Liquid crystal display device with touch function

• US 9,280,014 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2014
• Issued: 03/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Company Limited (Tianma Microelectronics Company Limited), Tianma Microelectronics Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Company Limited (Tianma Microelectronics Company Limited), Tianma Microelectronics Company Limited
• Inventors: Du, Lingxiao, Yao, Qijun, Wu, Tianyi, Huo, Sitao, Ma, Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Hines, Anne
• Assistant Examiner(s): DIAZ, JOSE
• Application Number:
  US14/555,006
• Publication Number:
  US 20150370114A1
• Time in Patent Office: 468 Days
• Field of Search: 349/12, 345/173
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133512 Light shielding layers, e.g. black matrix G02F1/136209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134318 having a patterned common electrode
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134363 for applying an electric field parallel to the substrate, i.e. in-plane switching [IPS]
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13439 characterised by their electrical, optical, physical properties; materials therefor; method of making
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0443 using a single layer of sensing electrodes

Abstract

A liquid crystal display device includes multiple data lines and multiple scan lines insulatedly intersecting each other. Each of the pixel units includes a common electrode and a pixel electrode insulated from each other by an insulating layer, an in-plane electric field is formed by the common electrode and the pixel electrode The common electrodes are connected together to form a common electrode layer, which comprises multiple touch electrodes and touch signal wires. Each of the touch signal wires is electrically connected with a corresponding touch electrode, first slits are arranged in parallel to the data lines, each of the first slits is disposed between two adjacent touch electrodes or between a touch electrode and an adjacent touch signal wire, except at a junction between the touch signal wire and the touch electrode. A first slit overlaps with a pixel electrode within a pixel unit.

Claims

1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising:

a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines intersecting each other and electrically insulated from each other;

a plurality of pixel units defined by the data lines and the scan lines, each of the pixel units comprising a common electrode and a pixel electrode electrically insulated from each other by an insulating layer, the common electrode and the pixel electrode of a pixel unit forming an in-plane electric field when a voltage is applied thereto;

a common electrode layer comprising a plurality of the common electrodes connected together, a plurality of touch electrodes, and a plurality of touch signal wires, wherein each of the touch signal wires is electrically connected with a corresponding touch electrode; and

a plurality of first slits disposed in parallel to the data lines, each of the first slits being disposed between two adjacent touch electrodes or between a touch electrode and an adjacent touch signal wire, but not at a junction between the touch electrode and the adjacent touch signal wire, wherein a first slit overlaps with a pixel electrode within a pixel unit.

2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein a common electrode is located below a pixel electrode, the pixel electrode comprises a plurality of strip electrodes, and a first slit overlaps with one of the plurality of strip electrodes of the pixel electrode in at least one of the plurality of pixel units.

3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 2, wherein a projection of the first slit overlapping with the one of the plurality of strip electrodes of the pixel electrode falls within a projection of the one of the plurality of strip electrodes in a light transmission direction, and a distance from an edge of the first slit to an edge of the one of the plurality of strip electrode is less than or equal to 1 μ

m;

or the projection of the one of the plurality of strip electrodes of the pixel electrode falls within the projection of the first slit, and the distance from the edge of the first slit to the edge of the one of the plurality of strip electrodes is less than or equal to 1 μ

m.

4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein a common electrode is located above a planar pixel electrode in a pixel unit, the common electrode having a third slit for forming an in-plane electric field with the planar pixel electrode, and a first slit at least partially overlaps with the third slit.

5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of first slits are located in pixel units of a same color.

6. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 5, wherein the plurality of first slits are located in the pixel units of a blue color.

7. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 2, wherein, in at least one of the plurality of pixel units without the first slit, the common electrode comprises a second slit having a width equal to a width of the first slit, and the second slit overlaps with a strip electrode of the pixel electrode.

8. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 5, wherein, in at least one of the plurality of pixel units of a blue color and without the first slit, the common electrode comprises a second slit having a width equal to a width of the first slit, and the second slit overlaps with a strip electrode of the pixel electrode.

9. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, further comprising a black matrix for shielding the data lines and the scan lines, wherein the first slit overlaps with the scan line, and the black matrix extends towards inside of the pixel unit to form a first extension portion at an overlapping area where the first slit and the scan line overlap with each other, and the first extension portion partially shields the first slit.

10. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 9, wherein a length of the first extension portion of the black matrix is in a range of 1 μ

m to 3 μ

m.

11. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 9, wherein the first extension portion of the black matrix is rectangle or trapezium shaped.

12. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 9, wherein in at least one of the plurality of pixel units without the first slit, the common electrode has a second slit, a width of the second slit is equal to the width of the first slit, and the second slit overlaps with the strip electrode of the pixel electrode;

the black matrix extends towards inside of the at least one of the plurality of pixel units without the first slit to form a second extension part, and the second extension part has the same shape as the first extension part.

13. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, further comprising a metal conductive layer arranged above or below the common electrode layer at positions corresponding to the data lines or scan lines, and the metal conductive layer is electrically connected with the common electrode layer.