Patent ID: 9410824
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: G01D,G06F,H01Q

Claim Text:
1. A position detection sensor comprising: a detection area and a disabled area on a substrate, the disabled area placed peripheral to the detection area to define an edge of the position detection sensor; and T number of coils (T is 3 or more) wherein each coil includes multiple turns formed by winding a conductor, wherein each turn of each coil has two elongate sections wherein a first elongate section is positioned closer to the edge than a second elongate section, wherein the coils are arranged at a predefined pitch (P) along a defined direction from the edge that intersects the first elongate section and the second elongate section, and wherein the coils include a 1st coil closest to the edge, one or more Mth coil(s) adjacent to the 1st coil where M =2, . . , T−1 and M identifies the position of a coil from the 1st coil, and a Tth coil farthest from the edge; wherein the first elongate section of each turn of the 1st coil is located in the disabled area, the second elongate section of each turn of the 1st coil is located in the detection area, at least one Mth coil includes at least one turn having a width W the second elongate sections of the turns having the width W the first elongate section of the at least one turn having the width W