At least one embodiment of the present disclosure pertains to an in-cell touch panel and a display device.
With rapid development of display technology, touch screen panels are gradually becoming popular in people's lives. Currently, touch screen panels, according to structure, can be divided into types including add-on mode touch panels, on-cell touch panels and in-cell touch panels. For example, an add-on mode touch panel can be formed in a way that a touch screen and a liquid crystal display screen is manufactured separately and then assembled together to form a liquid crystal display panel having touch function. Add-on mode touch panels suffer from disadvantages such as high manufacturing cost, low light transmissivity, thicker module, and so on. For example, an in-cell touch panel, with touch electrodes being embedded inside a liquid crystal display panel, can reduce a thickness of a module as a whole and also obviously reduce manufacture cost of a touch screen, and is attractive among panel manufacturers.
Currently, the principle of mutual capacitance or self-capacitance is employed in an in-cell touch panel to realize detection of a touch position of a finger. In terms of self-capacitance principle, a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes on a same layer and insulated from each other can be provided. Upon a screen being untouched by a human body, capacitance endured by each self-capacitance electrode is at a fixed value; and upon a screen being touched by a human body, capacitance endured by each self-capacitance electrode is at the sum of the fixed value plus capacitance of the human body. A touch detection chip, in a touch period, can determine a touch position by detecting variation of the capacitance value of respective self-capacitance electrodes. In contrast with a case that capacitance of a human body can be applied only to projected capacitance in mutual capacitance, capacitance of a human body can be applied to all self-capacitance, thus touch variation generated due to touch on the screen by human is greater than that of a screen manufactured according to the principle of mutual capacitance. Therefore, a touch screen of self-capacitance, with respect to a touch screen of mutual capacitance, can effectively increase signal-to-noise ratio, hence improving accuracy of touch sensing.
At least one embodiment of the present disclosure provides an in-cell touch screen that can be employed to solve a problem of nonuniform of image display due to nonuniform distribution of via holes in an insulation layer.
At least one embodiment of the present disclosure provides an in-cell touch screen, comprising: an upper substrate and a lower substrate that are provided opposite to each other; a plurality of mutually independent self-capacitance electrodes disposed on a side, facing the lower substrate, of the upper substrate, or disposed on side, facing the upper substrate, of the lower substrate; wires that are disposed on a different layer from the self-capacitance electrodes and electrically connected correspondingly with the self-capacitance electrodes; and an insulation layer that is provided between the self-capacitance electrodes and the wires. The insulation layer, in an area that each self-capacitance electrodes overlaps a corresponding wire, is provided with at least a first hole that runs through the insulation layer and each self-capacitance electrode is electrically connected with the corresponding wire via a corresponding first via hole; each self-capacitance electrode, within an area overlapping other wire than the corresponding wire and at a position corresponding to the first via hole, is disposed with a second via hole, and the second via hole runs through the self-capacitance electrode, and an orthogonal projection of the second via hole on the lower substrate covers an orthogonal projection of the first via hole on the lower substrate.
At least one embodiment in the present disclosure provides a display device, comprising the above in-cell touch screen provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure.
In order to clearly illustrate the technical solution of the embodiments of the disclosure, the drawings of the embodiments will be briefly described in the following; it is obvious that the described drawings are only related to some embodiments of the disclosure and, it is not limitative to the scope of the present disclosure.
In order to make objects, technical details and advantages of the embodiments of the disclosure apparent, the technical solutions of the embodiments will be described in a clearly and fully understandable way in connection with the drawings related to the embodiments of the disclosure. Apparently, the described embodiments are just a part but not all of the embodiments of the disclosure. Based on the described embodiments herein, those skilled in the art can obtain other embodiment(s), without any inventive work, which should be within the scope of the disclosure.
Unless otherwise defined, all the technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meanings as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which the present disclosure belongs. The terms “first,” “second,” etc., which are used in the description and the claims of the present application for disclosure, are not intended to indicate any sequence, amount or importance, but distinguish various components. Also, the terms such as “a,” “an,” “the,” etc., are not intended to limit the amount, but indicate the existence of at least one. The terms “comprise,” “comprising,” “include,” “including,” etc., are intended to specify that the elements or the objects stated before these terms encompass the elements or the objects and equivalents thereof listed after these terms, but do not preclude the other elements or objects. The phrases “connect”, “connected”, etc., are not intended to define a physical connection or mechanical connection, but may include an electrical connection, directly or indirectly. “On,” “under,” “left,” “right” and the like are only used to indicate relative position relationship, and when the position of the object which is described is changed, the relative position relationship may be changed accordingly.
Thickness and shape of the film layers illustrated in figures does not reflect actual scale but to schematically illustrate the content of the present disclosure.
