US 11,861,101 B2
Touch sensing device and electronic device providing freedom of placement of sensing coil
Joo Hyoung Lee, Suwon-si (KR); and Joo Yul Ko, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Mar. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/197,108.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0066813 (KR), filed on Jun. 3, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0136136 (KR), filed on Oct. 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0382596 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/04166 (2019.05) [G06F 3/0445 (2019.05); G06F 3/04142 (2019.05); G06F 2203/04104 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04106 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04107 (2013.01)] 43 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A touch sensing device configured to be installed in an electronic device, the touch sensing device comprising:
a first sensing electrode disposed inside the electronic device,
wherein the electronic device comprises:
a side unit, wherein the side unit comprises a non-conductive cover and a conductive frame coupled to the non-conductive cover; and
a touch switch unit, wherein the touch switch unit comprises a first touch member that is a portion of the non-conductive cover,
wherein the first sensing electrode is disposed to face an inner surface of the first touch member;
a first sensing coil disposed on a surface inside the electronic device different than another surface on which the first sensing electrode is disposed; and
a first connection wire comprising one end connected to the first sensing electrode and another end connected to the first sensing coil.