Touch display device

• US 10,430,000 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2017
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
• Original Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
• Inventors: Wu, Yuan-Lin, Yueh, Jui-Jen, Lin, Hsiao-Lang
• Primary Examiner(s): Cerullo, Liliana
• Application Number:
  US15/453,907
• Publication Number:
  US 20180039352A1
• Time in Patent Office: 936 Days
• 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 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0443 using a single layer of sensing electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0445 using two or more layers of sensing electrodes, e.g. using two layers of electrodes separated by a dielectric layer
• 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 59/131 Interconnections, e.g. wiring lines or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/40 OLEDs integrated with touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 77/111 Flexible substrates
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/549 Organic PV cells

Abstract

A touch display device including a substrate, a first touch electrode, a display layer and an insulating layer is provided. The substrate includes a first bending portion. The first touch electrode is disposed over the substrate. Over the first bending portion of the substrate, the display layer is disposed between the substrate and the first touch electrode, and the insulating layer is disposed between the display layer and the first touch electrode.

Claims

1. A touch display device, comprising:

a substrate comprising a first bending portion;

a first touch electrode disposed on the substrate;

a display layer disposed on the substrate; and

an insulating layer disposed on the substrate,

wherein over the first bending portion of the substrate, the display layer is disposed between the substrate and the first touch electrode, and the insulating layer is disposed between the display layer and the first touch electrode; and

a transmission line connected to the first touch electrode, wherein the transmission line comprises;

a first trace portion disposed on the substrate and at least partially overlapping the insulating layer;

a second trace portion disposed on the insulating layer; and

a plurality of connection portions disposed between the first trace portion and the second trace portion and passing through the insulating layer, wherein the connection portions are disposed on the first bending portion of the substrate;

wherein a portion of the first trace portion extends between two adjacent connection portions and a portion of the second trace portion extends between the two adjacent connection portions.

2. The touch display device according to claim 1, further comprising a second touch electrode, wherein the second touch electrode is disposed between the insulating layer and the substrate over the first bending portion of the substrate.

3. The touch display device according to claim 2, wherein the display layer comprises a first electrode, a second electrode on the first electrode, and a light emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the second touch electrode has the same material as the second electrode.

4. The touch display device according to claim 1, wherein the first bending portion of the substrate has at least two curvatures.

5. The touch display device according to claim 1, wherein the substrate further comprises a main portion, the first bending portion is located at a side of the main portion, and a greatest curvature of the first bending portion is greater than a greatest curvature of the main portion.

6. The touch display device according to claim 5, wherein the substrate further comprises a second bending portion located at another side of the main portion, and a greatest curvature of the second bending portion is greater than a greatest curvature of the main portion.

7. The touch display device according to claim 5, wherein the display layer, the first touch electrode, and the insulating layer are further disposed over the main portion.

8. The touch display device according to claim 5, wherein the first touch electrode comprises a plurality of first sensing pads extending along a first direction, a plurality of first bridges and a plurality of second bridges, wherein the first sensing pads are connected by the first bridges in the bending portion, the first sensing pads are connected by the second bridges in the main portion, and at least one of the first bridges has an extending direction different from an extending direction of at least one of the second bridges.

9. The touch display device according to claim 8, wherein the extending direction of the first bridge is different from a bending direction of the bending portion.

10. The touch display device according to claim 1, wherein the display layer includes a driving layer, and the driving layer includes a gate and a source/drain, wherein the first trace portion has the same material as the gate or the source/drain.

11. The touch display device according to claim 1, wherein the display layer includes a display medium layer, and the display medium layer includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the first trace portion has the same material as the first electrode or the second electrode.

12. The touch display device according to claim 1, wherein the insulating layer comprises an organic layer, and an inorganic layer disposed between the first touch electrode and the organic layer.

13. The touch display device according to claim 12, wherein the organic layer covers a side edge of a display medium layer of the display layer, and the inorganic layer covers a side edge of the organic layer.

14. The touch display device according to claim 12, wherein a greatest thickness of the organic layer is a first thickness, a greatest thickness of the inorganic layer is a second thickness, and the first thickness is greater than the second thickness.