Optical waveguide for touch panel and touch panel using the same

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PATENT NO 8442366
APP PUB NO 20120177320A1
SERIAL NO

13337385

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Provided are an optical waveguide for a touch panel which has high light-gathering power on a light-emitting side and which may materialize a touch panel having excellent position detection performance, and a touch panel using the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide for a touch panel includes: cores; and an over cladding layer covers the cores, the cores including light-emitting cores each formed as a lens portion having a shape in plan view including a tapered portion whose width gradually increases toward an end surface on the light-emitting side and an elliptical arc portion which bulges outwardly a tip side of the tapered portion having the gradually-increasing width so as to be in a shape of an elliptical arc, the elliptical arc portion having a major axis direction aligned in a longitudinal direction of the tapered portion.

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NITTO DENKO CORPORATION1-1-2 SHIMOHOZUMI IBARAKI-SHI OSAKA 5678680 ?5678680

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Shibata, Naoki Ibaraki, JP 213 3274

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