Transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-A-frame, touch panel, and electronic device each having the transparent piezoelectric sheet

• US 9,200,970 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2011
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Daikin Industries Ltd, Ideal Star Inc.
• Original Assignee: Daikin Industries Ltd, Ideal Star Inc.
• Inventors: Kodani, Tetsuhiro, Kuwajima, Yuuki, Mukai, Eri, Koh, Meiten, Kanemura, Takashi, Omote, Kenji, Ohigashi, Hiroji
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang-Hurst, Kathy
• Assistant Examiner(s): WILSON, DOUGLAS M
• Application Number:
  US13/639,825
• Publication Number:
  US 20130027339A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,737 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 1/16 using properties of piezoelectric devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04105 Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch surface without providing the touch position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means

Abstract

A transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame includes a transparent piezoelectric sheet and a frame covering a peripheral edge portion of the transparent piezoelectric sheet. The transparent piezoelectric sheet includes one transparent piezoelectric film including an organic polymer, one first transparent plate electrode placed on a first main surface of the transparent piezoelectric film and having a first transparent plate electrode portion, and one second transparent plate electrode placed on a second main surface of the transparent piezoelectric film and having a second transparent plate electrode portion. An outline of the second transparent plate electrode portion is positioned inside an outline of the first transparent plate electrode portion as seen in a plan view. The outline of the first transparent plate electrode portion completely coincides with the frame, and the outline of the second transparent plate electrode portion does not at all coincide with the frame as seen in the plan view.

Claims

1. A transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame comprising:

a transparent piezoelectric sheet including

one transparent piezoelectric film including an organic polymer,

one first transparent plate electrode placed on a first main surface of the transparent piezoelectric film, the first transparent plate electrode having a first transparent plate electrode portion, and

one second transparent plate electrode placed on a second main surface of the transparent piezoelectric film, the second transparent plate electrode having a second transparent plate electrode portion,

an outline of the second transparent plate electrode portion being positioned inside an outline of the first transparent plate electrode portion as seen in a plan view; and

a frame covering a peripheral edge portion of the transparent piezoelectric sheet,

as seen in the plan view,

the outline of the first transparent plate electrode portion overlapping an entirety of an inner periphery of the frame and

the outline of the second transparent plate electrode portion not overlapping the inner periphery of the frame and being spaced inwardly from the inner periphery of the frame.

2. The transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame according to claim 1, wherein

a ratio of an area of the second transparent plate electrode portion with respect to an area of the first and second main surfaces of the transparent piezoelectric film is equal to or greater than 70%.

3. The transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame according to claim 1, wherein

a thickness of the transparent piezoelectric film is 1 to 200 μ

m.

4. The transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame according to claim 1, wherein

the organic polymer is selected from vinylidene fluoride-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymer, and polyvinylidene fluoride.

5. The transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame according to claim 1, wherein

the first transparent plate electrode further has a first lead portion, and

the second transparent plate electrode further has a second lead portion.

6. The transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame according to claim 1, further comprising

a pressure-sensitive adhesive portion disposed on a surface of the transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame.

7. The transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame according to claim 1, wherein

the transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame is configured to detect touch pressure.

8. The transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame according to claim 1, wherein

the transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame is used in combination with a touch position detection-use touch panel.

9. The transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame according to claim 8, wherein

the touch position detection-use touch panel is a resistive touch panel or a capacitive touch panel.

10. A touch panel including the transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame according to claim 1, the touch panel further comprising

a touch position detection-use touch panel, with the transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame being placed on one surface of the touch position detection-use touch panel.

11. A touch position detection-use touch panel including the transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame according to claim 6 adhered thereto by the pressure-sensitive adhesive portion.

12. A display device including the transparent piezoelectric sheet-with-a-frame according to claim 6 adhered thereto by the pressure-sensitive adhesive portion.

13. A touch panel comprising:

a transparent piezoelectric sheet including

one transparent piezoelectric film including an organic polymer,

one first transparent plate electrode placed on a first main surface of the transparent piezoelectric film, the first transparent plate electrode having a first transparent plate electrode portion, and

one second transparent plate electrode placed on a second main surface of the transparent piezoelectric film, the second transparent plate electrode having a second transparent plate electrode portion,

an outline of the second transparent plate electrode portion being positioned inside an outline of the first transparent plate electrode portion as seen in a plan view;

a touch position detection-use touch panel placed on one surface of the transparent piezoelectric sheet; and

a frame covering a peripheral edge portion of the transparent piezoelectric sheet and a peripheral edge portion of the touch position detection-use touch panel,

as seen in a plan view,

the outline of the first transparent plate electrode portion overlapping an entirety of an inner periphery of the frame and

the outline of the second transparent plate electrode portion not overlapping the inner periphery of the frame and being spaced inwardly from the inner periphery of the frame.

14. The touch panel according to claim 13, wherein

one of the first transparent plate electrode and the second transparent plate electrode on an opposite side of a touch side is a ground electrode.

15. The touch panel according to claim 14, wherein

the one of the first transparent plate electrode and the second transparent plate electrode on the opposite side of the touch side doubles as a ground electrode of the touch position detection-use touch panel.

16. An electronic device comprising:

a transparent piezoelectric sheet including

one transparent piezoelectric film including an organic polymer,

one first transparent plate electrode placed on a first main surface of the transparent piezoelectric film, the first transparent plate electrode having a first transparent plate electrode portion, and

one second transparent plate electrode placed on a second main surface of the transparent piezoelectric film, the second transparent plate electrode having a second transparent plate electrode portion,

an outline of the second transparent plate electrode portion being positioned inside an outline of the first transparent plate electrode portion as seen in a plan view; and

a casing with the transparent piezoelectric sheet placed inside the casing, the casing having an open portion,

as seen in a plan view,

the outline of the first transparent plate electrode portion overlapping an entirety of an inner edge portion defining the open portion and

the outline of the second transparent plate electrode portion not overlapping the inner edge portion and being spaced inwardly from the inner edge portion.

17. The electronic device according to claim 16, further comprising

a touch position detection-use touch panel placed in contact with a surface on an opposite side of a touch side of the transparent piezoelectric sheet.

18. The electronic device according to claim 17, wherein

one of the first transparent plate electrode and the second transparent plate electrode on the opposite side of the touch side is a ground electrode.

19. The electronic device according to claim 18, wherein

the one of the first transparent plate electrode and the second transparent plate electrode on the opposite side of the touch side doubles as a ground electrode of a touch position detection-use touch panel.