Touch panel and electronic device using the same

• US 20050046622A1
• Filed: 08/23/2004
• Published: 03/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakanishi, Akira, Takabatake, Kenichi, Fujii, Shigeyuki
• Application Number:
  US10/922,916
• Publication Number:
  US 20050046622A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/045 using resistive elements, e.g. a single continuous surface or two parallel surfaces put in contact

Abstract

The invention presents a touch panel disposed at the display screen side of a liquid crystal display device or the like, and excellent in surface smoothness and environmental resistance. In marginal outer circumferential part 400B for adhering and fixing first transparent substrate 21 and second transparent substrate 31 face to face, insulating layer 27 for correction of step difference is disposed in order to make uniform the film thickness. Adhesive layer 29 is disposed on insulating layer 27, and first transparent substrate 21 and second transparent substrate 31 are adhered to each other. As a result, the adhesion fixing state if stabilized, and the adhesion strength is enhanced, and a touch panel suitable for car-mount unit excellent in surface smoothness and environmental resistance can be presented.

Claims

1. A touch panel comprising a first transparent substrate forming a first transparent conductive film on the upside, a second transparent substrate forming a second transparent conductive film on the downside, and marginal outer circumferential parts for adhering the transparent substrates mutually while keeping the conductive films face to face across a specified interval, wherein a correction insulating layer for correcting step difference in the marginal outer circumferential parts is interposed in the marginal outer circumferential parts, an adhesive layer is formed at the position correcting the step difference by the insulating layer, and the first transparent substrate and second transparent substrate are adhered by the adhesive layer.

2. The touch panel of claim 1, wherein a connector for connection with external device is connected to either one of the first transparent substrate and second transparent substrate, and the other substrate not having the connector has a notch for releasing the outer shape of the connector, and at the notch side and its opposite side, electrodes of transparent conductive films of the substrates are disposed.

3. The touch panel of claim 1, wherein a connector for connection with external device is connected to either one of the first transparent substrate and second transparent substrate, and an electric connection conductor to be electrically connected to the electrode of the transparent conductive film of other substrate is disposed only at the connector connected side.

4. The touch panel of claim 1, wherein a connector for connection with external device is enclosed between the first transparent substrate and second transparent substrate.

5. The touch panel of claim 1, wherein a connector for connection with external device is of double sided substrate type, and is enclosed between the first transparent substrate and second transparent substrate, and wiring patterns drawn out from the electrodes of transparent conductive films of the substrate are electrically connected respectively to the wiring parts disposed at both sides of the connector.

6. The touch panel of claim 1, wherein a polarizer or circular polarizer is disposed on the second transparent substrate.

12. An electronic device having a touch panel of claim 1, disposed at the display screen side of a display device, wherein a specified signal obtained by operation of this touch panel is judged in a control circuit.

7. A touch panel comprising a first transparent substrate forming a first transparent conductive film on the upside, a second transparent substrate forming a second transparent conductive film on the downside, a connector connected to at least one of the first transparent substrate and second transparent substrate, and a protective layer applied on the connection area of the connector, wherein the protective layer is not in contact with the transparent substrate not adhered to the connector out of the first transparent substrate and second transparent substrate.

8. The touch panel of claim 7, wherein an insulating layer for correcting step difference is interposed in marginal outer circumferential parts, in marginal outer circumferential parts for adhering the first transparent substrate and second transparent substrate, an adhesive layer is formed at the position corrected of step difference by the insulating layer, and the first transparent substrate and second transparent substrate are adhered by means of the adhesive layer.

9. The touch panel of claim 7, wherein the transparent substrate not adhered to the connector of the first transparent substrate and second transparent substrate has a notch so as not to contact with the protective layer applied around the compression area of the connector.

10. The touch panel of claim 7, wherein the distance between the connector and the transparent substance not adhered to the connector of the first transparent substrate and second transparent substrate is set at 2 mm or more.

11. The touch panel of claim 7, wherein the projective layer around the adhesion area of the connector is made of material of JIS K 7117-2, and formed of a coating agent of cold setting or thermosetting resin with viscosity of 0.7 Pa.s or more.

13. An electronic device having a touch panel of claim 7, disposed at the display screen side of a display device, wherein a specified signal obtained by operation of this touch panel is judged in a control circuit.