Display panel

• US 20060029749A1
• Filed: 01/21/2004
• Published: 02/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toray Industries Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Toray Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Hatada, Kenji, Maeda, Kiyoshige, Suda, Masahiro
• Application Number:
  US10/542,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20060029749A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/1.400
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2323/04 Charge transferring layer characterised by chemical composition, i.e. conductive
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133334 Electromagnetic shields
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133606 including a specially adapted diffusing, scattering or light controlling members
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133607 the light controlling member including light directing or refracting elements, e.g. prisms or lenses
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2202/022 polymeric
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/265 1 mil or less
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31504 Composite [nonstructural laminate]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31855 Of addition polymer from unsaturated monomers

Abstract

A display panel wherein an electroconductive polymer layer is arranged between a display unit and a light source of a back light system. The electroconductive polymer layer makes it possible to make coloration or light scattering less than ITO or the like, and further prevent or decrease picture disturbances, such as flickering and stripe drifting, generated remarkably in high resolution pictures such as high-vision pictures, high speed movies, and displays corresponding to large screens by the action of electric waves radiated from the back light system, as noises, onto an operation circuit for the display. As the electroconductive polymer, the following is preferably used: i) a pyrrole, thiophene, furan, selenophene, aniline, para-phenylene or fluorene polymer or copolymer, or a derivative thereof; or ii) a polymer to which solubility or dispersibility is given by introducing a side chain into a thiophene, alkylfluorene, fluorene, para-phenylene or para-phenylenevinylene polymer or copolymer, or a derivative thereof.

Claims

1. A display panel, wherein an electroconductive polymer layer is arranged between a display unit and a light source of a back light system.

2. The display panel according to claim 1, wherein the electroconductive polymer layer is an electroconductive polymer layer stacked on a polymer film.

3. The display panel according to claim 1, wherein the surface resistivity of the electroconductive polymer layer is about 1×

10⁴ Ω

/□

or less, and the total light transmittance thereof is about 80% or more.

4. The display panel according to claim 3, wherein the surface resistivity of the electroconductive polymer layer is about 5×

10³ Ω

/□

or less, and the total light transmittance thereof is about 85% or more.

5. The display panel according to claim 1, wherein the spectral light transmittance at 400 nm wavelength of the electroconductive polymer layer is about 85% or more.

6. The display panel according to claim 1, wherein an electroconductive polymer contained in the electroconductive polymer layer is a polymer selected from the following group i) or ii):

i) pyrrole, thiophene, furan, selenophene, aniline, para-phenylene and fluorene polymers or copolymers, or derivatives thereof; and

ii) polymers to which solubility or dispersibility is given by introducing a side chain into thiophene, alkylfluorene, fluorene, para-phenylene, and para-phenylenevinylene polymers or copolymers, or derivatives thereof.

7. The display panel according to claim 6, wherein the electroconductive polymer is a thiophene polymer or copolymer, or a derivative thereof.

8. The display panel according to claim 7, wherein the thiophene polymer or copolymer, or the derivative thereof is polyethylenedioxythiophene.

9. The display panel according to claim 6, wherein the electroconductive polymer layer further comprises polystyrenesulfonic acid.

10. The display panel according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the electroconductive polymer layer is about 60 nm or more and about 300 nm or less.

11. The display panel according to claim 1, wherein particles are incorporated into the electroconductive polymer layer.

12. The display panel according to claim 1, which further comprises a layer having a light scattering performance.

13. The display panel according to claim 1, which further comprises a layer having a brightness enhancement performance.

14. The display panel according to claim 1, wherein the display unit is a display unit using liquid crystal and the back light system uses a cold cathode fluorescent lighting.

15. A back light system, which uses a cold cathode fluorescent lighting and has an arranged electroconductive polymer layer.