This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201821207437.2, filed on Jul. 27, 2018, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The disclosure relates to the technical field of touch screens, in particular, to a capacitive touch screen module and an electronic terminal.
With the advancement of science and technology, touch screens (also known as touch panels) are becoming more and more widely used in, such as intelligent electronic products, multimedia teaching, industrial control, office users, and business inquiry devices of various banks. However, in the prior art, the touch screen is mostly operated by touching the surface of a cover of a mobile phone or a tablet with a finger, and a touch chip detects the position of the finger on the surface of the cover of the mobile phone or the tablet to realize human-computer interaction, that is, at present, the touch detection system mainly detects the position of the finger in a two-dimensional plane; as the market demand changes, the demand for detecting the position of the finger in a three-dimensional space is increasing.
The existing touch screen includes a mutual capacitance detection mode and a self-capacitance detection mode. For the mutual capacitance detection mode, as shown in
In addition, as shown in
However, in the case of two-finger or multi-finger touch, as shown in
The disclosure provides a capacitive touch screen module and an electronic terminal, so as to solve the technical problem in the prior art that it cannot be distinguished whether the determined unique coordinate point is generated by a two-finger touch or a single-finger touch.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a capacitive touch screen module is provided, including: an externally mounted touch screen, the externally mounted touch screen includes: a cover and a sensing unit matrix located below the cover, and the sensing unit matrix includes a plurality of sensing units.
The capacitive touch screen module as described above, the sensing units in the sensing unit matrix are led out one by one to an edge of the externally mounted touch screen by wiring.
The capacitive touch screen module as described above, the sensing unit matrix and the wiring are both disposed on the cover.
The capacitive touch screen module as described above, the sensing unit matrix and the wiring are both disposed on a second substrate, and the sensing unit matrix disposed on the second substrate is attached to the cover through a transparent optical adhesive.
The capacitive touch screen module as described above, further includes a first substrate, an upper surface of the first substrate is provided with a shielding layer, and the shielding layer disposed on the upper surface of the first substrate is attached to the sensing unit matrix through a transparent optical adhesive.
The capacitive touch screen module as described above, a lower surface of the second substrate is provided with a shielding layer.
The capacitive touch screen module as described above, at least one of a first substrate and a second substrate in the capacitive touch screen module is formed by a glass or an organic polymer film.
The capacitive touch screen module as described above, the shielding layer is formed by an Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) material.
According to some other embodiments of the present disclosure, an electronic terminal is provided, including: a display device and the above capacitive touch screen module, where the capacitive touch screen module is attached to the display device through a transparent optical adhesive.
The electronic terminal as described above, when the capacitive touch screen includes a shielding layer, the shielding layer is located between the sensing unit matrix in the capacitive touch screen module and the display device.
For the capacitive touch screen module and the capacitive touch screen provided by the disclosure, the spatial position of the finger can be accurately and effectively measured by providing the sensing unit matrix with a plurality of sensing units. The multi-finger touch situation can also effectively be identified, and the specific position touched by each finger can be identified, which effectively solves the technical problem in the prior art that it cannot be distinguished whether the determined unique coordinate point is generated by a two-finger touch or a single-finger touch. The accuracy and reliability of the capacitive touch screen module are guaranteed, which is beneficial to the commercially promotion and application.
Additional aspects and advantages of the disclosure will partly be presented in the following description, partly become apparent in the following description or be appreciated in practicing of the disclosure.
The above and other objects, features and advantages of embodiments of the present disclosure will become more apparent by the following detailed description with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the drawings, various embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in an illustrative, but not limitative way, among them,
In the drawings:
Embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail below, and the examples of the embodiments are illustrated in the drawings, where the same or similar reference numerals are used to refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar functions. The following embodiments described with reference to the drawings are illustrative and only used to explain the present disclosure, but may not be interpreted as the restrictions of the present disclosure.
In the description of the present disclosure, it should be understood that the orientation or positional relationship indicated by the terms “length”, “width”, “height”, “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “back”, “left”, “right”, “inside”, “outside” and the like is based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is merely for the convenience of describing the present disclosure and simplifying description, and does not indicate or imply that the referred device or element must have a particular orientation, or must be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, therefore it should not to be construed as limiting the disclosure.
In the description of the present disclosure, the meaning of “a plurality of” is at least two, such as two, three, etc., unless specifically defined otherwise. In the present disclosure, the terms “install”, “couple”, “connect”, “fix” and the like shall be understood broadly, and may be, for example, a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integral, unless otherwise specifically specified and defined, may be directly connected, or may be indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, may be the internal communication of two elements or the interaction of two elements, unless explicitly defined otherwise. For those skilled in the art, the specific meanings of the above terms in the present disclosure can be understood according to a specific situation.
In the description of the present specification, the description with reference to the terms “an embodiment”, “some embodiments”, “example”, “specific example”, or “some examples” and the like means a specific feature, structure, material or characteristic described in combination with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present disclosure. In the present specification, the schematic representation of the above terms is not necessarily directed to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in a suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. In addition, various embodiments or examples described in the specification and features of various embodiments or examples may be integrated and combined without contradiction.
