LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE WITH A BUILT-IN TOUCH PANEL

• US 20140055412A1
• Filed: 08/27/2013
• Published: 02/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Japan Display Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Japan Display Incorporated
• Inventors: TERAMOTO, Masahiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,372,569 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/174
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133707 Structures for producing distorted electric fields, e.g. bumps, protrusions, recesses, slits in pixel electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/12 electrode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0445 using two or more layers of sensing electrodes, e.g. using two layers of electrodes separated by a dielectric layer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0446 using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes

Abstract

A difference between a length Ls of a slit and a length Ld of a dummy electrode is within ±15% of the length Ld. A difference between a length Le in the first direction of a portion between the slits adjacent to each other in the first direction in a detection electrode and the length Ld of the dummy electrode is within ±15% of the length Ld. A difference between a width Ws of the slit and a gap Dde between the dummy electrode and the detection electrode adjacent to each other in the second direction is within ±15% of the gap Dde. A difference between a width We in the second direction of a portion obtained by dividing the detection electrode by the slit and a width Wd of the dummy electrode is within ±15% of the width Wd.

Claims

1. A display device with a built-in touch panel comprising:

a first substrate;

a second substrate;

a plurality of pixel electrodes provided between the first substrate and the second substrate;

a plurality of common electrodes provided between the first substrate and the second substrate;

a plurality of detection electrodes provided on the first substrate such that each of the detection electrodes extends in a first direction and that adjacent ones thereof are aligned with a gap in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and

a plurality of dummy electrodes provided, between the detection electrodes adjacent to each other in the second direction and with a gap from each of the adjacent detection electrodes, on the first substrate so as to be aligned in at least one line in the first direction with a gap between adjacent ones of the dummy electrodes, wherein

an image is displayed by controlling light using electric fields generated between the plurality of pixel electrodes and the plurality of common electrodes,

the presence or absence of a touch is detected by a difference in electrostatic capacitance due to the presence or absence of a substance blocking an electric field formed between any of the detection electrodes and any of the common electrodes,

each of the detection electrodes has a plurality of slits aligned in at least one line in the first direction with a gap between adjacent ones thereof,

a difference between a length Ls in the first direction of each of the slits and a length Ld in the first direction of each of the dummy electrodes is within ±

15% of the length Ld,

a difference between a length Le in the first direction of a portion between the slits adjacent to each other in the first direction in each of the detection electrodes and the length Ld of each of the dummy electrodes is within ±

15% of the length Ld,

a difference between a width Ws in the second direction of each of the slits and a gap Dde between one of the dummy electrodes and one of the detection electrodes adjacent to each other in the second direction is within ±

15% of the gap Dde, and

a difference between a width We in the second direction of each of two or more portions obtained by dividing each of the detection electrodes by the plurality of slits in the second direction and a width Wd in the second direction of each of the dummy electrodes is within ±

15% of the width Wd.

2. The display device with a built-in touch panel according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of dummy electrodes are arranged in a plurality of lines such that adjacent ones of the lines are aligned in the second direction, and

a difference between the width Ws in the second direction of each of the slits and a gap Ddd between the dummy electrodes adjacent to each other in the second direction is within ±

15% of the gap Ddd.

3. The display device with a built-in touch panel according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of dummy electrodes include a first group of the dummy electrodes provided to be shifted in the second direction from any of the slits and a second group of the dummy electrodes provided to be shifted in the second direction from the portion between the slits adjacent to each other in the first direction.

4. The display device with a built-in touch panel according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of slits are arranged in a plurality of lines such that two or more of the slits are aligned in the second direction.