Invention Application
US20140085253A1 Force Sensing Using Dual-Layer Cover Glass with Gel Adhesive and Capacitive Sensing
审中-公开
使用双层盖玻璃与凝胶粘合力和电容感应力传感
- Patent Title: Force Sensing Using Dual-Layer Cover Glass with Gel Adhesive and Capacitive Sensing
- Patent Title (中): 使用双层盖玻璃与凝胶粘合力和电容感应力传感
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Application No.: US13676992Application Date: 2012-11-14
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Publication No.: US20140085253A1Publication Date: 2014-03-27
- Inventor: Omar Sze Leung , Jonah A. Harley , James E. Wright , Craig Christopher Leong , Kristina A. Babiarz
- Applicant: APPLE INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Main IPC: G06F3/044
- IPC: G06F3/044

Abstract:
A touch device including a force sensor disposed between capacitive sensing structures, so both touch and force sensing occur capacitively using device drivers in rows and columns. A dual-layer cover glass, with gel adhesive separating first and second CG layers, so capacitive sensing between the first and second CG layers can determine both touch locations and applied force. The first and second CG layers include a compressible material having a Poisson's ratio of less than approximately 0.48, the force sensor being embedded therein, or disposed between the first and second CG layers. Applied force is detected using capacitive detection of depression of the first CG layer. Depression is responsive to compressible features smaller than optical wavelengths, so those features are substantially invisible to users. Alternatively, the compressible features may be large enough to be seen by a user, but made substantially invisible through the use of a fluid or other element filling spaces between the features. Such a fluid may have an index of refraction equal to, or nearly equal to, the index of refraction of the compressible features.
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