DISPLAY DEVICE INTEGRATED WITH TOUCH SCREEN PANEL

• US 20140210738A1
• Filed: 08/20/2013
• Published: 07/31/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hur, Yong-Koo
• Granted Patent: US 9,383,849 B2
• 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 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04164 Connections between sensors and controllers, e.g. routing lines between electrodes and connection pads
• 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

Provided is a display device integrated with a touch screen panel including a display unit including a plurality of pixels at a sealed region between a lower substrate and an upper substrate; first touch electrodes extending in a first direction on the upper substrate in the sealed region, wherein one ends of the first touch electrodes extend to a non-sealed region on the lower substrate; and a sloped portion beneath the first touch electrodes at a boundary between the sealed region and the non-sealed region.

Claims

1. A display device integrated with a touch screen panel comprising:

a display unit comprising a plurality of pixels at a sealed region between a lower substrate and an upper substrate;

first touch electrodes extending in a first direction on the upper substrate in the sealed region, wherein one ends of the first touch electrodes extend to a non-sealed region on the lower substrate; and

a sloped portion beneath the first touch electrodes at a boundary between the sealed region and the non-sealed region.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the first touch electrodes are integrally coupled from the sealed region on the upper substrate to the non-sealed region on the lower substrate via an upper end of the sloped portion.

3. The display device of claim 1, wherein the first touch electrodes are in a line shape integrally coupled from the sealed region on the upper substrate to the non-sealed region on the lower substrate via an upper end of the sloped portion.

4. The display device of claim 1, wherein pads of the first touch electrodes are at the non-sealed region on the lower substrate so as to be on the same line as pads for driving the pixels of the display device.

5. The display device of claim 1, wherein the sloped portion comprises a reinforcing material and is at one side of the upper substrate so as to graduate an elevation difference caused by the upper substrate at the boundary between the sealed region and the non-sealed region.

6. The display device of claim 1, wherein the sloped portion is formed by patterning one side of the upper substrate, at the boundary between the sealed region and the non-sealed region, to be sloped.

7. The display device of claim 1, further comprising second touch electrodes extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and facing the first touch electrodes.

8. The display device of claim 7, wherein the second touch electrodes are formed at the sealed region.

9. The display device of claim 8, further comprising outer lines coupled to the second touch electrodes and extending from the sealed region on the upper substrate to the non-sealed region on the lower substrate,

wherein pads coupled to the outer lines are on the same line as the pads of the first touch electrodes.

10. The display device of claim 7, wherein the second touch electrodes are formed by patterning at least one electrode selected from electrodes constituting each pixel.

11. The display device of claim 10, wherein the second touch electrodes are formed by patterning a cathode electrode or a common electrode.