TWI414985B - Information input module and information apparatus using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The disclosure provides an information input module applied in a number of kinds of information process apparatuses. The information input module includes a transparent substrate, a first electrode, a solar cell layer, and a second electrode. The solar cell layer includes at least two solar cells electrically insulated from each other. The solar cells generate electrical signals to reflect user's operations. The transparent substrate is for carrying the solar cell layer and is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode are electrically connected with the solar cells. The disclosure also provides an information apparatus using the information input module.

Description

Information input module and information processing device with photovoltaic power generation function

The present invention relates to an information input module and an information processing device, and more particularly to an information input module using a light energy power generation function and an information processing device using the information input module.

With the advancement of science and technology, new materials that convert light energy into electrical energy are emerging and their energy conversion efficiency has been significantly improved. Therefore, people use photovoltaic power generation materials on the surface of mobile devices (such as automobiles and portable electronic devices) to utilize solar energy or natural light energy. At the same time, people will also set several isolation and light energy on the device. The area where the material is generated. When the user shields a certain area, the power generation efficiency of the light energy power generation area is different from that of the other light energy power generation areas, so that the electronic device converts the shadowing operation into an input command corresponding to the device. However, the manufacture of a low-cost information input device having a photovoltaic power generation function is an urgent technical problem to be solved.

In view of this, it is necessary to provide an information input module having a photovoltaic power generation function to solve the above problems.

It is also necessary to provide a resource input module that uses the photovoltaic power generation function. Processing device.

An information input module having a photovoltaic power generation function includes a light transmissive substrate, a first electrode, a photovoltaic power generation layer, and a second electrode. The photovoltaic power generation layer includes at least two mutually independent photovoltaic power generation units. The transparent substrate is used to carry a light energy generating layer and a first electrode and a second electrode are respectively disposed on two sides of the light energy generating layer. The first electrode and the second electrode are electrically connected to the at least two mutually independent photovoltaic power generation units. The light energy generating unit changes the generated electrical parameters in response to the shielding or occlusion operation.

An information processing apparatus including an information input module having a photovoltaic power generation function, the information processing apparatus further comprising a detection determination unit and a processor. The information input module receives a user operation to cause a change in electrical parameters of the light energy generating unit. The detection determining unit is configured to detect an electrical parameter of the plurality of light energy generating units and determine a light energy generating unit that changes in electrical parameters. The processor is configured to compare the electrical parameters corresponding to the light energy generating unit whose electrical parameters are changed, and output a control command corresponding to the light energy generating unit with the smallest electrical parameter.

An information processing apparatus including an information input module having a photovoltaic power generation function, the information processing apparatus further comprising a detection determination unit and a processor. The information input module receives a user operation to cause a change in electrical parameters of the light energy generating unit. The detection determining unit is configured to detect an electrical parameter of the plurality of light energy generating units and determine a light energy generating unit that changes in electrical parameters. The processor searches for and outputs a corresponding preset control command according to at least two light energy power generation units whose electrical parameters change.

Compared with the prior art, a plurality of mutually independent light energy generating units are disposed on the transparent substrate, and electrodes electrically connected to each of the light energy generating units are also disposed on the transparent substrate; Thereby, a low-cost information input module with photovoltaic power generation function is formed. The information input module can be easily applied to various electronic devices instead of the input keyboard.

10‧‧‧Information input module

3, 3'‧‧‧ conductive column

6‧‧‧Light energy unit

7‧‧‧Isolated area

8, 8'‧‧‧ conductive electrodes

9, 9'‧‧‧Insulated area

101‧‧‧Transparent substrate

102, 102'‧‧‧ first electrode

103‧‧‧Light power generation layer

104, 104'‧‧‧ second electrode

105‧‧‧Protective layer

11‧‧‧Detection and judgment unit

12‧‧‧ Processor

13‧‧‧Display unit

14‧‧‧Power supply module

91‧‧‧Charging unit

92‧‧‧Rechargeable battery

FIG. 1a is a schematic diagram showing the structure of an information input module having a photovoltaic power generation function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 1b is a schematic diagram showing the structure of an information input module having a photovoltaic power generation function according to another embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a schematic diagram of an information processing apparatus applying the information input module shown in FIG. 1.

