Touch panel device and display device with touch panel device

• US 9,189,112 B2
• Filed: 09/08/2011
• Issued: 11/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Teijin Chemicals Ltd. (Teijin Limited)
• Original Assignee: Teijin Chemicals Ltd. (Teijin Limited)
• Inventors: Imamura, Koichi, Ito, Haruhiko, Ikeda, Koki
• Primary Examiner(s): XAVIER, ANTONIO J
• Application Number:
  US13/821,471
• Publication Number:
  US 20130169593A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,531 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/0445 using two or more layers of sensing electrodes, e.g. using two layers of electrodes separated by a dielectric layer

Abstract

Provided is a touch panel device which prevents a problem such as generation of Newton'"'"'s rings even if an air layer between the touch panel device and a display device has a small thickness. This capacitance type touch panel device (100) includes: a protective transparent base (10) having an observation-side surface and a display device-side surface; and two polymer films with position detection electrode layers (20b, 22; 30b, 32) which are arranged on the display device-side surface of the protective transparent base. The difference between the minimum value and the maximum value of the linear expansion coefficients in the surface direction of all the polymer films (20b; 30b) arranged on the display device-side surface of the protective transparent base is 10.0×10⁻⁶ cm/cm·° C. or below. Furthermore, the display device with a touch panel device (100, 200, 300) according to the present invention has such a touch panel device.

Claims

1. An electrostatic capacitance-type touch panel device, comprising a protective transparent substrate having a viewing-side surface and a display device-side surface, and two polymer films having position-detecting electrode layers and other polymer film, which are located at the display device-side surface of the protective transparent substrate,

wherein the protective transparent substrate is a glass substrate;

wherein a difference between minimum and maximum values of a planar-direction linear expansion coefficient of all polymer films, including said two polymer films having position-detecting electrode layers and said other polymer film, located at the display device-side surface of the protective transparent substrate is 10.0×

10<sup>−

6</sup> cm/cm·

°

C. or less and

wherein said electrostatic capacitance-type touch panel device comprises, as said other polymer film, a polarizing plate located at the display device-side surface of said protective transparent substrate, and a total retardation of all layers located at the display device side from said polarizing plate is approximately λ

/4 with respect to 550 nm wavelength light.

2. The touch panel device according to claim 1, wherein the device further comprises, as said other polymer film, a polymer film having a shielding electrode layer and located at a display device-side surface of said protective transparent substrate, and wherein said polymer film having a shielding electrode layer is located at the display device side from said two polymer films having position-detecting electrode layers.

3. A display device equipped with the electrostatic capacitance-type touch panel device according to claim 2, wherein said electrostatic capacitance-type touch panel device is arranged on the display surface of said display device via an air layer, and the thickness of the air layer is 0.500 mm or less.

4. A display device equipped with the electrostatic capacitance-type touch panel device according to claim 1, wherein said electrostatic capacitance-type touch panel device is arranged on the display surface of said display device via an air layer, and the thickness of the air layer is 0.500 mm or less.