TOUCH PANEL AND TOUCH DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME

• US 20120075218A1
• Filed: 09/21/2011
• Published: 03/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wintek Corporation, Wintek Technology Dongguan Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Wintek Corporation, Wintek Technology Dongguan Ltd.
• Inventors: LIN, MING-CHUAN, Wang, Tien-Nan, Lin, Yung-Chang, Lin, Lin, Tsai, Pei-Fang, Wang, Ying-Chi, Wang, Wen-Hung, Chen, Shyh-Jeng
• Application Number:
  US13/238,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20120075218A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04107 Shielding in digitiser, i.e. guard or shielding arrangements, mostly for capacitive touchscreens, e.g. driven shields, driven grounds
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment

Abstract

A touch panel comprising a substrate, a touch element, a first grounding electrode, an insulation layer and a second grounding electrode is disclosed. The touch element is disposed on a first surface of the substrate. The first grounding electrode is disposed on the first surface to surround the touch element. The insulation layer is disposed on the first surface to cover the touch element and the first grounding electrode. The second grounding electrode is disposed on the first insulation layer or on a second surface of the substrate opposite to the first surface. Therefore, the ESD can be conducted to the grounding end G of the circuit component through the enclosed first grounding electrode, and the signal interference between the touch panel and display can be shielded by the second grounding electrode to enhance anti-ESD and anti-noise abilities of the touch panel.

Claims

1. A touch panel, comprising:

at least one first substrate;

at least one touch element, disposed on a first surface of the first substrate;

at least one first grounding electrode, disposed on the first surface to surround the touch element;

a first insulation layer, disposed on the first surface to cover the touch element and the first grounding electrode; and

a second grounding electrode, disposed on the first insulation layer or on a second surface of the first substrate opposite to the first surface.

2. The touch panel of claim 1, wherein the first grounding electrode is disposed at the peripheral of the first substrate to expose the outer edge of the first grounding electrode.

3. The touch panel of claim 1, wherein the touch element comprises a plurality of first sensing electrodes, a plurality of second sensing electrodes, a plurality of first wires, a plurality of second wires and a second insulation layer wherein the first sensing electrodes connected with the first wires and the second sensing electrodes connected with the second wires are disposed intersectingly, and the second insulation layer is disposed between the first wires and the second wires.

4. The touch panel of claim 3, wherein the first wires are formed simultaneously with the first grounding electrode at the same manufacturing process.

5. The touch panel of claim 3, wherein the first substrate is a color filter substrate, a cover lens or a polarizer.

6. The touch panel of claim 5, wherein the cover lens is made of glass or plastic.

7. The touch panel of claim 1, further comprising a second substrate wherein the touch element comprises multiple top sensing electrodes disposed on the second substrate and multiple bottom sensing electrodes disposed on the first substrate, the first grounding electrodes are respectively disposed on the first substrate and the second substrate to surround the top sensing electrodes and the bottom sensing electrodes, and the second grounding electrode is disposed on the second surface of the first substrate.

8. A touch display device, comprising:

at least one substrate;

at least one touch element, disposed on a first surface of the substrate;

at least one first grounding electrode, disposed on the first surface to surround the touch element;

an insulation layer, disposed on the first surface to cover the touch element and the first grounding electrode;

a second grounding electrode, disposed on the insulation layer or on a second surface of the substrate opposite to the first surface; and

a display, disposed on the second grounding electrode.

9. The touch display device of claim 8, wherein the display is a liquid crystal display (LCD), a bistable display, an organic light-emitting display (OLED) or an electro-wetting display (EWD).