What is claimed is:
1. A touch panel for a display device having a driver IC, comprising:
upper and lower substrates;
first and second transparent electrodes on opposing surfaces of the upper and lower substrates;
a plurality of metal electrodes in a circumference of the first and second transparent electrodes; and
a flexible printed cable having a plurality of signal applying lines extended from the upper and lower substrates to a rear side of the display device for applying signal voltages to the metal electrodes, wherein the flexible printed cable is bent at a corner of the upper and lower substrates from a top to a bottom of the display device, and has a first part extended from the corner of the display device and a second part extended from the first part and the first and second parts being perpendicular to each other.
2. The touch panel of claim 1, wherein the flexible printed cable has a plurality of through-holes before the flexible printed cable overlaps the driver IC.
3. The touch panel of claim 1, wherein the signal applying lines of the lower surface of the flexible printed cable are disposed on the upper surface of the flexible printed cable.
4. The touch panel of claim 1, wherein the flexible printed cable extends through the driver IC of the display device to be connected to a printed circuit board.
5. The touch panel of claim 3, wherein the signal applying lines for applying signals to the metal electrodes on the upper substrate are printed on the upper surface of the flexible printed cable, and the signal applying lines for applying signals to the metal electrodes on the lower substrate are printed on the lower surface of the flexible printed cable.
6. The touch panel of claim 1, wherein the metal electrodes include:
first and second metal electrodes being electrically connected to the first transparent electrode in the circumference of the first transparent electrode along the X-axis direction, and
third and fourth metal electrodes being electrically connected to the second transparent electrode in the circumference of the upper and lower sides on the second transparent electrode along the Y-axis direction.
7. The touch panel of claim 6, wherein the first, second, third, and fourth metal electrodes are connected to the first, second, third, and fourth signal applying lines.
8. The touch panel of claim 1, wherein the display device is a liquid crystal display device.
9. A method of fabricating a touch panel for a display device having a driver IC, comprising:
forming upper and lower substrates;
forming first and second transparent electrodes on opposing surfaces of the upper and lower substrates;
forming a plurality of metal electrodes in a circumference of the first and second transparent electrodes; and
forming a flexible printed cable having a plurality of signal applying lines extended from the upper and lower substrates to a rear side of the display device for applying signal voltages to the metal electrodes, wherein the flexible printed cable is bent at a corner of the upper and lower substrates from a top to a bottom of the display device, and has a first part extended from the corner of the display device and a second part extended from the first part and the first and second parts being perpendicular to each other.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the flexible printed cable has a plurality of through-holes before the flexible printed cable overlaps the driver IC.
11. The touch panel of claim 9, wherein the signal applying lines of the lower surface of the flexible printed cable are disposed on the upper surface of the flexible printed cable.
12. The touch panel of claim 9, wherein the flexible printed cable extends through the driver IC of the display device to be connected to a printed circuit board.
13. The touch panel of claim 11, wherein the signal applying lines for applying signals to the metal electrodes on the upper substrate are printed on the upper surface of the flexible printed cable, and the signal applying lines for applying signals to the metal electrodes on the lower substrate are printed on the lower surface of the flexible printed cable.
14. The touch panel of claim 9, wherein the metal electrodes include:
first and second metal electrodes being electrically connected to the first transparent electrode in the circumference of the first transparent electrode along the X-axis direction, and
third and fourth metal electrodes being electrically connected to the second transparent electrode in the circumference of the upper and lower sides on the second transparent electrode along the Y-axis direction.
15. The touch panel of claim 14, wherein the first, second, third, and fourth metal electrodes are connected to the first, second, third, and fourth signal applying lines.
16. The touch panel of claim 9, wherein the display device is a liquid crystal display device.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. Feeding device for transporting products which are provided to the feeding device in groups, said feeding device comprising:
first and second conveyor belts which are arranged in the direction of transport one behind the other, wherein a first group of products can be transferred from the first conveyor belt to the second conveyor belt; and
a control unit which is functionally connected with the first and second conveyor belts, wherein the control unit is operable to accelerate the first conveyor belt independently of the second conveyor belt and can synchronize an acceleration andor speed of the first conveyor belt with an acceleration andor speed of second conveyor belt;
wherein the control unit accelerates said first conveyor belt when the first group of products has been transferred to the second conveyor belt and a second group of products is disposed on the first conveyor belt to reduce a gap distance between the first and second groups of products;
wherein the feeding device comprises a third conveyor belt disposed behind the second conveyor belt in the direction of transport, the third conveyor belt being configured to receive the products from the second conveyor belt; and
wherein the first, second, and third conveyor belts may be moved synchronously and independently.
2. Feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the first conveyor belt can be functionally coupled to a conveyor belt of a preceding machine.
3. Feeding device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit can synchronize the speed of the first conveyor belt with a speed of the conveyor belt of the preceding machine.
4. Feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the first and second conveyor belts can be synchronously accelerated together by the control unit when the last product of a respective group, seen in the direction of transport, has been transferred to the third conveyor belt and a further, subsequent group of products has arrived at least on the first conveyor belt.
5. Feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the first conveyor belt is essentially as long as the second and third conveyor belts together.
6. Feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the second conveyor belt is longer than the third conveyor belt.
7. Feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the first conveyor belt is longer than each of the second or third conveyor belt.
8. Feeding device according to claim 1, characterized in that a length of the first, second andor third conveyor belt is variable.
9. Feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the feeding device comprises a picker which is designed to discharge the products onto a picker belt.
10. Feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the first conveyor belt can be intermittently moved by the control unit.
11. Method of operating a feeding device comprising the following steps:
providing a feeding device including first and second conveyor belts which are arranged in a direction of transport one behind the other, wherein a first group of products can be transferred from the first conveyor belt to the second conveyor belt;
receiving the first group of products on a first conveyor belt;
transferring the first group of products from the first conveyor belt to the second conveyor belt;
receiving a second group of products on the first conveyor belt; and
accelerating the first conveyor belt after the first group of products has been transferred to the second conveyor belt and the second group of products has been received on the first conveyor belt;
reducing a gap distance between the first and second groups of products by said accelerating step;
transferring the first group of products from the second conveyor belt to a third conveyor belt of the feeding device which is disposed behind the second conveyor belt in the direction of transport; and
synchronously accelerating the first and second conveyor belts-when the last product of a respective group, seen in the direction of transport, has been transferred to the third conveyor belt, and a further, subsequent group of products has arrived at least on the first conveyor belt.
12. Method according to claim 11, further comprising synchronously accelerating the first, the second and third conveyor belts when the last product of a respective group, seen in the direction of transport, has been discharged by the third conveyor belt, and a further, subsequent group of products has arrived at least on the first conveyor belt.
13. Feeding device for transporting products which are provided to the feeding device in groups, said feeding device comprising:
first and second conveyor belts which are arranged in the direction of transport one behind the other, wherein a first group of products can be transferred from the first conveyor belt to the second conveyor belt;
a third conveyor belt disposed behind the second conveyor belt in the direction of transport, the third conveyor belt being configured to receive the products from the second conveyor belt, wherein a length of the first, second andor third conveyor belt is variable; and
a control unit which is functionally connected with the first and second conveyor belts, wherein the control unit is configured such that it can accelerate the first conveyor belt independently of the second conveyor belt and can synchronize an acceleration andor speed of the first conveyor belt with an acceleration andor speed of second conveyor belt;
wherein the first conveyor belt can be accelerated by the control unit when the first group of products has been transferred to the second conveyor belt, and a further, second group of products has arrived on the first conveyor belt to reduce a gap distance between the first and second groups of products.