Touch control display device and a preparation method thereof

• US 10,185,430 B2
• Filed: 12/25/2014
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kunshan New Flat Panel Display Technology Center Co. Ltd., Kunshan Govisionox Optoelectronics Co., Ltd (Visionox Technology, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Kunshan New Flat Panel Display Technology Center Co. Ltd., Kunshan Govisionox Optoelectronics Co., Ltd (Visionox Technology, Inc.)
• Inventors: Zhu, Shaopeng, Qiu, Yong, Hirayama, Hideo, Huang, Xiuqi
• Primary Examiner(s): Amadiz, Rodney
• Application Number:
  US15/107,285
• Publication Number:
  US 20170003800A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,489 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3262 Power saving in digitizer or tablet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04102 Flexible digitiser, i.e. constructional details for allowing the whole digitising part of a device to be flexed or rolled like a sheet of paper
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04103 Manufacturing, i.e. details related to manufacturing processes specially suited for touch sensitive devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04111 Cross over in capacitive digitiser, i.e. details of structures for connecting electrodes of the sensing pattern where the connections cross each other, e.g. bridge structures comprising an insulating layer, or vias through substrate
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0443 using a single layer of sensing electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0446 using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2102/311 Flexible OLED
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/12 Active-matrix OLED [AMOLED] displays
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/131 Interconnections, e.g. wiring lines or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/40 OLEDs integrated with touch screens

Abstract

As in a touch control display device of the present invention, when second electrodes are formed, the second electrodes are connected in series respectively in the horizontal row direction and in the vertical column direction, so as to form a cross network with rows and columns insulated from one another, namely to form a touch control sensing layer. By integrating a touch control function into organic light-emitting diodes, a compact structure of the device is achieved, there is no need to set up a separate touch control component, the light emitting efficiency is high, and the respond speed is fast. As in a preparation method of the touch control display device of the present invention, second electrodes are formed into such a structure that the second electrodes are connected in series respectively in the horizontal row direction and in the vertical column direction, therefore, when organic light-emitting diodes are prepared, a touch control function can be integrated therein at the same time by means of technically mature photo-etching and etching techniques, which is a simple preparation method with low process cost.

Claims

1. A touch control display device, comprising

a substrate, and

a plurality of organic light-emitting diodes arranged on the substrate, each of which including a first electrode, an organic material layer and a second electrode stacked in sequence;

characterized in that,

the first electrodes are arranged to be separated from each other, the second electrodes are respectively connected in series to form a plurality of first conductive stripes arranged in parallel and a plurality of second conductive stripes arranged in parallel, and the first conductive stripes and the second conductive stripes are configured to be insulated from each other and to form a cross network which constitutes a touch control structure,

the first conductive stripes are formed by the second electrodes arranged along a first direction and connected in series in the same layer,

the second conductive stripes are formed by the second electrodes arranged along a second direction and connected in series through conductive bridges outside the organic light-emitting diodes, wherein, the conductive bridges are arranged on the substrate and are insulated from the organic light-emitting diodes by an insulation layer covered directly upon the conductive bridges, and the second electrodes forming each of the second conductive stripes are connected to the conductive bridges directly via through holes formed in the insulation layer.

2. The touch control display device in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that, the conductive bridges are metal bridges.

3. The touch control display device in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that, the conductive bridges each have a thickness of 10 nm-1000 nm.

4. The touch control display device in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that, a pixel defining layer for separating adjacent organic light-emitting diodes is provided on the substrate.

5. The touch control display device in accordance with claim 4, characterized in that, a separating pillar layer for separating adjacent stripes of the first conductive stripes and the second conductive stripes is provided directly upon the pixel limiting layer.

6. The touch control display device in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that, the second electrodes have a thickness of 1 nm-500 nm.

7. The touch control display device in accordance with claim 1, characterized in further comprising a plurality of drive thin film transistors arranged on the substrate, each of the first electrodes is connected to a source electrode or a drain electrode of one of the drive thin film transistors.

8. A preparation method of the touch control display device in accordance with claim 1, characterized in comprising the following steps:

S1, forming a first conductive layer on the substrate, and this first conductive layer is patterned into a plurality of conductive bridges arranged in parallel in a second direction;

S2, forming an insulation layer on the substrate, wherein, the insulation layer is arranged to cover the conductive bridges and has through holes provided therein for forming conductive connections with the conductive bridges;

S3, forming first electrodes directly upon the insulation layer which are arranged to be separated from one another, and forming an organic material layer on each of the first electrodes;

S4, forming second electrodes on the organic material layer, wherein the second electrodes arranged along a first direction are connected in series in the same layer so as to form a plurality of first conductive stripes in parallel, and the second electrodes arranged along the second direction are connected in series by being connected to the conductive bridges directly via the through holes so as to form a plurality of second conductive stripes in parallel, the first conductive stripes and the second conductive stripes are insulated from each other and form a cross network which constitutes a touch control structure.

9. The preparation method in accordance with claim 8, characterized in that, in the step S3, after forming the first electrodes, the method further comprises forming a pixel limiting layer that surrounds the first electrodes on the substrate.

10. The preparation method in accordance with claim 9, characterized in that, in the step S3, the method further comprises forming a separating pillar layer directly upon the pixel limiting layer;

and adjacent stripes of the first conductive stripes and the second conductive stripes formed in the step S4 are separated by the separating pillar layer.

11. The preparation method in accordance with claim 8, characterized in that, in the step S2, an intersection angle between the axial direction of the through hole and the substrate is 10°

-90°

.