TOUCH PANEL

• US 20120244348A1
• Filed: 09/28/2010
• Published: 09/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Chem Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Chem Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Hwang, Yoon Tae, Chang, Suk Ky, Park, Min Soo, Yang, Se Woo, Kim, Woo Ha
• Application Number:
  US13/498,539
• Publication Number:
  US 20120244348A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/355.AC
• CPC Class Codes: C09J 133/08 Homopolymers or copolymers of acrylic acid esters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 1/64 Protective enclosures, baffle plates, or screens for contacts
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2848 Three or more layers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2891 including addition polymer from alpha-beta unsaturated carboxylic acid [e.g., acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, etc.] Or derivative thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31855 Of addition polymer from unsaturated monomers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31935 Ester, halide or nitrile of addition polymer

Abstract

The present invention relates to a touch panel. The present touch panel has a shape that comprises a plastic substrate film and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer attached to said substrate film. Here, a phenomenon of penetrating oxygen, moisture or other foreign materials into an interface between said substrate film and said pressure sensitive adhesive layer is prevented, and decrease of optical properties by bubble generation due to the out-gassing phenomenon in the plastic substrate film is prevented. In addition, even if the pressure sensitive adhesive layer is directly attached to the conductive thin film, and it is exposed to a severe condition such as high temperature or high temperature and high humidity condition as such a state, change of resistance in the conductive thin film is effectively inhibited. Therefore, the present touch panel may be stably driven for a long time.

Claims

1. A touch panel comprising:

a plastic substrate film; and

a pressure sensitive adhesive layer that is attached to said substrate film and includes an acrylic resin of which the polydispersity index is 4.0 or less.

2. The touch panel according to claim 1, wherein a conductive thin film is further formed on at least one side of the plastic substrate film and said pressure sensitive adhesive layer is directly attached to said conductive thin film.

3. The touch panel according to claim 2, wherein the touch panel further comprises a base film, at least one side of which a conductive thin film is formed on, and said pressure sensitive adhesive layer is attached to the conductive thin film of said base film and the conductive thin film of said plastic substrate film.

4. The touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the acrylic resin has the polydispersity index of 3.5 or less.

5. The touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the acrylic resin has the polydispersity index of 3.0 or less.

6. The touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the acrylic resin has a weight average molecular weight of 300,000 to 1,500,000.

7. The touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the acrylic resin comprises a (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer and a copolymerizable monomer that provides the acrylic resin with a cross-linkable functional group in a polymerized form.

8. The touch panel according to claim 7, wherein the cross-linkable functional group is a hydroxy group, a carboxyl group, a functional group containing nitrogen, an epoxy group or an isocyanate group.

9. The touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive layer further comprises a multi-functional cross-linker that cross-links the acrylic resin.

10. The touch panel according to claim 9, wherein the multi-functional cross-linker is an isocyanate compound, an epoxy compound, an aziridine compound or a metal chelate compound.

11. The touch panel according to claim 9, wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive layer comprises 0.01 to 5 parts by weight of the multi-functional cross-linker, relative to 100 parts by weight of the acrylic resin.

12. A pressure sensitive adhesive composition for a touch panel that comprises an acrylic resin having the polydispersity index of 4.0 or less, and that is satisfied with a condition of the following general formula 1:

Δ

R=[(R−

R_i)/R_i]×

100≦

15  

 

[General Formula 1]

wherein, Δ

R represents a resistance change rate, R_i represents an initial resistance of an ITO electrode measured after a pressure sensitive adhesive layer derived from said pressure sensitive adhesive composition is attached to the ITO electrode, R is a resistance of said ITO electrode measured after the ITO electrode, to which said pressure sensitive adhesive layer is attached, is maintained at 60°

C. and 90% relative humidity for 240 hours.

13. The pressure sensitive adhesive composition for a touch panel according to claim 12, wherein Δ

R is 10 or less.

14. The pressure sensitive adhesive composition for a touch panel according to claim 12, wherein the touch panel comprises a plastic substrate film and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer attached to said substrate film, and wherein the composition is applied to the pressure sensitive adhesive layer of the touch panel.

15. A pressure sensitive adhesive sheet for a touch panel, which has a pressure sensitive adhesive layer comprising a pressure sensitive adhesive composition according to claim 12.