GB2022264A - High density capacitive touch switch array arrangement - Google Patents

High density capacitive touch switch array arrangement

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Publication number
GB2022264A
GB2022264A GB7916597A GB7916597A GB2022264A GB 2022264 A GB2022264 A GB 2022264A GB 7916597 A GB7916597 A GB 7916597A GB 7916597 A GB7916597 A GB 7916597A GB 2022264 A GB2022264 A GB 2022264A
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Prior art keywords
touch
touch sensitive
area
switches
sensitive areas
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GB7916597A
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General Electric Co
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General Electric Co
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03K—PULSE TECHNIQUE
    • H03K17/00—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking
    • H03K17/94—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking characterised by the way in which the control signals are generated
    • H03K17/96—Touch switches
    • H03K17/962—Capacitive touch switches
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24C—DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES ; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F24C7/00—Stoves or ranges heated by electric energy
    • F24C7/08—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
    • F24C7/082—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices on ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03K—PULSE TECHNIQUE
    • H03K17/00—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking
    • H03K17/94—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking characterised by the way in which the control signals are generated
    • H03K17/96—Touch switches
    • H03K17/962—Capacitive touch switches
    • H03K17/9622—Capacitive touch switches using a plurality of detectors, e.g. keyboard
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03K—PULSE TECHNIQUE
    • H03K17/00—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking
    • H03K17/94—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking characterised by the way in which the control signals are generated
    • H03K17/96—Touch switches
    • H03K2017/9602—Touch switches characterised by the type or shape of the sensing electrodes
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03K—PULSE TECHNIQUE
    • H03K2217/00—Indexing scheme related to electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making or -breaking covered by H03K17/00
    • H03K2217/94—Indexing scheme related to electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making or -breaking covered by H03K17/00 characterised by the way in which the control signal is generated
    • H03K2217/96—Touch switches
    • H03K2217/96066—Thumbwheel, potentiometer, scrollbar or slider simulation by touch switch
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03K—PULSE TECHNIQUE
    • H03K2217/00—Indexing scheme related to electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making or -breaking covered by H03K17/00
    • H03K2217/94—Indexing scheme related to electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making or -breaking covered by H03K17/00 characterised by the way in which the control signal is generated
    • H03K2217/96—Touch switches
    • H03K2217/9607—Capacitive touch switches
    • H03K2217/960755—Constructional details of capacitive touch and proximity switches
    • H03K2217/96076—Constructional details of capacitive touch and proximity switches with spring electrode

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Combustion & Propulsion (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Switches That Are Operated By Magnetic Or Electric Fields (AREA)
  • Electronic Switches (AREA)
  • Position Input By Displaying (AREA)

Abstract

A capacitive touch switch arrangement is provided which alleviates panel layout problems which result from the minimum area required for proper operation of capacitive touch switches. There is at least a pair of capacitive touch switches, each having, as its input element, a touch pad (84 to 89) of sufficient area for proper operation of the touch switch. A pair of primary touch sensitive areas (58, 60, 62, 64, 66) are delineated, such as by panel indicia 69 to 77, and arranged such that a touch on either primary touch sensitive area activates only one of the respective touch switches. In addition, at least one secondary touch sensitive area (59, 61, 63, 65) is delineated and arranged such that a touch on the secondary touch sensitive area activates both of the adjacent touch switches. A circuit means responsive to the touch switches includes decoding logic for generating different outputs in response to the touching of each of the touch sensitive areas. Thus, there is not a one-for-one correspondence between all of the touch sensitive areas and the touch pads. In particular, there are more delineated touch sensitive areas than touch pads, and the touch sensitive areas may be smaller in area than the touch pads. <IMAGE>
GB7916597A 1978-05-22 1979-05-14 High density capacitive touch switch array arrangement Withdrawn GB2022264A (en)

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US90831778A 1978-05-22 1978-05-22

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JP (1) JPS551092A (en)
BR (1) BR7903215A (en)
DE (1) DE2920349A1 (en)
FR (1) FR2427033A1 (en)
GB (1) GB2022264A (en)

