodes are formed on the first substrate. A plurality of second electrodes are formed on the second substrate and face the respective first electrodes. A facing electrode pair is constituted by each of the first electrodes and a corresponding one of the second electrodes. A switching unit causes each of the first electrodes and each of the second electrodes to be connected to a driving unit or a detecting unit and switches between a first detection state in which a distance change between each of the first electrodes and a corresponding one of the second electrodes is detected and a second detection state in which the coordinates of a position that an operating body approaches or touches are determined in accordance with detection outputs from the facing electrode pairs.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180095562A1 CAPACITIVE INPUT DEVICE Public/Granted day:2018-04-05
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