Display apparatus with symmetric diffusion film

• US 9,285,513 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2013
• Issued: 03/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
• Original Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
• Inventors: Shibazaki, Minoru, Hashimoto, Kazuyuki, Haruyama, Yoshitaka
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEN, WEN YING PATTY
• Application Number:
  US14/010,238
• Publication Number:
  US 20130335943A1
• Time in Patent Office: 932 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/0242 by means of dispersed particles
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/0278 used in transmission
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133504 Diffusing, scattering, diffracting elements associated to illuminating devices G02F1/133606
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/045 using resistive elements, e.g. a single continuous surface or two parallel surfaces put in contact

Abstract

A display apparatus at least comprises a touchscreen, and a symmetric diffusion film (SDF) disposed above the touchscreen. The SDF comprises at least two different materials, including a first material mixed with a second material. The first material has a first refractive index and the second material has a second refractive index, and the first refractive index is different from the second refractive index.

Claims

1. A display apparatus, comprising:

a touchscreen; and

a symmetric diffusion film (SDF), disposed above the touchscreen, and the SDF comprising at least two different materials, including a first material mixed with a second material, and the first material having a first refractive index while the second material having a second refractive index, wherein the first refractive index is different from the second refractive index, and wherein a half-width at half-maximum (HWHM) of the SDF for scattering light in a range of 2 degrees to 10 degrees.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a backlight module, disposed beneath the touchscreen for emitting light passing through the touchscreen and the SDF.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the backlight module provides a collimated light towards the touchscreen and the SDF.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein a half-width at half-maximum (HWHM) of the collimated light is in a range of 5 degrees to 20 degrees.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising an upper polarizer and a lower polarizer, respectively disposed above and beneath the touchscreen, wherein the backlight module is disposed beneath the lower polarizer.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the SDF is disposed above the upper polarizer.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a haze of the SDF is in a range of 50% to 95%.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the touchscreen comprises a display module and a touch sensor coupled to the display module, wherein the display module comprises a first substrate, a second substrate and a display medium layer disposed therebetween.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the touch sensor at least comprises:

a sensing electrode layer, comprising a plurality of first electrodes and

a plurality of second electrodes, wherein the first and second electrodes are made by a same layer and insulated from each other.

10. The display apparatus display according to claim 1, wherein the difference between the first refractive index and the second refractive index of the SDF is larger than 0 and no more than 0.1.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second material of the SDF is configured as a plurality of particles sized in a range of 0.1 μ

m to 10 μ

m and distributed in the first material.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first material of the SDF is an organic material, and the second material of the SDF is an inorganic material or a transparent conductive material.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first material of the SDF is an adhesive or resin.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a thickness of the SDF is between 20 μ

m and 200 μ

m.

15. A display apparatus, comprising:

a touchscreen;

a symmetric diffusion film (SDF), disposed above the touchscreen, and the SDF comprising at least two different materials, including a first material mixed with a second material, and the first material having a first refractive index while the second material having a second refractive index, wherein the first refractive index is different from the second refractive index;

a backlight module, disposed beneath the touchscreen for emitting light passing through the touchscreen and the SDF; and

an upper polarizer and a lower polarizer, respectively disposed above and beneath the touchscreen wherein the backlight module is disposed beneath the lower polarizer,

wherein the SDF is disposed between the upper polarizer and the touchscreen.

16. A display apparatus, comprising:

a touchscreen comprising a display module and a touch sensor coupled to the display module, wherein the display module comprises a first substrate, a second substrate and a display medium layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and

a black matrix layer on one side of the second substrate, wherein the touch sensor comprises a sensing electrode layer with a pattern corresponding to the black matrix layer; and

a symmetric diffusion film (SDF), disposed above the touchscreen, and the SDF comprising at least two different materials, including a first material mixed with a second material, and the first material having a first refractive index while the second material having second refractive index, wherein the first refractive index is different from the second refractive index.

17. The display apparatus according to claim 16, wherein a line width of the sensing electrode layer is no more than a width of the black matrix layer.

18. The display apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the sensing electrode layer is made of metal mesh.

19. The display apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the sensing electrode layer and the black matrix layer are positioned at different sides of the second substrate.