Inventors of the present application has noted, in research, that an wire that is connected correspondingly with a self-capacitance electrode is usually provided to connect a self-capacitance electrode with a touch detection chip in an in-cell touch screen. For example, as illustrated in
At least one embodiment of the present disclosure provides an in-cell touch screen, as illustrated in
In the above in-cell touch screen provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure, an insulation layer, in an area that each self-capacitance electrode overlaps an wire, is provided with a first via hole that runs through the insulation layer, with each self-capacitance electrode being electrically connected with a corresponding wire via a corresponding first via hole; each self-capacitance electrode, within an area overlapping other wire than a corresponding wire and at a position corresponding to a first via hole, is disposed with a second via hole that runs through a self-capacitance electrode, with an orthogonal projection of a second via hole on a lower substrate covering an orthogonal projection of a first via hole on the lower substrate. The in-cell touch screen, on the basis of ensuring that first via holes in an insulation layer of the in-cell touch screen are uniformly distributed, can also ensure that a wire is electrically connected with a corresponding self-capacitance electrode and other wires, except the one that is electrically connected with the corresponding self-capacitance electrode, are insulated from the self-capacitance electrode; therefore, on a basis that a self-capacitance electrode is connected with a wire correctly, it is able to solve a problem of uneven image display due to nonuniform distribution of via holes in an insulation layer.
It is to be explained that in above touch screen provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure, an insulation layer, disposed between self-capacitance electrodes and wires, can include a plurality of film layers or one film layer, as long as the insulation layer can guarantee that self-capacitance electrodes and wires are insulated from each other, which will not be limited herein.
For example, to ensure display uniformity, the shapes and sizes of respective first via holes in an in-cell touch screen provided in at least one embodiment of the present disclosure can be the same. For example, in a specific implementation, the shape of a first via hole, in an in-cell touch screen provided above in an embodiment of the present disclosure, can be circular, rectangular or of any other geometric shapes, which will not be limited herein.
In a specific implementation, by considering size deviation and alignment accuracy in forming a via hole, for example, as illustrated in
In a specific implementation, because the thickness of a wire is usually greater than the thickness of a self-capacitance electrode, considering size deviation and alignment accuracy in manufacturing, for example, as illustrated in
In a specific implementation, considering size deviation and alignment accuracy in manufacturing, for example, an in-cell touch screen provided in at least one embodiment of the present disclosure can further include: a conductive base block that is disposed on a same layer as the respective wire and corresponds to a first via hole. Because the thickness of a wire layer is greater than that of a self-capacitance electrode (a thickness of a self-capacitance electrode is 400-600 nm), deviation of the critical dimension of a wire layer is greater than that of an electrode layer, and an orthogonal projection of each conductive base block on an lower substrate covers an orthogonal projection of a second via hole on the lower substrate; each wire is connected with a corresponding self-capacitance electrode via a corresponding conductive base block.
For example, to make manufacturing less difficult and wires distributed uniformly, in an in-cell touch screen provided in at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, as illustrated in
For example, to realize equal capacitance design, in an in-cell touch screen provided in at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, as illustrated in
For example, in an in-cell touch screen provided in at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, to simplify the fabrication process, as illustrated in
For example, to ensure distribution uniformity of grooves (corresponding to first via holes) in an insulation layer, in an in-cell touch screen provided in at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, as for each self-capacitance electrode, the arrangement rule of first via holes in areas that a self-capacitance electrode overlaps other wires than the wire that is electrically connected with the self-capacitance electrode is the same as that of the first via hole in an area that the self-capacitance electrode overlaps the wire that is electrically connected with the self-capacitance electrode.
For example, in an in-cell touch screen provided in at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, to ensure distribution uniformity of grooves in an insulation layer, as illustrated in
For example, to simplify a fabrication process, in an in-cell touch screen provided in at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, a plurality of mutually independent self-capacitance electrodes are disposed on a same layer. Thus, patterns of all self-capacitance electrodes can be formed in one pattering process, hence simplifying process steps and saving fabrication cost. Certainly, the self-capacitance electrodes can also be fabricated in layers, which will not be limited herein.
In an specific implementation, an in-cell touch screen provided in any above embodiment of the present disclosure can be applied in a liquid crystal display screen of TN (Twisted Nematic) type, ADS (Advanced Dimension Switch) type, HADS (High-Advanced Dimension Switch) type or IPS (In-Plane Switch) type.
For example, in the case of an above in-cell touch screen provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure being applied in a liquid crystal display screen of ADS type, a common electrode layer with a plate structure is located below a slit-type pixel electrode, that is, a common electrode is provided between a lower substrate and a pixel electrode, and a passivation layer is further provided between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. In the case of application in a liquid crystal display screen of HADS type, a slit-type common electrode is located above a pixel electrode with a plate structure, that is, a pixel electrode is provided between an lower substrate and a common electrode, and a passivation layer is further provided between the pixel electrode an the common electrode.
