Abstract: A touch panel including upper and lower electrode substrates including upper and lower conductive layers, respectively; first and second electrodes respectively provided at both ends of the upper conductive layer in a first direction for causing an electric potential distribution in the first direction; third and fourth electrodes respectively provided at both ends of the lower conductive layer in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction for causing an electric potential distribution in the second direction; a flexible substrate provided to be connected to the lower electrode substrate or the upper electrode substrate; a first resistor portion electrically connected to either of the first or second electrode and formed at the upper electrode substrate or the flexible substrate; and a second resistor portion connected to either of the third or fourth electrode and formed at the lower electrode substrate or the flexible substrate.

Abstract: A touch panel including upper and lower electrode substrates including upper and lower conductive layers, respectively; first and second electrodes respectively provided at both ends of the upper conductive layer in a first direction for causing an electric potential distribution in the first direction; third and fourth electrodes respectively provided at both ends of the lower conductive layer in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction for causing an electric potential distribution in the second direction; a flexible substrate provided to be connected to the lower electrode substrate or the upper electrode substrate; a first resistor portion electrically connected to either of the first or second electrode and formed at the upper electrode substrate or the flexible substrate; and a second resistor portion connected to either of the third or fourth electrode and formed at the lower electrode substrate or the flexible substrate.

Abstract: A touch panel including upper and lower electrode substrates including upper and lower conductive layers, respectively; first and second electrodes respectively provided at bath ends of the upper conductive layer in a first direction for causing an electric potential distribution in the first direction; third and fourth electrodes respectively provided at both ends of the lower conductive layer in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction for causing an electric potential distribution in the second direction; a flexible substrate provided to be connected to the lower electrode substrate or the upper electrode substrate; a first resistor portion electrically connected to either of the first or second electrode and formed at the upper electrode substrate or the flexible substrate; and a second resistor portion connected to either of the third or fourth electrode and formed at the lower electrode substrate or the flexible substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a touch panel including a first electrode substrate including a first conductive layer; and a second electrode substrate including a second conductive layer and being stacked with the first electrode substrate such that the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer face each other. The first conductive layer is composed of a first line of conductive areas and a second line of conductive areas adjacent to the first line where each of the first and the second lines includes an odd number greater than or equal to three of the conductive areas aligned in a second direction, and the conductive areas positioned in the middle of the first line and the second line are respectively connected with extracting areas extending toward different edges in the second direction.

Abstract: A touch panel including upper and lower electrode substrates including upper and lower conductive layers, respectively; first and second electrodes respectively provided at bath ends of the upper conductive layer in a first direction for causing an electric potential distribution in the first direction; third and fourth electrodes respectively provided at both ends of the lower conductive layer in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction for causing an electric potential distribution in the second direction; a flexible substrate provided to be connected to the lower electrode substrate or the upper electrode substrate; a first resistor portion electrically connected to either of the first or second electrode and formed at the upper electrode substrate or the flexible substrate; and a second resistor portion connected to either of the third or fourth electrode and formed at the lower electrode substrate or the flexible substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a touch panel including a first electrode substrate including a first conductive layer; and a second electrode substrate including a second conductive layer and being stacked with the first electrode substrate such that the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer face each other. The first conductive layer is composed of a first line of conductive areas and a second line of conductive areas adjacent to the first line where each of the first and the second lines includes an odd number greater than or equal to three of the conductive areas aligned in a second direction, and the conductive areas positioned in the middle of the first line and the second line are respectively connected with extracting areas extending toward different edges in the second direction.

Abstract: A touch panel that includes a polarizing plate, and used as an input device of a display unit of a personal computer, a word processor, an electronic notebook and the like is structured by one or more films that have a low heat contraction coefficient and a low water absorption coefficient, which remarkably suppress occurrence of concave deformations of the polarizing plate after exposure to a high temperature and soaking in water, avoiding short circuits.

Abstract: Laser etching is used to form channels which divides a conductive film adhered on a board of a touch panel into a plurality of regions of desired form. A conductive film damage preventing element is attached on the board of the moving-side panel of a pair of panels or the double-faced tape to join them at their perimeters, to prevent damage by the edge of the double-faced tape. A re-usable adhesive layer having 90-degree peel off power of 5 g to 500 g/25 mm is used to adhere optical material on a surface of the panel.

Abstract: A touch panel that includes a polarizing plate, and used as an input device of a display unit of a personal computer, a word processor, an electronic notebook and the like is structured by one or more films that have a low heat contraction coefficient and a low water absorption coefficient, which remarkably suppress occurrence of concave deformations of the polarizing plate after exposure to a high temperature and soaking in water, avoiding short circuits.

Abstract: Laser etching is used to form channels which divides a conductive film adhered on a board of a touch panel into a plurality of regions of desired form. A conductive film damage preventing element is attached on the board of the moving-side panel of a pair of panels or the double-faced tape to join them at their perimeters, to prevent damage by the edge of the double-faced tape. A re-usable adhesive layer having 90-degree peel off power of 5 g to 500 g/25 mm is used to adhere optical material on a surface of the panel.

Abstract: An input panel of a resistance layer type includes a first board having a first transparent conductive layer on its surface and a second board having a second transparent conductive layer on its surface. The first board and the second board are arranged such that the first transparent conductive layer faces the second transparent conductive layer. The input panel further includes first spacers arranged between the first board and the second board, the first spacers being non-conductive and having a height no greater than 14 .mu.m, and second spacers arranged between the first board and the second board among the first spacers, the second spacers being non-conductive and having a height no smaller than 15 .mu.m.

Abstract: A touch panel to detect a coordinate of an arbitrary position where pressure is applied. The touch panel includes a substrate, a resistor layer provided on the substrate, a spacer layer made of an insulator material, a conductor layer confronting the resistor layer via the spacer layer, a plurality of point electrodes provided on the resistor layer at a peripheral part of the resistor layer along each side of the resistor layer, and a plurality of switching elements provided above the substrate and electrically coupled to the point electrodes for supplying a voltage to the point electrodes. The spacer layer is made up of a plurality of spacer pieces which are arranged so that an electrical contact is made between the conductor layer and the resistor layer when a pressure is applied at an arbitrary position on the conductor layer.

Abstract: A reusable, heat transfer recording ink sheet using an ink containing, in addition to a colorant and a vehicle, ethylene/vinyl acetate-coated fine powders capable of being partially transferred to an inkreceiving recording medium for each transfer recording, the ethylene/vinyl acetate having a number average molecular weight of 30,000 or less and a vinyl acetate unit thereof being in the range of 18 to 45% by weight of the copolymer. The ink sheet ensures that prints having a sufficiently high density of print and an excellent fixing of the ink to the recording medium are obtained, together with a remarkably increased number of the repetitions of use of the sheet. A production process of the ink sheet is also provided.

Abstract: A reusable, heat transfer recording ink sheet using an ink containing, in addition to a colorant and a vehicle, ethylene/vinyl acetate-coated fine powders capable of being partially transferred to an ink-receiving recording medium for each transfer recording, the ethylene/vinyl acetate having a number average molecular weight of 30,000 or less and a vinyl acetate unit thereof being in the range of 18 to 45% by weight of the copolymer. The ink sheet ensures that prints having a sufficiently high density of print and an excellent fixing of the ink to the recording medium are obtained, together with a remarkably increased number of the repetitions of use of the sheet. A production process of the ink sheet is also provided.