TOUCH PANEL

• US 20110008588A1
• Filed: 06/23/2010
• Published: 01/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
• Original Assignee: Chi Mei Innolux Corporation (InnoLux Corporation)
• Inventors: CHAO, CHIH-HAN, CHANG, CHIH-CHIEH, WU, JEAH-SHENG, CHENG, JIA-SHYONG
• Application Number:
  US12/821,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20110008588A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/195.1
• CPC Class Codes: B82Y 10/00 Nanotechnology for information processing, storage or transmission, e.g. quantum computing or single electron logic
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/045 using resistive elements, e.g. a single continuous surface or two parallel surfaces put in contact
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/221 Carbon nanotubes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24802 Discontinuous or differential coating, impregnation or bond [e.g., artwork, printing, retouched photograph, etc.]

Abstract

A touch panel including a first substrate, a second substrate and a plurality of spacers, where the first substrate has a first conductive film, and the second substrate has a second conductive film. The second substrate is disposed close to the first substrate. The second conductive film is opposite to the first conductive film. The spacers are disposed between the first conductive film and the second conductive film.

Claims

1. A touch panel, comprising:

a first substrate having a first conductive film;

a second substrate having a second conductive film being opposite to the first conductive film; and

a plurality of spacers disposed between the first conductive film and the second conductive film;

wherein one of the dimensions of a component of the first conductive film has an upper limit of 300 nm.

2. The touch panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein number of the substrates included in the touch panel has an upper limit of 3.

3. The touch panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first conductive film is formed on the first substrate through a coating or adhesion process.

4. The touch panel as claimed in claim 3, wherein the first conductive film is an indium-tin-oxide conductive film.

5. The touch panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first conductive film includes a carbon nanotube.

6. The touch panel as claimed in claim 5, wherein the first conductive film is formed through an elongation process.

7. The touch panel as claimed in claim 5, wherein the first conductive film has anisotropic resistance.

8. The touch panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first substrate is made of a material selected from polymer and glass.

9. The touch panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first substrate has flexibility.

10. The touch panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first substrate is made of a material selected from PC, PET, PMMA, PE and PI.

11. The touch panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first substrate has a mark selected from patterns and characters.

12. The touch panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein one of the dimensions of a component of the first conductive film has a range of 10˜

100 nm.

13. The touch panel as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a third substrate; and

a transparent layer disposed between the second substrate and the third substrate.

14. The touch panel as claimed in claim 13, wherein the refractive index of the transparent layer is 0.9 to 1.1 times one of the refractive index of the second substrate and the refractive index of the third substrate.

15. The touch panel as claimed in claim 13, wherein one of the first conductive film and the second conductive film includes a carbon nanotube.

16. The touch panel as claimed in claim 15, wherein one of the first conductive film and the second conductive film is formed through an elongation process.

17. The touch panel as claimed in claim 15, wherein one of the first conductive film and the second conductive film has anisotropic resistance.

18. The touch panel as claimed in claim 13, wherein the second substrate is made of a material selected from PC, PET, PMMA, PE and PI.

19. The touch panel as claimed in claim 13, wherein the third substrate is made of a material selected from PC, PET, PMMA, PE and PI.

20. The touch panel as claimed in claim 13, wherein the third substrate has a mark selected form patterns and characters.