Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Electrical device making
Reexamination Certificate
2011-04-05
2011-04-05
Banks, Derris H (Department: 3729)
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Electrical device making
C029S830000, C029S831000, C029S842000, C427S466000, C427S496000, C427S331000, C156S247000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07918019
ABSTRACT:
A method for fabricating thin DITO or SITO touch sensor panels with a thickness less than a minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment. In one embodiment, a sandwich of two thin glass sheets is formed such that the combined thickness of the glass sheets does not drop below the minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment when thin film process is performed on the surfaces of the sandwich during fabrication. The sandwich may eventually be separated to form two thin SITO/DITO panels. In another embodiment, the fabrication process involves laminating two patterned thick substrates, each having at least the minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment. One or both of the sides of the laminated substrates are then thinned so that when the substrates are separated, each is a thin DITO/SITO panel having a thickness less than the minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment.
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Chang Shih Chang
Hong Seung Jae
Huang Lili
Youngs Lynn
Zhong John Z.
Apple Inc.
Banks Derris H
Morrison & Foerster / LLP
Parvez Azm
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