TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE FILM HAVING CONDUCTIVE POLYMER ELECTRODE LAYER

• US 20140008113A1
• Filed: 03/19/2012
• Published: 01/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kwang Suck Suh
• Original Assignee: Kwang Suck Suh
• Inventors: Suh, Kwang Suck, Kim, Jong Eun, Kim, Tae Young
• Application Number:
  US14/005,929
• Publication Number:
  US 20140008113A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 174/257
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04103 Manufacturing, i.e. details related to manufacturing processes specially suited for touch sensitive devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/0274 Optical details, e.g. printed circuits comprising integral optical means H05K1/0269 takes precedence; coupling light guides with opto-electronic components G02B6/42
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/036 Multilayers with layers of different types
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/095 for polymer thick films, i.e. having a permanent organic polymeric binder
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/0108 Transparent
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/0329 Intrinsically conductive polymer [ICP]; Semiconductive polymer

Abstract

This invention relates to a transparent electrode film for a touch screen panel using poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) that is a kind of conductive polymer, and more particularly to a technique of manufacturing a transparent electrode film by forming a PEDOT coating on the surface of a transparent substrate such as polyester wherein a photocurable resin layer is formed on both surfaces of the substrate film to reduce changes in surface resistance upon aging testing, and an electrode layer containing PEDOT as an effective component is formed on the photocurable resin layer formed on one surface thereof.

Claims

1. A transparent electrode film with an electrode layer, comprising:

a transparent substrate film;

a photocurable hard coating layer formed on one surface or both surfaces of the transparent substrate film; and

a transparent conductive polymer electrode layer formed on the photocurable hard coating layer.

2. The transparent electrode film of claim 1, wherein the photocurable hard coating layer at a position on which the transparent conductive polymer electrode layer is formed has a degree of curing of 45˜

85%.

3. The transparent electrode film of claim 1, wherein the photocurable hard coating layer at a position on which the transparent conductive polymer electrode layer is not formed has a degree of curing of 85% or more.

4. The transparent electrode film of claim 1, wherein a conductive polymer of the electrode layer is poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene).

5. The transparent electrode film of claim 1, wherein the photocurable hard coating layer is an acrylate-based photocurable resin layer.

6. The transparent electrode film of claim 5, wherein the acrylate-based photocurable resin layer is formed by mixing 5˜

80 parts by weight of an oxide acrylate compound comprising an alkyl, an allyl, or a phenyl as a structure having one or more carbons, based on 100 parts by weight of a total acrylate resin.

7. The transparent electrode film of claim 2, wherein the photocurable hard coating layer at a position on which the transparent conductive polymer electrode layer is not formed has a degree of curing of 85% or more.

8. The transparent electrode film of claim 2, wherein a conductive polymer of the electrode layer is poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene).

9. The transparent electrode film of claim 2, wherein the photocurable hard coating layer is an acrylate-based photocurable resin layer.

10. The transparent electrode film of claim 9, wherein the acrylate-based photocurable resin layer is formed by mixing 5˜

80 parts by weight of an oxide acrylate compound comprising an alkyl, an allyl, or a phenyl as a structure having one or more carbons, based on 100 parts by weight of a total acrylate resin.

11. The transparent electrode film of claim 3, wherein a conductive polymer of the electrode layer is poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene).

12. The transparent electrode film of claim 3, wherein the photocurable hard coating layer is an acrylate-based photocurable resin layer.

13. The transparent electrode film of claim 12, wherein the acrylate-based photocurable resin layer is formed by mixing 5˜

80 parts by weight of an oxide acrylate compound comprising an alkyl, an allyl, or a phenyl as a structure having one or more carbons, based on 100 parts by weight of a total acrylate resin.

14. The transparent electrode film of claim 4, wherein the photocurable hard coating layer is an acrylate-based photocurable resin layer.

15. The transparent electrode film of claim 14, wherein the acrylate-based photocurable resin layer is formed by mixing 5˜

80 parts by weight of an oxide acrylate compound comprising an alkyl, an allyl, or a phenyl as a structure having one or more carbons, based on 100 parts by weight of a total acrylate resin.