Optical laminate for front surface of in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element and in-cell touch panel liquid crystal display device using same

• US 9,720,281 B2
• Filed: 10/25/2013
• Issued: 08/01/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Inventors: Tsunekawa, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Frost, Anthony J
• Application Number:
  US14/438,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20150293390A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,376 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2457/202 LCD, i.e. liquid crystal displays
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 7/023 Optical properties
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 1/08 made of polarising materials
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/3025 Polarisers, i.e. arrangements capable of producing a definite output polarisation state from an unpolarised input state G02B5/3008, G02B5/3016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/3033 in the form of a thin sheet or foil, e.g. Polaroid
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/305 including organic materials, e.g. polymeric layers
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/3083 Birefringent or phase retarding elements G02B5/3008, G02B5/3016 take precedence; systems for polarisation control G02B27/286; manufacturing phase modulating patterns by lithographic processes G03F7/001
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133528 Polarisers
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13363 Birefringent elements, e.g. for optical compensation
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133638 Waveplates, i.e. plates with a retardation value of lambda/n

Abstract

An optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element has reduced thickness while avoiding cloudiness of the liquid crystal screen. The optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element comprises a phase difference plate, a polarizing film, and a transparent substrate in this order, and further comprises a conductive layer. The transparent substrate has optical anisotropy that scatters linear polarized light emitted from the polarizing film, the phase difference plate, the polarizing film, and the transparent substrate are laminated without other layers or only through the conductive layer, and a thickness of the optical laminate is in a range of 32 μm to 300 μm.

Claims

1. An optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element, comprising:

a phase difference plate;

a polarizing film;

a transparent substrate in this order; and

a conductive layer,

wherein the transparent substrate has optical anisotropy that scatters linear polarized light emitted from the polarizing film, the phase difference plate, the polarizing film, and the transparent substrate are laminated without other layers or only through the conductive layer, and a thickness of the optical laminate is in a range of 32 μ

m to 300 μ

m,

wherein the conductive layer has a bilayer structure of a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, and

wherein the first conductive layer comprises a thermoplastic resin.

2. The optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element according to claim 1, further comprising:

a cover glass on the transparent substrate of the optical laminate.

3. The optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element according to claim 1,

wherein the transparent substrate is a plastic film having a retardation value in a range of 3000 nm to 30000 nm or a plastic film having a 1/4 wavelength phase difference.

4. The optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element according to claim 1,

wherein the transparent substrate comprises a plastic film having a 1/4 wavelength phase difference attached to an optical isotropic film.

5. The optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element according to claim 4,

wherein the plastic film having a 1/4 wavelength phase difference is a biaxially stretched polyester film having a thickness in a range of 4 μ

m to 15 μ

m.

6. The optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element according to claim 1,

wherein a surface resistivity of the conductive layer is in a range of 1.0×

10⁸ Ω

/□

to 2.0×

10⁹ Ω

/□

.

7. The optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element according to claim 1,

wherein the first conductive layer comprises fine metal particles or fine metal oxide particles, and the second conductive layer comprises fine conductive particles comprising conductive coating layers on surfaces of fine core particles.

8. The optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element according to claim 1,

wherein the optical laminate comprises the conductive layer on a surface of the phase difference plate opposite to the polarizing film or on a surface of the transparent substrate opposite to the polarizing film.

9. The optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element according to claim 1,

wherein a conductive member for connection is fixed on a surface of the conductive layer.

10. The optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element according to claim 1,

wherein the phase difference plate, the polarizing film, the transparent substrate, and the conductive layer are attached together without using an adhesion layer.

11. The optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element according to claim 1,

wherein a thickness of the phase difference plate is in a range of 25 μ

m to 60 μ

m, a thickness of the polarizing film is in a range of 2 μ

m to 30 μ

m, a thickness of the transparent substrate is in a range of 4 μ

m to 200 μ

m, and a thickness of the conductive layer is in a range of 0.1 μ

m to 10 μ

m.

12. The optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element according to claim 1,

wherein the in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element is an electrostatic capacity-type in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element.

15. The optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element according to claim 1,

wherein a molecule of the thermoplastic resin does not include a reactive functional group.

16. The optical laminate for a front surface of an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element according to claim 1,

wherein the second conductive layer comprises a thermoplastic resin.

13. An in-cell touch panel liquid crystal display device, comprising:

an in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element; and

an optical laminate for a front surface of the in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element, comprising;

a phase difference plate;

a polarizing film;

a transparent substrate in this order; and

a conductive layer,

wherein the transparent substrate has optical anisotropy that scatters linear polarized light emitted from the polarizing film, the phase difference plate, the polarizing film, and the transparent substrate are laminated without other layers or only through the conductive layer, and a thickness of the optical laminate is in a range of 32 μ

m to 300 μ

m,

wherein the conductive layer is located on a surface of the phase difference plate on a polarizing film side, a surface of the phase difference plate on an opposite side to the polarizing film side, or a surface of the transparent substrate on a polarizing film side,

wherein the conductive layer has a bilayer structure of a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, and

wherein a surface of the optical laminate, which is opposite the transparent substrate relative to the polarizing film, is attached to the in-cell touch panel liquid crystal element.

14. The in-cell touch panel liquid crystal display device according to claim 13,

wherein the conductive layer in the optical laminate is connected to another conductive member.

17. The in-cell touch panel liquid crystal display device according to claim 13,

wherein the first conductive layer comprises a thermoplastic resin.

18. The in-cell touch panel liquid crystal display device according to claim 17,

wherein a molecule of the thermoplastic resin does not include a reactive functional group.

19. The in-cell touch panel liquid crystal display device according to claim 13,

wherein the second conductive layer comprises a thermoplastic resin.

20. The in-cell touch panel liquid crystal display device according to claim 13,

wherein the first conductive layer comprises fine metal particles or fine metal oxide particles, the second conductive layer comprises fine coating particles comprising conductive coating layers on surfaces of fine core particles.