US 12,282,619 B2
Touch sensor having device hole defined between sensing electrodes and image display device including the same
Byung Jin Choi, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and HwanSil Jang, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD., Jeollabuk-do (KR)
Filed by DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD., Jeollabuk-do (KR)
Filed on May 31, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/679,952.
Application 18/679,952 is a continuation of application No. 17/885,724, filed on Aug. 11, 2022, granted, now 12,032,763.
Application 17/885,724 is a continuation of application No. 16/124,871, filed on Sep. 7, 2018, granted, now 11,449,161, issued on Sep. 20, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2017-0117546 (KR), filed on Sep. 14, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2024/0319811 A1, Sep. 26, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/047 (2006.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01); H10K 59/40 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 3/0412 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0443 (2019.05); G06F 3/0446 (2019.05); G06F 3/047 (2013.01); G02F 1/13338 (2013.01); G06F 3/0448 (2019.05); G06F 2203/04111 (2013.01); H10K 59/40 (2023.02)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A touch sensor comprising:
a substrate layer;
a plurality of sensing electrodes on the substrate layer; and
at least one device hole penetrating through one or more of the sensing electrodes,
wherein the at least one device hole is configured to be superimposed over a functional device of an image display device which includes at least one of a camera, a speaker, a recorder, an optical sensor, and a lighting device such that the functional device is not positioned in the device hole;
the sensing electrodes include first sensing electrodes arranged along a first direction to form a first sensing electrode row and second sensing electrodes arranged along a second direction to form a second sensing electrode column, the first and second directions being perpendicular to each other on the substrate layer; and
the device hole is defined by a space between a pair of the neighboring first sensing electrodes and a pair of the neighboring second sensing electrodes.