Patent ID: 7187109

Claim:
An electrical component, comprising: a number N>2 of first electrodes and the number N of second electrodes allocated to and situated above the first electrodes; one of the first electrodes and the second electrode allocated to the one first electrode respectively forming together an electrode pair that comprises an overlap area; each first electrode having at least two edges situated opposite one another forming a first edge pair; each second electrode having at least two edges situated opposite one another forming a second edge pair; the first and the second edge pairs crossing in crossing areas; for all N electrode pairs at least in the respective crossing area, the edges of the first edge pair are oriented parallel to a first preferred direction and comprise parallel segments having a length L per segment, at least in the respective crossing area the edges of the second edge pair are oriented parallel to a second preferred direction and comprise parallel segments having the length L per segment, a surface of the overlap area is invariable against a displacement of the two electrodes relative to one another by an amount ≦β, and along each line parallel to the first preferred direction and parallel to the second preferred direction the following holds: |L−L′|≧β, where L′ is the distance, measured in the respective direction, between the outer edges, situated opposite one another of the overlap area, and L is the distance, measured in the respective direction between the outer edges, situated opposite one another, of the electrode extending beyond the overlap area in the respective direction; the first electrode comprising partial electrodes connected with one another, the partial electrodes of the first electrode having inner edges facing inwardly; the second electrode comprising partial electrodes connected with one another, the partial electrodes of the second electrode having inner edges facing inwardly: b 1 is a distance measured between the inner edges of the first electrode in a direction X; b 2 is a distance measured between the inner edges of the second electrode in the direction X; and for the direction X and parallel to said direction |b 1 −b 2 |≧β.