Touch sensor unit and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10756733-B2
Application number	US-201816175852-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 31, 2018
Priority date	Nov 15, 2017
Publication date	Aug 25, 2020
Grant date	Aug 25, 2020

Abstract

A first separator that prevents a pair of electrodes from short-circuiting each other is provided on end parts of the pair of electrodes in a longitudinal direction thereof, a first molded resin part that covers the first separator is provided on an end part of an insulation tube in a longitudinal direction thereof, a part of the first separator) on one side in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction and another part of the first separator on the other side in the direction intersecting the longitudinal direction are each exposed to outside. When the first separator is embedded in the first molded resin part through insert molding, the first separator can be supported by a lower mold and an upper mold, portions of the first separator supported by the pair of molds at this time are portions exposed to outside.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A touch sensor unit that is used to detect a contact of an obstacle, the touch sensor unit comprising:
a hollow insulation tube that is elastically deformed by application of an external force;
a plurality of electrodes that are provided in the insulation tube and come in contact with each other due to elastic deformation of the insulation tube;
an insulation member that is provided on end parts of the plurality of electrodes in a longitudinal direction of the electrodes and prevents the plurality of electrodes from short-circuiting each other; and
a molded resin part that is provided on an end part of the insulation tube in a longitudinal direction of the insulation tube and covers the insulation member,
wherein the insulation member comprises a housing body part which is formed in a substantial bath tub shape, and a tip side of the housing body part becomes tapered in the longitudinal direction,
wherein the housing body part comprises a first bottom wall part disposed on a proximal end side in the longitudinal direction, a second bottom wall part disposed on the tip side in the longitudinal direction and a side wall part integrally disposed around the first bottom wall part and the second bottom wall part to stand up with respect to the first bottom wall part and the second bottom wall part,
wherein a recess part receding toward an inner side from an outer side of the housing body part is provided in the first bottom wall part and exposed to outside from the molded resin part, and exposed parts provided on the second bottom wall part and a partition wall part provided in the housing body part are exposed to outside from the molded resin part.

2. The touch sensor unit according to claim 1 ,
wherein an engagement part extending in the direction intersecting the longitudinal direction of the insulation member and having a non-circular cross-sectional shape in the longitudinal direction of the insulation member is provided in the insulation member.

Assignees

• Mitsuba Corp

Inventors

• Okada Mitsuhiro
• Kubota Hideki
• Shoda Minori
• Yamauchi Koji
• Orihara Yasuhiro
• Oikawa Takabumi

Classifications

• H03K17/965

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• H01H3/142

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• E05F15/44

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• H03K17/975

  using a capacitive movable element · CPC title

• E05Y2900/531

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