Display device with touch panel having X, Y and dummy electrodes

• US 9,280,247 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2015
• Issued: 03/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Japan Display Incorporated, Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hashimoto, Shinya
• Primary Examiner(s): Karimi, Pegeman
• Application Number:
  US14/634,534
• Publication Number:
  US 20150177888A1
• Time in Patent Office: 375 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133345 Insulating layers G02F1/1335, G02F1/1337, G02F1/135, G02F1/136 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13439 characterised by their electrical, optical, physical properties; materials therefor; method of making
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/16 Constructional details or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04102 Flexible digitiser, i.e. constructional details for allowing the whole digitising part of a device to be flexed or rolled like a sheet of paper
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04103 Manufacturing, i.e. details related to manufacturing processes specially suited for touch sensitive devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04107 Shielding in digitiser, i.e. guard or shielding arrangements, mostly for capacitive touchscreens, e.g. driven shields, driven grounds
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04111 Cross over in capacitive digitiser, i.e. details of structures for connecting electrodes of the sensing pattern where the connections cross each other, e.g. bridge structures comprising an insulating layer, or vias through substrate
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04164 Connections between sensors and controllers, e.g. routing lines between electrodes and connection pads
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• 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: H05K 1/0216 Reduction of cross-talk, noise or electromagnetic interference grounding H05K1/0215
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/11 Printed elements for providing electric connections to or between printed circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/118 specially for flexible printed circuits, e.g. using folded portions
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/09245 Crossing layout alternating conductors H05K2201/097
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/09254 Branched layout
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/361 Assembling flexible printed circuits with other printed circuits

Abstract

A display device includes a display panel, and an electrostatic capacitive type touch panel which is formed in an overlapping manner with the display panel. A plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes intersecting with the X electrodes. A first signal line supplies signals to the X electrodes, a second signal line supplies signals to the Y electrodes, and the first signal line and the second signal line are formed on a flexible printed circuit board. A dummy electrode is formed adjacent to an electrode portion of each X electrode and electrode portion of each Y electrode, the dummy electrode does not overlap the X electrode and the Y electrode, and the dummy electrode does not electrically connect with the first and second signal lines.

Claims

1. An electrostatic capacitive type touch panel comprising:

a substantially rectangular shape with a pair of long sides and a pair of short sides;

a plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes intersecting with the X electrodes which are formed on the electrostatic capacitive type touch panel, each X electrode having intersecting portions where the X electrode and the Y electrode overlap with each other and electrode portions each of which is formed between two intersecting portions, and each Y electrode having intersecting portions where the X electrode and the Y electrode overlap with each other and electrode portions each of which is formed between two intersecting portions;

a first signal line having a first portion which extends along at least one of the short and long sides of the electrostatic capacitive type touch panel supplying signals to the X electrodes;

a second signal line having a first portion which extends along at least one of the short and long sides of the electrostatic capacitive type touch panel supplying signals to the Y electrodes;

a plurality of first connection terminals of the first portion of the first signal line and the second signal line; and

a flexible printed circuit board having a second portion of the first and the second signal line, a plurality of second connection terminals, and a plurality of third connection terminals,

wherein the second connection terminal is electrically connected with the third connection terminal respectively by the second portion,

wherein the plurality of second connection terminals is disposed above the plurality of first connection terminal and electrically connected with the plurality of first connection terminals respectively,

wherein the flexible printed circuit board has intersecting lines of the second portion, and

wherein the number of the plurality of third connection terminals is less than that of the plurality of second connection terminals,

wherein a dummy electrode is formed adjacent to the electrode portion of said each X electrode,

wherein the dummy electrode does not overlap the X electrode and the Y electrode, and does not electrically connect with the first and second signal line.

2. The electrostatic capacitive type touch panel according to claim 1, wherein a dummy electrode is made of a same layer of the electrode portion of the X electrode.

3. The electrostatic capacitive type touch panel according to claim 1, wherein either one of the X electrode and the Y electrode is formed of a transparent conductive film.

4. The electrostatic capacitive type touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the X electrode and the Y electrode are transparent conductive films which are formed with an insulation film sandwiched therebetween.

5. The electrostatic capacitive type touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the X electrode and the Y electrode are transparent conductive films which are formed with an insulation film sandwiched therebetween, and a dummy electrode which is formed adjacent to the each X electrode or said each Y electrode is a transparent conductive formed on the same layer as the electrode portion.

6. The electrostatic capacitive type touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the X electrode and the Y electrode are transparent conductive films which are formed with an insulation film sandwiched therebetween.

7. The electrostatic capacitive type touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the X electrode and the Y electrode are transparent conductive films which are formed with an insulation film sandwiched therebetween, and a floating electrode which is formed adjacent to the each X electrode or said each Y electrode is a transparent conductive formed on the same layer as the electrode portion.

8. An electrostatic capacitive type touch panel comprising:

a substrate having a substantially rectangular shape with a pair of long sides and a pair of short sides;

a plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes intersecting with the X electrodes which are formed on the substrate, each X electrode having intersecting portions where the X electrode and the Y electrode overlap with each other and electrode portions each of which is formed between two intersecting portions, and each Y electrode having intersecting portions where the X electrode and the Y electrode overlap with each other and electrode portions each of which is formed between two intersecting portions;

a first signal line having a first portion which extends along at least one of the short and long sides of the substrate supplying signals to the X electrodes;

a second signal line having a first portion which extends along at least one of the short and long sides of the substrate supplying signals to the Y electrodes;

a plurality of first connection terminals of the first portion of the first signal line and the second signal line arranged above the substrate; and

a flexible printed circuit board having a second portion of the first and the second signal line, a plurality of second connection terminals, and a plurality of third connection terminals being electrically connected with the second connection terminals respectively by the second portion,

wherein the plurality of second connection terminal is overlapped with the plurality of first connection terminal and electrically connected with the plurality of first connection terminal respectively, wherein the flexible printed circuit board has intersecting lines of the second portion,

wherein the number of the plurality of third connection terminals is less than that of the plurality of second connection terminals,

wherein a floating electrode is formed adjacent to the electrode portion of said each X electrode,

wherein the floating electrode does not overlap the X electrode and the Y electrode, and

wherein the floating electrode does not electrically connect with the first and second signal line.

9. The electrostatic capacitive type touch panel according to claim 8, wherein a floating electrode is made of a same layer of the electrode portion of the X electrode.

10. The electrostatic capacitive type touch panel according to claim 8, wherein either one of the X electrode and the Y electrode is formed of a transparent conductive film.