Abstract: A capacitive touch sensitive housing comprises: a housing wall; an array of capacitive touch sensor pads formed on the housing wall; a plurality of conductive bonding pads formed on the housing wall; and a plurality of conductive lines formed on the housing wall. Each conductive line extends from a respective one of the touch sensor pads to a respective one of the bonding pads and cooperates with the respective one of the capacitive touch sensor pads and the respective one of the bonding pads to define a touch sensor unit having a layered structure including an active metal layer and an electroless deposited metal layer. The active metal layer contains an active metal capable of initiating electroless deposition.

Abstract: A circuit device includes: a substrate having an insulative upper surface; a hydrophobic anti-plating layer of a hydrophobic material formed on the upper surface of the substrate and having at least one patterned through-hole for exposing a plating portion of the upper surface of the substrate; an active metal layer formed on the plating portion of the upper surface of the substrate and disposed in the patterned through-hole in the hydrophobic anti-plating layer; and an electroless deposited metal layer electroless deposited on the active metal layer.

Abstract: A non-deleterious method for producing a continuous conductive circuit upon a non-conductive substrate can begin with the application of a metallic base layer upon a surface of a non-conductive substrate. A circuit pattern can be created within the metallic base layer based upon a circuit design. The metallic base layer comprising the circuit pattern can be physically separated from the remainder of the metallic base layer on the non-conductive substrate. The region of the non-conductive substrate surface that encloses the circuit pattern can be called the plating region. The remainder of the non-conductive substrate surface can be called the non-plating region. A first metal layer can be added upon the metallic base layer. A second metal layer can be added upon the first metal layer of the plating region. The second metal layer can be electrically conductive and restricted from forming on the first metal layer of the non-plating region.

Abstract: A circuit substrate includes: an insulative substrate formed with a pattern of a recess, the recess being defined by a recess-defining wall that has a bottom wall surface and a surrounding wall surface extending upwardly from the bottom wall surface; a patterned metallic layer structure including at least a patterned active metal layer disposed within the recess, formed on the bottom wall surface of the recess-defining wall, and spaced apart from the surrounding wall surface of the recess-defining wall, the patterned active metal layer containing an active metal capable of initiating electroless plating; and a primary metal layer plated on the patterned metallic layer structure.

Abstract: A capacitive touch sensitive housing comprises: a housing wall; an array of capacitive touch sensor pads formed on the housing wall; a plurality of conductive bonding pads formed on the housing wall; and a plurality of conductive lines formed on the housing wall. Each conductive line extends from a respective one of the touch sensor pads to a respective one of the bonding pads and cooperates with the respective one of the capacitive touch sensor pads and the respective one of the bonding pads to define a touch sensor unit having a layered structure including an active metal layer and an electroless deposited metal layer. The active metal layer contains an active metal capable of initiating electroless deposition.

Abstract: A non-deleterious method for producing a continuous conductive circuit upon a non-conductive substrate can begin with the application of a metallic base layer upon a surface of a non-conductive substrate. A circuit pattern can be created within the metallic base layer based upon a circuit design. The metallic base layer comprising the circuit pattern can be physically separated from the remainder of the metallic base layer on the non-conductive substrate. The region of the non-conductive substrate surface that encloses the circuit pattern can be called the plating region. The remainder of the non-conductive substrate surface can be called the non-plating region. A first metal layer can be added upon the metallic base layer. A second metal layer can be added upon the first metal layer of the plating region. The second metal layer can be electrically conductive and restricted from forming on the first metal layer of the non-plating region.

Abstract: A nanomaterial processing system is constructed to include a compressor adapted to compress a flow of air/liquid into a high-pressure flow of air/liquid, a material feeder adapted to feed a material into the high-pressure flow of air/liquid passing out of the compressor, enabling the fed material to be mixed with the high-pressure flow of air/liquid into a high-pressure material flow; a shunt collider adapted to shunt the high-pressure material flow into two sub-flows and to let the shunt sub-flows to collide into a collided material flow, and a high-speed cutting unit, which uses a diamond coating-coated cutting wheel to cut solid substances the collided material flow.

Abstract: A nanomaterial processing system is constructed to include a compressor adapted to compress a flow of air/liquid into a high-pressure flow of air/liquid, a material feeder adapted to feed a material into the high-pressure flow of air/liquid passing out of the compressor, enabling the fed material to be mixed with the high-pressure flow of air/liquid into a high-pressure material flow; a shunt collider adapted to shunt the high-pressure material flow into two sub-flows and to let the shunt sub-flows to collide into a collided material flow, and a high-speed cutting unit, which uses a diamond coating-coated cutting wheel to cut solid substances the collided material flow.