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EP0029159A1 (en) * 1979-11-13 1981-05-27 NEFF-WERKE Carl Neff GmbH Electrically heated household baking oven
GB2134294A (en) * 1983-01-21 1984-08-08 Laitram Corp Manual data entry
GB2201019A (en) * 1987-01-28 1988-08-17 Safel A control mechanism for domestic devices
GB2263183A (en) * 1992-01-10 1993-07-14 Harold Birkett Multiple electronic control switch assembly.
GB2263184A (en) * 1992-01-10 1993-07-14 Harold Birkett Pocket sized computer or data processor
EP0568343A1 (en) * 1992-04-30 1993-11-03 Varintelligent(BVI)Limited A contact sensitive substrate
EP0568342A1 (en) * 1992-04-30 1993-11-03 Varintelligent(BVI)Limited A touch sensitive device
GB2274187A (en) * 1993-01-08 1994-07-13 Harold Birkett Reduced sized data processor keyboard
GB2344381A (en) * 1998-10-13 2000-06-07 Kershaw H A Thermal motive power from a heat pump
EP1261131A2 (en) * 2001-05-23 2002-11-27 Cherry GmbH Inductive position switch
EP1426854A2 (en) * 2002-12-06 2004-06-09 Schott Glas Method for the automatic determination of a valid or invalid key input
GB2408569A (en) * 2003-11-28 2005-06-01 Burley Appliances Ltd A domestic heating appliance controlled by a touch sensitive element
WO2006071799A3 (en) * 2004-12-23 2006-08-10 Touchsensor Tech Llc Shared electrode pattern field effect sensor and joystick therewith
DE102005028278A1 (en) * 2005-06-18 2006-12-28 Alfred Hutt Operator control device for electrical appliance has displaying device, which has at least two displaying ranges, lying directly next to each other to which at least two sensor elements are assigned
EP1803221A1 (en) * 2004-09-24 2007-07-04 TouchSensor Technologies, L.L.C. Contactless multiposition switches using capacitive touch sensors
GB2444076A (en) * 2006-11-24 2008-05-28 Basic Holdings A flame effect fire with a touch screen control panel

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EP0150421B1 (en) * 1983-12-27 1989-08-02 Integrated Touch Arrays, Inc. Capacitance-variation-sensitive touch sensing array system
JP2525105B2 (en) * 1992-02-18 1996-08-14 徳光 松元 Melting incinerator
DE102004020824A1 (en) 2004-04-28 2005-12-01 BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH Adjusting device with an at least two-dimensional Sen-sorbereich
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Cited By (25)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0029159A1 (en) * 1979-11-13 1981-05-27 NEFF-WERKE Carl Neff GmbH Electrically heated household baking oven
GB2134294A (en) * 1983-01-21 1984-08-08 Laitram Corp Manual data entry
GB2201019A (en) * 1987-01-28 1988-08-17 Safel A control mechanism for domestic devices
GB2201019B (en) * 1987-01-28 1990-12-12 Safel A control mechanism for refrigerator-freezers
GB2263183A (en) * 1992-01-10 1993-07-14 Harold Birkett Multiple electronic control switch assembly.
GB2263184A (en) * 1992-01-10 1993-07-14 Harold Birkett Pocket sized computer or data processor
GB2263183B (en) * 1992-01-10 1996-10-23 Harold Birkett Improved multiple electronic control switch assembly
EP0568343A1 (en) * 1992-04-30 1993-11-03 Varintelligent(BVI)Limited A contact sensitive substrate
EP0568342A1 (en) * 1992-04-30 1993-11-03 Varintelligent(BVI)Limited A touch sensitive device
US5403648A (en) * 1992-04-30 1995-04-04 Varintelligent (Bvi) Limited Contact sensitive substrate
GB2274187A (en) * 1993-01-08 1994-07-13 Harold Birkett Reduced sized data processor keyboard
GB2344381A (en) * 1998-10-13 2000-06-07 Kershaw H A Thermal motive power from a heat pump
EP1261131A2 (en) * 2001-05-23 2002-11-27 Cherry GmbH Inductive position switch
EP1261131B1 (en) * 2001-05-23 2009-03-25 Cherry GmbH Inductive gear switching unit
EP1426854A2 (en) * 2002-12-06 2004-06-09 Schott Glas Method for the automatic determination of a valid or invalid key input
EP1426854A3 (en) * 2002-12-06 2006-07-05 Schott Ag Method for the automatic determination of a valid or invalid key input
US7135995B2 (en) 2002-12-06 2006-11-14 Schott Ag Method for automatic determination of validity or invalidity of input from a keyboard or a keypad
GB2408569A (en) * 2003-11-28 2005-06-01 Burley Appliances Ltd A domestic heating appliance controlled by a touch sensitive element
EP1803221A1 (en) * 2004-09-24 2007-07-04 TouchSensor Technologies, L.L.C. Contactless multiposition switches using capacitive touch sensors
WO2006071799A3 (en) * 2004-12-23 2006-08-10 Touchsensor Tech Llc Shared electrode pattern field effect sensor and joystick therewith
US7733333B2 (en) 2004-12-23 2010-06-08 Touchsensor Technologies, Llc Shared electrode pattern field effect sensor and joystick therewith
AU2005322065B2 (en) * 2004-12-23 2011-03-03 Touchsensor Technologies, Llc Shared electrode pattern field effect sensor and joystick therewith
DE102005028278A1 (en) * 2005-06-18 2006-12-28 Alfred Hutt Operator control device for electrical appliance has displaying device, which has at least two displaying ranges, lying directly next to each other to which at least two sensor elements are assigned
GB2444076A (en) * 2006-11-24 2008-05-28 Basic Holdings A flame effect fire with a touch screen control panel
GB2444076B (en) * 2006-11-24 2009-02-18 Basic Holdings An electric fire including a touch screen panel

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FR2427033A1 (en) 1979-12-21
BR7903215A (en) 1979-12-11
JPS551092A (en) 1980-01-07
DE2920349A1 (en) 1979-12-06

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