US 12,032,775 B2
Touch panel and display device including the same
Hyoung Wook Jang, Anyang-si (KR); Hyun Jae Na, Seoul (KR); Jin Woo Noh, Hwaseong-si (KR); and Soon Sung Ahn, Cheonan-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed on Feb. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/786,617.
Application 16/786,617 is a continuation of application No. 15/894,664, filed on Feb. 12, 2018, granted, now 10,564,783.
Application 15/894,664 is a continuation of application No. 14/504,245, filed on Oct. 1, 2014, granted, now 9,898,146, issued on Feb. 20, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2014-0030527 (KR), filed on Mar. 14, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2020/0183516 A1, Jun. 11, 2020
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/04164 (2019.05) [G06F 3/04166 (2019.05); G06F 3/0443 (2019.05); G06F 2203/04106 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04112 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A touch panel, comprising:
a first sensing column and a second sensing column each including:
a first set of electrodes including a first electrode and a second electrode sequentially and linearly arranged in a first direction;
a second set of electrodes including a third electrode, a sixth electrode, a fourth electrode, a fifth electrode, a seventh electrode, and an eighth electrode sequentially and linearly arranged in the first direction in a listed order of the third electrode, the sixth electrode, the fourth electrode, the fifth electrode, the seventh electrode, and the eighth electrode;
a first wire electrically connected to the first electrode and disposed at a first side of the first set of electrodes; and
a second wire electrically connected to the second electrode and disposed at a second side of the first set of electrodes opposite to the first side between the second electrode and the second set of electrodes,
wherein the third electrode, the sixth electrode, and the fourth electrode face the first electrode in a second direction crossing the first direction, the fifth electrode, the seventh electrode, and the eighth electrode face the second electrode in the second direction, and the fourth electrode is electrically connected to the fifth electrode,
wherein the third electrode, the sixth electrode, and the fourth electrode included in the first sensing column are electrically connected to the third electrode, the sixth electrode, and the fourth electrode included in the second sensing column, respectively, through bus lines,
wherein third wires of the first sensing column electrically connect the third electrode, the sixth electrode, and the fourth electrode included in the first sensing column to the bus lines,
wherein third wires of the second sensing column electrically connect the third electrode, the sixth electrode, and the fourth electrode included in the second sensing column to the bus lines,
wherein electrical connections of the third wires of the first sensing column to the bus lines include a first switch, and
wherein electrical connections of the third wires of the second sensing column to the bus lines include a second switch.