Display panel with pressure sensor and electronic device with pressing input function

• US 9,990,072 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2015
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals Incorporated (Mitsui Chemicals)
• Original Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals Incorporated (Mitsui Chemicals), Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Ando, Masamichi, Endo, Jun, Kawamura, Hideki
• Primary Examiner(s): Leiby, Christopher E
• Application Number:
  US14/813,247
• Publication Number:
  US 20150338981A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,041 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/30 Polarising elements light-modulating devices with active elements G02F1/00
• 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: G06F 3/04144 using an array of force sensing means position sensing using the local deformation of sensor cells G06F3/0447

Abstract

An electronic device with pressing input function includes a substantially rectangular parallelepiped-shaped housing. A pressure sensor, a display panel, a protective member, and an arithmetic circuit module are disposed in the housing. In the display panel, a front polarizing plate is disposed on a front face of a liquid crystal panel. The pressure sensor includes piezoelectric films having birefringence, and electrodes formed on opposed faces of one of the piezoelectric films. The pressure sensor is disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the front polarizing plate. The piezoelectric films are arranged such that their uniaxial drawing directions are orthogonal to each other.

Claims

1. A display comprising:

a display panel including an image forming panel that controls light emitted to a front face side thereof to form a displayed image, and a polarizing plate disposed at the front face side of the image forming panel;

a pressure sensor having a piezoelectric film formed of a first at least uniaxially drawn polylactic acid;

a flexible buffer member between the pressure sensor and the image forming panel, and directly adjacent the front face side of the image forming panel; and

a phase compensating film adjacent the pressure sensor, the phase compensating film formed of a second at least uniaxially drawn polylactic acid, wherein

both the pressure sensor and the phase compensating film are disposed between the mage forming panel and the polarizing plate,

a first uniaxial drawing direction of the piezoelectric film is orthogonal to a second uniaxial drawing direction of the phase compensating film, and

an angle between the first uniaxial drawing direction of the piezoelectric film and the second uniaxial drawing direction of the phase compensating film cancels an effect of birefringence on the light wave penetrating the piezoelectric film and the phase compensating film.

2. The display according to claim 1, wherein the phase compensating film is adjacent the image forming panel.

3. The display according to claim 1, wherein the phase compensating film has a first phase difference opposite to a second phase difference of the piezoelectric film.

4. The display according to claim 1, further comprising:

first and second electrodes on opposed sides of the phase compensating film, and wherein the phase compensating film has a pressure-detecting function in conjunction with the first and second electrodes.

5. The display according to claim 1, further comprising:

first and second electrodes on opposed sides of the phase compensating film, and wherein the phase compensating film has a position-detecting sensor function in conjunction with the first and second electrodes.

6. The display according to claim 1, further comprising:

first and second capacitance electrodes on opposed sides of the piezoelectric film of the pressure sensor, and wherein the piezoelectric film has a pressure-detecting function in conjunction with the first and second electrodes.

7. An electronic device comprising:

the display according to claim 1;

an arithmetic circuit that determines a pressing amount based on a detection signal from the pressure sensor; and

a housing having a display surface, the housing accommodating the display and the arithmetic unit.

8. An electronic device comprising:

the display according to claim 4;

an arithmetic circuit that determines a pressing amount based on a detection signal from the pressure sensor and the phase compensating film; and

a housing having a display surface, the housing accommodating the display and the arithmetic unit.

9. An electronic device comprising:

the display according to claim 5;

an arithmetic circuit that determines a pressing amount based on a detection signal from the pressure sensor and a pressing location based on a detection signal from the phase compensating film; and

a housing having a display surface, the housing accommodating the display and the arithmetic unit.

10. An electronic device comprising:

the display according to claim 6;

an arithmetic circuit that determines a pressing amount based on a detection signal from the pressure sensor and a pressing location based on a capacitance signal from the pressure sensor; and

a housing having a display surface, the housing accommodating the display and the arithmetic unit.