3 is a block diagram of an information processing device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments and the accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1a, the information input module 10 having a photovoltaic power generation function includes a transparent substrate 101, a first electrode 102, a photovoltaic power generation layer 103, a second electrode 104, and a protective layer 105 in this order from the light incident surface. The information input module 10 having the photovoltaic power generation function is used as an input interface of various information processing apparatuses 100 (refer to FIG. 2), such as an input keyboard of an electronic device such as a mobile phone, an electronic reader, or a personal digital assistant.

The light-transmitting substrate 101 is made of a glass material or a plastic material having a good light transmittance.

The photovoltaic power generation layer 103 is disposed between the light-transmitting substrate 101 and the protective layer 105. The photovoltaic power generation layer 103 includes a plurality of light energy power generation units 6 that are independently disposed from each other and an isolation region 7 for separating the light energy power generation units 6 from each other. Each of the light energy generating units 6 corresponds to at least one control command of the information processing apparatus 100. When a certain light energy generating unit 6 is shielded In the case of occlusion, the relevant electrical parameters such as the voltage, the current, and the power generation efficiency of the photovoltaic power generation unit 6 are changed, so that the information processing device 100 outputs a corresponding control command in response to the change in the electrical parameter of the photovoltaic power generation unit 6.

In the present embodiment, the photovoltaic power generation unit 6 is applied to the light-transmitting substrate 101 in a square shape by an industrial coating technique using a material such as amorphous germanium, single crystal germanium, polycrystalline germanium or organic germanium. The control command character corresponding to the light energy generating unit 6 is etched by a laser etching technique on the incident surface of the transparent substrate 101 corresponding to each of the light energy generating units 6.

The first electrode 102 and the second electrode 104 are both electrically connected to the photovoltaic power generation unit 6. In the present embodiment, the first electrode 102 and the second electrode 104 each have a layered structure, and the photovoltaic power generation layer 103 is sandwiched between the first electrode 102 and the second electrode 104.

The first electrode 102 is disposed between the transparent substrate 101 and the photovoltaic power generation layer 103 and is made of a transparent conductive material such as an indium tin oxide (ITO) film. The first electrode 102 is electrically connected to one ends of the plurality of light energy generating units 6 to form a common electrode of the plurality of light energy generating units 6.

The second electrode 104 includes a plurality of conductive electrodes 8 that are insulated from each other, and each of the conductive electrodes 8 is electrically connected to the other end of the corresponding photovoltaic power generation unit 6 with respect to the first electrode 102. The insulating region 9 insulates the conductive electrodes 8 from each other. The respective conductive electrodes 8 of the second electrode 104 are also connected to the external wires through at least one conductive post 3 to transmit the electrical parameters of the photovoltaic power generation unit 6 to the information processing device 100.

In another embodiment, referring to Fig. 1b, the first electrode 102' includes a plurality of mutually insulated light transmissive conductive electrodes 8' and a light transmissive insulating region 9'. Each of them The photoconductive electrode 8' is electrically connected to one end of a photovoltaic power generation unit 6 and is connected to an external lead through at least one conductive post 3'. The second electrode 104' is electrically connected to the other end of the plurality of light energy generating units 6 to form a common electrode of the plurality of light energy generating units 6. Obviously, when the light-receiving area of the conductive electrode 8' or the light-transmitting insulating region 9' is negligible with respect to the light-receiving area of the photovoltaic power generating unit 6, the conductive electrode 8' or the insulating region 9' may also be opaque. material.

The protective layer 105 is used to fix the first electrode 102, the photovoltaic power generation layer 103, and the second electrode 104 on the transparent substrate 101.

