Claims
- 1. A touch panel, comprising:
- a display unit having display elements arranged in a lattice; and
- an input panel, disposed on said display unit, comprising transparent resistive films spaced at a predetermined distance by a plurality of insulating dot spacers two-dimensionally arranged on vertexes of orthogonal hexagons lying in a plane therebetween and formed.
- 2. An input panel used in a touch panel, said input panel comprising:
- a transparent substrate; and
- transparent resistive films provided on said transparent substrate, said transparent resistive films being spaced at a predetermined distance by a plurality of insulating dot spacers which are two-dimensionally arranged on vertexes of orthogonal hexagons lying in a plane disposed between, and in parallel to, the films.
- 3. A touch panel as claimed in claim 2, wherein a distance between each insulating dot spacer and each of plural and respectively adjacent insulating dot spacers located at respective vertexes of a common orthogonal hexagon is one of three fixed and different, but substantially equal distances.
- 4. A touch panel, comprising:
- a display unit having display elements arranged in a lattice; and
- an input panel, disposed on said display-unit, comprising transparent resistive films formed on a transparent substrates, the transparent resistive files being spaced at a predetermined distance by a plurality of insulating dot spacers and wherein the plurality of insulating dot spacers is arranged two-dimensionally, on respective vertexes of orthogonal hexagons spaced in a plane and disposed between the films, with a periodicity of the respective spacings between each insulating dot spacer and the plural insulating dot spacers respectively adjacent thereto selected to produce a reduced number of periodical interferences between the display elements and the insulating dot spacers, in a display produced on the touch panel, relatively to a number thereof produced by a random arrangement of the insulation dot spacers.
- 5. A touch panel, comprising:
- a display unit having display elements arranged in a lattice; and
- an input panel, disposed on said display unit, comprising transparent resistive films formed on a transparent substrate, the transparent resistive films being spaced at a predetermined distance by a plurality of insulating dot spacers and wherein the plurality of insulating dot spacers is two-dimensionally arranged in a plane disposed between the films, a distance between each insulating dot spacer and each of plural and respectively adjacent insulating dot spacers located at respective vertexes of a common orthogonal hexagon being a selected one of three fixed and different, but substantially equal, distances and a periodicity of the respective spacings between each insulating dot spacer and the plural insulating dot spacers respectively adjacent thereto being selected to produce a reduced number of periodical interferences between the display elements and the insulating dot spaces, in a display produced on the touch panel, relatively to a number thereof produced by a random arrangement of the insulating dot spacers.
- 6. An input panel for a touch panel, said input panel comprising:
- a transparent substrate; and
- transparent resistive films provided on said transparent substrate, said transparent resistive films being spaced at a predetermined distance by a plurality of insulating dot spacers two-dimensionally arranged on respective vertexes of orthogonal hexagons spaced in a plane disposed between the films, with a periodicity of the respective spacings between each insulating dot spacer ad the plural insulating dot spacers respectively adjacent thereto being selected to produce a reduced number of periodical interferences between the insulating dot spacers and display elements of the touch panel, in a display produced on the touch panel, relatively to a number thereof produced by a random arrangement of the insulating dot spacers.
- 7. A touch panel as claimed in claim 6, wherein a distance, between each insulating dot spacer and each of the plural and respectively adjacent insulating dot spacers located at respective vertexes of a common orthogonal hexagon, is one of three fixed and different, but substantially equal, distances.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 08/524,575, filed Sep. 7, 1995, now allowed, U.S. Pat. No. 5,640,258.
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Divisions (1)
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