Touch screen display device and method of manufacturing the same

• US 7,907,126 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2007
• Issued: 03/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hydis Technology Company Limited (E Ink Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Sung-Jin, Yoon, Soo-Wan, Kim, Sang-Il, Park, Cheol-Woo, Lee, Woo-Jae, Roh, Nam-Seok, Chai, Chong-Chul
• Primary Examiner(s): Dinh; Duc Quang
• Application Number:
  US11/682,394
• Publication Number:
  US 20080048989A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,470 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-181, 345/156
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/167 by electrophoresis
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0447 Position sensing using the local deformation of sensor cells

Abstract

A touch screen display device includes a common electrode, a base substrate disposed opposite to the common electrode, a display signal line formed on the base substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a touch position sensing part formed between the base substrate and the pixel electrodes, the touch position sensing part sensing a change of electrostatic capacitance formed between the common electrode and the touch position sensing part, and a display layer disposed between the common electrode and the pixel electrodes. The display layer includes a plurality of micro capsules comprising positively charged pigment particles and negatively charged pigment particles.

Claims

1. A touch screen display device comprising:

a common electrode;

a base substrate disposed opposite to the common electrode;

a display signal line formed on the base substrate;

a plurality of pixel electrodes electrically connected with the display signal line;

a touch position sensing part formed between the base substrate and the pixel electrodes, the touch position sensing part comprising a sensing electrode formed in a unit pixel area and sensing a change of electrostatic capacitance formed between the common electrode and the sensing electrode, and the change of electrostatic capacitance being generated from a change of distance between the common electrode and the sensing electrode; and

a display layer disposed between the common electrode and the pixel electrodes, the display layer including a plurality of micro capsules comprising positively charged pigment particles and negatively charged pigment particles,

wherein the sensing electrode comprises a first sensing electrode formed in the unit pixel area forming a first electrostatic capacitance with the common electrode, and a second sensing electrode formed in the unit pixel area forming a second electrostatic capacitance with the common electrode.

2. The touch screen display device of claim 1, wherein the display signal line includes a gate line and a data line that intersect each other on the base substrate to define the unit pixel area in which each of the pixel electrodes is disposed, and wherein

the touch screen display device further comprises a thin film transistor electrically connected with the gate line and the data line to switch a pixel voltage to be applied to the pixel electrode.

3. The touch screen display device of claim 1, further comprising a position data processing part electrically connected with first and second sensing lines, the position data processing part detecting the position data of a point on the touch screen display device indicating a point touched by an external object using signals transmitted from the first and second sensing lines.

4. The touch screen display device of claim 3, wherein the first sensing line is formed at the same layer as the gate line, and wherein the second sensing line is formed at the same layer as the data line.

5. The touch screen display device of claim 4, further comprising:

a gate insulating layer covering the gate line and the first sensing line;

a channel protecting layer covering the data line, the second sensing line and the thin film transistor;

a first protecting film on which the common electrode is formed; and

a second protecting film disposed between the pixel electrode and the display layer, the second protecting film protecting the micro capsules.

6. The touch screen display device of claim 5, wherein the pixel electrode is formed on the channel protecting layer.

7. The touch screen display device of claim 5, wherein the pixel electrode is formed on the gate insulating layer.

8. The touch screen display device of claim 7, wherein the data line and the pixel electrode are formed with the same material.

9. The touch screen display device of claim 3, wherein the first sensing line and the second sensing line are disposed to cross over the unit pixel area.

10. The touch screen display device of claim 9, wherein each of the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode overlaps the pixel electrode.

11. The touch screen display device of claim 10, wherein the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode partially overlap each other in the unit pixel area.

12. The touch screen display device of claim 10, wherein the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode are separated from each other in the unit pixel area.

13. The touch screen display device of claim 2, wherein a number of the micro capsules disposed in the unit pixel area is in a range of about 20 to 100.

14. The touch screen display device of claim 2, further comprising a panel driving part applying a gate signal and a data signal to the thin film transistor to electrophorese the pigment particles.

15. The touch screen display device of claim 14, further comprising a short point formed in the base substrate, the short point transmitting a common voltage outputted from the panel driving part to the common electrode.