Patent ID: 9430113
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An electrically-conductive article comprising a transparent substrate having a first supporting side and an opposing second supporting side, the first supporting side comprising: an electrically-conductive silver connector wire pattern, and optionally, transparent regions outside of the electrically-conductive silver connector wire pattern, wherein: (i) the electrically-conductive silver connector wire pattern comprises at least one silver main wire that comprises two or more silver micro-wires that are electrically connected to a silver end wire at an end of the at least one silver main wire, the silver micro-wires and the silver end wire in the at least one silver main wire forming a bundled pattern, each silver micro-wire having an average width of at least 0.5 μm and up to and including 10 μm; (ii) the average length of each silver micro-wire is at least 1 mm; (iii) the ratio of the average width of each silver micro-wire to the average distance between any two adjacent silver micro-wires in each bundled pattern is at least 0.5:1 but less than 2:1; and (iv) the electrically-conductive silver connector wire pattern has an integrated transmittance of less than 68%.