Patent ID: 6909425

Claim:
A touch panel comprising: electrically insulating spacers; a double-faced tape; a pair of relatively fixed and moveable panels, the moveable panel being moveable in response to pressure applied thereto and each panel having a transparent conductive film adhered on a transparent board, the panels being arranged via the electrically insulating spacers so that the respective transparent conductive films of the pair of panels are opposed to each other, one of the transparent conductive films being divided into a plurality of regions of desired forms by channels formed by laser etching, and the pair of panels being joined at respective perimeters thereof via the double-faced tape; and a conductive film damage preventing element made of an elastic material mounted on at least one of the panel and the double-faced tape, so as to cover an area of the transparent conductive film on the movable panel otherwise subject to potentially damaging contact by an edge of the double-faced tape.