When a certain light energy generating unit 6 of the information input module 10 having a photovoltaic power generation function is shielded or blocked, that is, blocking the sunlight or natural ambient light from illuminating the light energy generating unit 6, the light energy generating unit 6 generates The related electric parameters such as the voltage, the current, and the power generation efficiency are changed, so that the information processing device 100 responds to the control command of the voltage, current, and power generation efficiency of the photovoltaic power generation unit 6 to output a corresponding control command to realize the information input function.

Referring to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, the information processing apparatus 100 includes the information input module 10 or 10' having the light energy generating function of FIG. 1a or FIG. 1b, the detection determining unit 11, the processor 12, the display unit 13, and each of The power supply module 14 is powered by the functional units. The information input module 10 includes a plurality of mutually independent light energy generating units 6. When the user shields or blocks the light energy generating unit 6 to block the irradiation of sunlight or natural ambient light, the relevant electrical parameters generated by the photovoltaic power generating unit 6 are changed. The electrical parameters include voltage, current, and power generation efficiency. The information processing apparatus 100 converts and outputs a corresponding control command in response to a change in the electrical parameters of the respective light energy generating units 6. In the embodiment, the display unit 13 is a liquid crystal display screen or an electronic paper display screen.

The information input module 10 or 10' having the function of generating light energy is used for receiving the user's operation on the information processing apparatus 100 according to the user shielding the light energy generating unit 6.

The detection determination unit 11 is configured to detect the electrical parameters of the plurality of light energy power generation units 6 and determine the light energy power generation unit 6 in which the electrical parameters are changed.

In this embodiment, please refer to FIG. 2 at the same time, in a shielding operation, the user's finger shields the light energy generating unit 6 corresponding to the control command D, and also blocks part of the light energy generating unit 6 corresponding to the control command G, and The electrical parameters of the remaining photovoltaic power generation units 6 do not change or the electrical parameters are in a normal state. Therefore, in the masking operation, the detection determination unit 11 detects all the electric parameters of the photovoltaic power generation unit 6, and determines that the electrical parameters of the photovoltaic power generation unit 6 corresponding to the control commands G and D have changed, and then the control command G and The electrical parameters of the light energy generating unit 6 corresponding to D are sent to the processor 12 for further processing.

The processor 12 is configured to compare the electrical parameters corresponding to the light energy generating unit 6 whose electrical parameters have changed, and output a control command corresponding to the light energy generating unit 6 having the smallest electrical parameter. In the present embodiment, in the touch operation, the processor 12 only needs to compare the electrical parameters corresponding to the light energy generating unit 6 whose electrical parameters are changed, thereby avoiding excessive occupation of the processor 12 resources and shortening the response of the user operation. time.

In another embodiment, the processor 12 further pre-stores control commands corresponding to when the electrical parameters of the at least two light energy generating units 6 change simultaneously. During a touch or shadowing operation, when the user simultaneously shields at least two of the light energy generating units 6, the processor 12 searches for and outputs a corresponding control command according to the at least two light energy generating units 6 whose electrical parameters are simultaneously changed. If there are no electrical parameters of the at least two light energy generating units 6 When the control command corresponding to the change occurs at the same time, the control command corresponding to the light energy power generation unit 6 having the smallest electrical parameter is output or the operation of the user is ignored, and the control command is not output.

The power supply module 14 includes a charging unit 91 and a rechargeable battery 92. The charging unit 91 is configured to collect the electrical energy of the photovoltaic power generating unit 6 and store the rechargeable battery 92, and then the information processing device 100 has a standby time.

The information processing device 100 applies the information input module 10 having a photovoltaic power generation function, so that it can realize the user information input function while using solar energy or natural light energy. In order to reduce the probability that the input operation does not match the output control command, the information processing apparatus 100 outputs a control command corresponding to the light energy generating unit 6 having the smallest electrical parameter during an input operation.

It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the above embodiments are only intended to illustrate the invention, and are not intended to limit the invention, as long as it is within the spirit of the invention. Changes and modifications are intended to fall within the scope of the invention.

