In-cell touch panel and display device

• US 10,191,599 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2015
• Issued: 01/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co Ltd. (BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.), BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co Ltd. (BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.), BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Bao, Zhiying, Xu, Rui, Zhao, Weijie, Lv, Zhenhua, Li, Yanchen, Chen, Xi, Wang, Haisheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Yeung, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US14/915,954
• Publication Number:
  US 20160216802A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,257 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 3/04164 Connections between sensors and controllers, e.g. routing lines between electrodes and connection pads
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04166 Details of scanning methods, e.g. sampling time, grouping of sub areas or time sharing with display driving Synchronisation with the driving of the display or the backlighting unit to avoid interferences generated internally G06F3/04184
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0443 using a single layer of sensing electrodes

Abstract

An in-cell touch screen and a display device are provided. In the in-cell touch screens, an insulation layer, in an area that each self-capacitance electrode overlap a wire, is provided with at least a first hole that runs through the insulation layer and each self-capacitance electrode is electrically connected with a corresponding wire via a corresponding first via hole; each self-capacitance electrode, within an area overlapping other wire than the corresponding wire and at a position corresponding to the first via hole, is disposed with a second via hole that runs through the self-capacitance electrode. An orthogonal projection of a second via hole on a lower substrate covers an orthogonal projection of a first via hole on the lower substrate. The in-cell touch screen can solve a problem of uneven image display due to nonuniform distribution of via holes in an insulation layer.

Claims

1. An in-cell touch screen, comprising:

an upper substrate and a lower substrate that are provided opposite to each other;

a plurality of mutually independent self-capacitance electrodes disposed on a side, facing the lower substrate, of the upper substrate, or disposed on aside, facing the upper substrate, of the lower substrate;

wires that are disposed on a different layer from the self-capacitance electrodes and electrically connected correspondingly with the self-capacitance electrodes in a one-to-one manner; and

an insulation layer that is provided between the self-capacitance electrodes and the wires;

wherein the mutually independent self-capacitance electrodes comprise at least one first self-capacitance electrode that overlaps at least two of the wires, and the at least two of the wires comprise a first wire that is connected with the first self-capacitance electrode and at least one second wire that is not connected with the first self-capacitance electrode;

the insulation layer, in an area where the first self-capacitance electrode overlaps each of the at least two wires, is provided with at least one first via hole running through the insulation layer, and the first self-capacitance electrode is electrically connected with the first wire through the at least one first via hole overlapping the first wire;

the first self-capacitance electrode is provided with a second via hole which overlaps each of the at least one second wire, and the at least one second via hole runs through the first self-capacitance electrode, and an orthogonal projection of the second via hole on the lower substrate covers an orthogonal projection of the at least one first via holes overlapping each of the at least one second wire.

2. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 1, wherein shapes and sizes of first via holes of the first self-capacitance electrode are the same.

3. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 1, wherein the at least two of the wires comprise a third wire that is not overlapped with the first self-capacitance electrode, another second via hole is also disposed within an area of the first self-capacitance electrode overlapping an extending line of the third wire.

4. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 1, wherein a diameter of the first via hole is less than a width of the first wire overlapping the first via hole, and a diameter of the second via hole is less than a width of the second wire overlapping the second via hole.

5. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 1, further comprising:

a conductive base block that is disposed on a same layer as the respective wires and corresponds to each first via hole, and an orthogonal projection of the conductive base block on the lower substrate covers the orthogonal projection of the second via hole on the lower substrate;

each of the wires is connected with a corresponding one of the mutually self-capacitance electrodes via a corresponding conductive base block.

6. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 1, wherein the wires extend in a same direction and lengths of the wires are the same.

7. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of mutually independent self-capacitance electrodes are arranged in an array and the wires extends in a column direction or a row direction.

8. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 1, wherein as for each of the first self-capacitance electrode, a distribution rule of the first via hole located within an area that the self-capacitance electrode overlaps the second wire is the same as that of the first via hole within an area that the first self-capacitance electrode overlaps the first wire.

9. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 1, wherein as for each of the wires, a distance between any two adjacent first via holes both having an overlapped area with each of the wires is the same.

10. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of mutually independent self-capacitance electrodes is disposed on a same layer.

11. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 10, wherein in the case where the self-capacitance electrodes are disposed in a common electrode layer on the side, facing the upper substrate, of the lower substrate, the in-cell touch screen further comprise:

a touch detection chip;

the touch detection chip is configured to apply a common electrode signal on the respective self-capacitance electrodes in a display period and determine a touch position by detecting variation of capacitance value of the respective self-capacitance electrodes in a touching period.

12. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 1, further comprising:

data lines located below the self-capacitance electrodes, wherein the respective wires and the data lines are disposed on a same layer and formed of same material.

13. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 1, further comprising:

a black matrix layer on the side, facing the upper substrate, of the lower substrate or on the side, facing the lower substrate, of the upper substrate;

an orthogonal projection of a pattern of the respective wires is located within an area that a pattern of the black matrix layer is located;

or an orthogonal projection of a pattern of the second via hole on the lower substrate is located within an area that the pattern of the black matrix is located.

14. A display device, comprising the in-cell touch screen according to claim 1.

15. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 5, wherein the plurality of mutually independent self-capacitance electrodes are arranged in an array and the wires extends in a column direction or a row direction.

16. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 5, wherein as for each of the first self-capacitance electrode, a distribution rule of the first via hole located within an area that the first self-capacitance electrode overlaps the second wire is the same as that of the first via hole within an area that the fit self-capacitance electrode overlaps the first wire.

17. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 5, wherein the plurality of mutually independent self-capacitance electrodes is disposed on a same layer.

18. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 17, wherein in the case where the self-capacitance electrodes are disposed in a common electrode layer on the side, facing the upper substrate, of the lower substrate, the in-cell touch screen further comprise:

a touch detection chip;

the touch detection chip is configured to apply a common electrode signal on the respective self-capacitance electrodes in a display period and determine a touch position by detecting variation of capacitance value of the respective self-capacitance electrodes in a touching period.

19. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 18, further comprising:

a black matrix layer on the side, facing the upper substrate, of the lower substrate or on the side, facing the lower substrate, of the upper substrate;

an orthogonal projection of a pattern of the respective wires is located within an area that a pattern of the black matrix layer is located;

or an orthogonal projection of a pattern of the second via hole on the lower substrate is located within an area that the pattern of the black matrix is located.

20. The in-cell touch screen according to claim 1, wherein the first self-capacitance electrode is not connected with the at least a second wire through the second via hole.