Patent ID: 7659889

Claim:
A touch panel device, comprising: a substrate; a first sender element for sending a first surface acoustic wave, which is placed along a first direction on the substrate; a second sender element for sending a second surface acoustic wave, which is placed along a second direction, orthogonal to the first direction, on the substrate; a receiver element for directly receiving the second surface acoustic wave from the second sender element, which is placed along the second direction on the substrate to face the transmission side of the second sender element with an interval in between; and a reflector, which is placed on the substrate, for achieving the receiver element's reception of the first surface acoustic wave from the first sender element by reflecting the first surface acoustic wave from the first sender element, wherein a position of a contact body touching on a contact surface is detected by transmitting the first and second surface acoustic waves that are sent from the first and second sender elements through the contact surface and receiving the first and second surface acoustic waves on the receiver element.