DISPLAY PANEL SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY APPRATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY PANEL SUBSTRATE

• US 20100013785A1
• Filed: 12/17/2007
• Published: 01/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Chikama, Yoshimasa, Murai, Atsuhito, Takahashi, Kazuki
• Application Number:
  US12/519,051
• Publication Number:
  US 20100013785A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04146 using pressure sensitive conductive elements delivering a boolean signal and located between crossing sensing lines, e.g. located between X and Y sensing line layers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/047 using sets of wires, e.g. crossed wires

Abstract

A display panel substrate according to the present invention includes at least an insulating substrate, first conductive wires formed on the insulating substrate, a piezoelectric material film formed on the first conductive wires, second conductive wires intersecting with the first conductive wires, and a protecting film for protecting the first conductive wires, the second conductive wires, and the piezoelectric material film. The insulating film is formed at least in an area in an effective display area on the insulating substrate. The piezoelectric film is formed at least at an intersection of a first conductive wire and a second conductive wire. This makes it possible to provide a display panel substrate that allows integration of a touch panel function into a display panel without causing an increase in size of the display panel.

Claims

1. A display panel substrate that constitutes a display panel, comprising:

an insulating substrate;

first conductive wires formed on the insulating substrate;

a piezoelectric film formed on the first conductive wires and the insulating substrate so as to be at least in an effective display area of the insulating substrate;

second conductive wires intersecting with the first conductive wires via the piezoelectric film; and

an insulating film for protecting the first and second conductive wires and the piezoelectric film at least in the effective display area of the insulating substrate.

2. The display panel substrate as set forth in claim 1, wherein the piezoelectric film has an opening at least in a part of an area surrounded by two first conductive wires and two second conductive wires.

3. The display panel substrate as set forth in claim 1, wherein at least either of the first conductive wires or the second conductive wires include a conductive material film having an area exposed toward a display/viewing surface and made of at least one selected from chrome, chrome oxide, tantalum, and tantalum nitride.

4. The display panel substrate as set forth in claim 1, wherein a light-blocking film is formed in a lower position corresponding to an area shaped into a reticular pattern by the first conductive wires and the second conductive wires.

5. The display panel substrate as set forth in claim 4, wherein the light-blocking film is a black resist made of an organic resin.

6. The display panel substrate as set forth in claim 1, wherein a plurality of color filters are formed over light transmission areas at least in the effective display area of the insulating substrate.

7. The display panel substrate as set forth in claim 6, wherein the plurality of color filters are formed as the insulating film.

8. The display panel substrate as set forth in claim 1, wherein the insulating substrate is a flexible substrate containing a plastic material.

9. The display panel substrate as set forth in claim 1, wherein the insulating substrate has a light-transmitting property.

10. The display panel substrate as set forth in claim 1, wherein the insulating substrate has a circuit provided thereon for driving the display panel.

11. The display panel substrate as set forth in claim 1, further comprising coordinate finding circuits that detect a voltage signal generated by pressing force and specify coordinates of a pushed position in accordance with the voltage signal thus detected.

12. A display panel comprising a display panel substrate as set forth in claim 1.

14. The display panel as set forth in claim 12, further comprising:

another substrate facing the display panel substrate; and

a plurality of photo spacers for controlling a gap between the display panel substrate and the another substrate, wherein

each of the photo spacers is provided in a position corresponding to a position on the display panel substrate in which position the piezoelectric film is formed.

15. A display apparatus comprising a display panel as set forth in claim 12.

16. A method for manufacturing a display panel substrate as set forth in claim 1,

the method comprising a step of simultaneously patterning the second conductive wires and the piezoelectric film.

13. (canceled)