The specific number of the sensing units 10121 included in the sensing unit matrix 1012 is not limited in this embodiment, and can be set by those skilled in the art according to specific design requirements. For example, the number of the sensing units 10121 may be 8, 9, 15, 16, 18 or other custom numbers as long as the plurality of sensing units 10121 can be arranged in a matrix manner to form the sensing unit matrix 1012. In addition, the sensing units 10121 in the sensing unit matrix 1012 are used to detect the position of the finger, the specific shape and structure of the sensing unit 10121 are not limited in this embodiment, and may be set according to specific design requirements. For example, the shape of the sensing unit 10121 may be a rectangle, a square, a circle, an ellipse, a triangle, or other custom shapes. In order to facilitate accurate measurement of the position of the finger, it is preferable that the shape of the sensing unit 10121 may be the rectangle or the square.
The spatial position of the finger is detected using the capacitive touch screen module of this embodiment. In this embodiment, taking the shape of the sensing unit 10121 being a rectangle as an example, as shown in
When detecting multiple fingers on the capacitive touch screen module in the XY plane, as shown in
When the touching multiple fingers are detected in the Z direction, as shown in
For the capacitive touch screen module provided in this embodiment the spatial position of the finger can be accurately and effectively measured by providing the sensing unit matrix 1012 with a plurality of sensing units 10121. The multi-finger touch situation can also be effectively identified, and the specific position touched by each finger can be identified, which effectively solves the technical problem in the prior art that it cannot be distinguished whether the determined unique coordinate point is generated by a two-finger touch or a single-finger touch. The accuracy and reliability of the capacitive touch screen module are guaranteed, which is beneficial to the commercially promotion and application.
The sensing units 10121 can detect the spatial position of the finger, which is specifically determined via the coupling capacitances between the finger and the sensing units 10121. At this time, the sensing unit 10121 can collect an electrical signal generated when the finger contacts, and transfer the electrical signal through the wiring 104, so that the electrical signal is analyzed and processed accurately to determine the coupling capacitance between the finger and the sensing unit 10121. Therefore, each of the sensing units 10121 is provided with wiring 104, and the wiring 104 can be led to the edge of the externally mounted touch screen 101 to facilitate the transfer of the electrical signal.
In a specific design, in order to avoid signal interference or signal short circuit between the wiring 104 and other portions of the sensing unit 10121, an insulating layer 105 is disposed between the wiring 104 and the sensing unit 10121. An opening for the wiring 104 to pass through is disposed on the insulating layer 105, and the wiring 104 is disposed passing through the opening and at the edge of the externally mounted touch screen 101.
In another implementation, as shown in
Similarly, in order to avoid signal interference or signal short circuit between the wiring 104 and other portions of the sensing unit 10121, an insulating layer 105 is further disposed between the wiring 104 and the sensing unit 10121. And the sensing unit 10121, the insulating layer 105, and the wiring 104 are all disposed on the upper surface of the substrate 106 and then attached to the cover 1011 through the transparent optical adhesive 102.
It should be noted that the arrangement of the sensing unit 10121 and the wiring 104 being disposed on the cover 1011 or the substrate 106 means being deposited thereon by various processes such as sputtering and evaporation.
Specifically, as shown in
In another implementation, on the basis of
Specifically, as shown in
It should be noted that the arrangement of the shielding layer 107 being disposed on the substrate 106 means being deposited thereon by various processes such as sputtering and evaporation.
In this embodiment, the specific material of the shielding layer 107 is not limited, and those skilled in the art can select according to the function to be realized. Specifically, the shielding layer 107 can be formed by an Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) material or other transparent conductive materials. At this time, the stability and reliability of the use of the shielding layer 107 can be effectively ensured, and the safety and reliability of the capacitive touch screen module are further improved.
By providing the capacitive touch screen module with the shielding layer 107, the stability and reliability of the capacitive touch screen module are effectively ensured, and since the implementations are various, the applicable range of the capacitive touch screen module is effectively expanded, and the flexibility of the design of the capacitive touch screen module is improved, which effectively improves the market competitiveness of the capacitive touch screen module.
Another aspect of the present disclosure provides an electronic terminal, including the capacitive touch screen module of any one of the above embodiments and a display device, where the capacitive touch screen module can be attached to the display device through a transparent optical adhesive.
Continuing to refer to
Under the condition that the shielding layer 107 is located between the sensing unit matrix 1012 and the display device 103, the specific position of the shielding layer 107 is not limited in this embodiment, and the person skilled in the art can set it according to specific design requirements. The shielding layer 107 is mainly used to reduce the influence of the noise generated by the display device 103 on the sensing unit matrix 1012. The specific implementations may be as shown in
By providing the electronic terminal with the shielding layer 107, the stability and reliability of the electronic terminal are effectively ensured, and since the implementations are various, the application range of the electronic terminal is effectively expanded, and the flexibility of the design of the electronic terminal is improved, which effectively improves the market competitiveness of the electronic terminal.
Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only for explaining the technical solution of the present disclosure, and are not intended to be limiting; although the present disclosure has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art should understand that the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may be modified, or some or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced; and such modifications or substitutions do not deviate the nature of the technical solution from the scope of the technical solution in the embodiments according to the present disclosure.
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201821207437.2 | Jul 2018 | CN | national |