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A method for inspecting the strips of a touch panel is disclosed. The method includes providing a first signal to a first driven first strip of a plurality of first strips and generating a plurality of continuous first differences according to signals on a plurality of second strips; providing the first signal to the first driven first strip and a second driven first strip of the plurality of first strips and generating a plurality of continuous second differences according to the signals on the plurality of second strips; and determining if there is a broken second strip between the first and second driven first strips based on the continuous first and second differences. Herein, the plurality of first and second strips intersect each other on the touch panel to form a plurality of intersecting regions.

Provided is an operation status diagnosing device for an external control means, which is enabled by a simple constitution to perform the transmission of the drive status of an external control means constituted of either a relay contact to be activated by an ON / OFF signal or an ON / OFF means made of a semiconductor, and the transmission of a signal indicating the occurrence of troubles such as disconnection or shorting of a wiring line and the transmission of an electric power by a common means, thereby to prevent the rise of a production cost due to the increase in a parts count or the complexity of a circuit constitution and to diagnose the transmission of the signal and the soundness of the circuit precisely. The operation status diagnosing device for the external control means is constituted to comprise a second switch circuit for turning ON / OFF an alternating voltage generating means output in response to the drive signal of the external control means, thereby to apply that output to an insulating transformer primary side, a first switch circuit serving as an external control means connected with an insulating transformer secondary side, so that it is turned ON / OFF by the second switch circuit, an external control means operation status detecting circuit connected with the insulating transformer secondary side, so that an electric current flows therethrough when the first switch circuit is ON, and a measuring means connected with the second switch circuit, for measuring the electric current to flow to the insulating transformer primary side.