10‧‧‧Information input module

3‧‧‧conductive column

6‧‧‧Light energy unit

7‧‧‧Isolated area

8‧‧‧Conductive electrode

9‧‧‧Insulated area

101‧‧‧Transparent substrate

102‧‧‧First electrode

103‧‧‧Light power generation layer

104‧‧‧second electrode

105‧‧‧Protective layer

Claims (10)

An information input module having a photovoltaic power generation function, comprising: a transparent substrate, a first electrode, a photovoltaic power generation layer and a second electrode; wherein the photovoltaic power generation layer comprises at least two independent light energy sources a light transmissive substrate for carrying a light energy generating layer and respectively providing a first electrode and a second electrode on both sides of the light energy generating layer; one of the first electrode and the second electrode and the One ends of at least two photovoltaic power generation units are electrically connected to form a common electrode of the at least two photovoltaic power generation units, and the other of the first and second electrodes includes at least two conductive electrodes that are insulated from each other Each of the conductive electrodes is electrically connected to the other end of the corresponding one of the at least two photovoltaic power generation units; the light energy power generation unit changes the generated electrical parameters in response to the shielding or occlusion operation. An information input module having a photovoltaic power generation function according to claim 1, wherein the photovoltaic power generation layer further comprises an electrical isolation unit, configured to: the at least two mutually independent photovoltaic power generation units Separated from each other. An information input module having a photovoltaic power generation function according to claim 1, wherein the transparent substrate is made of a glass material or a plastic material having a good light transmittance. An information input module having a photovoltaic power generation function according to claim 1, wherein the at least two mutually independent light energy generating units are provided with command symbols on the incident surface transparent substrate. An information input module having a photovoltaic power generation function according to claim 1, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode have a layered structure, and the photovoltaic power generation layer is sandwiched between the first electrode and the first Between the two electrodes; the first electrode is made of a light-transmitting material and is used as a A common electrode of the photovoltaic power generation unit; the second electrode includes a plurality of conductive electrodes disposed in insulation with each other; wherein each of the conductive electrodes is electrically connected to a light energy power generation unit. An information input module having a photovoltaic power generation function according to claim 1, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are disposed in a layered structure, and the photovoltaic power generation layer is sandwiched between the first electrode and The first electrode includes a plurality of conductive electrodes disposed in insulation with each other; wherein each of the conductive electrodes is electrically connected to a light energy generating unit; and the second electrode serves as a common electrode of the light energy generating unit. An information input module having a photovoltaic power generation function according to claim 1, wherein the information input module further includes a protection layer for fixing the first electrode, the light energy generation layer and the second electrode Set on the transparent substrate. An information processing device comprising the information input module with the photovoltaic power generation function described in claim 1 is improved, wherein the information processing device further comprises a detection and determination unit and a processor, and the information input module The utility model is configured to mask one or more of the light energy generating units according to a user to receive an operation of a user on an information processing device; the detecting determining unit is configured to detect an electrical parameter of the light energy generating unit and determine light that changes in electrical parameters The power generation unit is configured to compare the electrical parameters corresponding to the light energy power generation unit whose electrical parameters are changed, and output a control command corresponding to the light energy power generation unit having the smallest electrical parameter. An information processing device comprising the information input module with the photovoltaic power generation function described in claim 1 is improved, wherein the information processing device further comprises a detection and determination unit and a processor, and the information input module The utility model is configured to block the light energy power generation unit according to a user to receive an operation of the information processing device by the user; the detection determination unit is configured to detect the electrical parameter of the light energy power generation unit and determine the light energy power generation unit that changes the electrical parameter; The light energy of the processor that changes according to at least two electrical parameters The power generation unit finds and outputs a corresponding control command. The information processing device of claim 9, wherein the processor finds that there is no control command corresponding to when the electrical parameters of the at least two light energy generating units change simultaneously The control command corresponding to the light energy generating unit having the smallest electrical parameter is output or the control command is not output.