In the case of an above in-cell touch screen, provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure, being applied in a liquid crystal display screen of ADS or HADS type, to simplify fabrication process and reduce a fabrication cost, a way that a common electrode layer on a lower substrate is reused as a self-capacitance electrode can be employed, for example, the self-capacitance electrodes can collectively constitute a common electrode layer located on side facing, an upper substrate, of a lower substrate. For example, as illustrated in
According to a specific mode/type of a liquid crystal display screen in which an above in-cell touch screen is applied, in the case of a common electrode layer being reused as respective self-capacitance electrodes, each self-capacitance electrode is of a slit-type electrode structure (for example, ITO (indium tin oxide) electrode structure) or a plate-type electrode structure at a position corresponding to an aperture area of a pixel, that is, in a HADS mode, each self-capacitance electrode includes a slit-type electrode, for example, the slit-type electrode structure is an ITO electrode that has a slit in a pixel aperture area. In an ADS mode, a plate-type electrode (for example, an ITO electrode) is included in respective self-capacitance electrodes to meet requirement of liquid display, in such a case, a portion, corresponding to a slit area of pixel electrodes, of a self-capacitance electrode interacts with a human electric field. Because a specific structure in a liquid crystal display screen of ADS mode and HADS mode can be referred to the common technology for those skilled in the art, redundant description will not be repeated here.
Generally, the resolution of a touch screen is usually at a millimeter level, therefore, in a specific implementation, the density and occupied area of respective self-capacitance electrodes can be selected according to touch resolution needed to ensure required touch resolution, and each self-capacitance electrode is usually designed as a square electrode with a dimension of about 5*5 mm. The resolution of a display screen is usually at a micrometer level, therefore, a self-capacitance electrode usually corresponds to a plurality of pixels in a display screen.
Specifically, because in an above in-cell touch screen provided in the embodiment of present disclosure a common electrode layer is reused as a self-capacitance electrode, in a specific implementation, in order to reduce mutual interference between display signal and touch signal, for example, a mode that touch and display are driven in a time-sharing manner may be employed. For example, in a specific implementation, a display drive chip and a touch detection chip can be integrated as one chip, so as to further reduce manufacturing cost.
For example, in a driving timing diagram as illustrated in
For example, to simplify a fabrication process and reduce manufacturing cost, an in-cell touch screen above provided in at least one embodiment of the present disclosure can further include: data lines located below self-capacitance electrodes. The wires and data lines are disposed on a same layer and made of a same material. Thus, in preparation, the respective wires can be prepared on a same layer as data lines, which can be realized by modifying patterns of the corresponding film layer without adding a new extra fabrication process, therefore, achieving a goal of simplifying process steps, saving manufacturing cost and improving manufacturing efficiency.
In an in-cell touch screen above provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure, although a self-capacitance electrode is provided inside with a second via hole, the second via hole will not influence defection of a liquid crystal molecular regardless of its influence on the surrounding electric field, this is because in a display period what is transmitted over a wire is a common electrode voltage, and the voltage at the position of a second via hole of a self-capacitance electrode can be complemented by the common voltage over a wire, alleviating influence produced by a second via hole and ensuring uniformity of image display.
For example, to prevent a second via hole on a self-capacitance electrode from influencing a liquid crystal layer, an in-cell touch screen provided in at least one embodiment of the present disclosure can further include: a black matrix layer 110 located either on a side, facing an upper substrate 100, of a lower substrate 200 or on a side, facing a lower substrate 200, of an upper substrate 100; an orthogonal projection of the pattern of respective wires 02 on a lower substrate 200 is located within an area where pattern of a black matrix layer 110 is located; or an orthogonal projection of the pattern of respective second via holes on the lower substrate 200 is located within the area where pattern of a black matrix layer 110 is located. Thus, a wire or a second via hole is designed between pixels on an upper row and pixels on a lower row, and at this position a black matrix layer is provided, and therefore the black matrix layer covers the second via hole, liquid crystal molecules that can not be defected normally can be covered below the black matrix layer, which can further alleviate influence produced by a second via hole so as to ensure uniformity of image display.
For example, in an in-cell touch screen above provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure, a width of a wire at a position that a first via hole corresponds to is usually wider than a width thereof at other positions, which configuration is the same as that in a common technology in the related art and is not limited herein.
An in-cell touch screen provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure will be explained with a specific embodiment hereinafter, for example, as illustrated in
In a specific implementation, in an in-cell touch screen provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure, any patterning process that is commonly used in the field can be employed to fabricate each film layer on a lower substrate, such as six patterning processes including: a patterning process for forming gate electrodes and gate lines; a patterning process for forming an active layer; a patterning process for forming wires, data lines and source/drain electrodes; a patterning process for forming pixel electrodes; a patterning process for forming a passivation layer; and a patterning process for forming a common electrode layer. Of course, according to actual design, 5 patterning processes, 7 patterning processes or 8 patterning processes may also be employed, and the processes are not limited herein.
Based on a same conception of disclosure, at least one embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a display device that includes an in-cell touch screen according to any above embodiment of the present disclosure.
For example, the display device can be any product or component having a display function such as a sell phone, a tablet computer, a TV set, a display, a laptop computer, a digital frame or a navigator. The implementation of the display device can be referred to the embodiment of the above in-cell touch screen; those redundant descriptions will not be explained here anymore.
An in-cell touch screen and a display device are provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure. An insulation layer, within an area that each self-capacitance electrode overlaps wires, is provided with at least a first via hole that runs through the insulation layer and each self-capacitance electrode is electrically connected with a corresponding wire via a corresponding first via hole. Each self-capacitance electrode, within an area overlapping other wires than the wire that corresponds to itself and at a position that corresponds to a first via hole, is disposed with a second via hole that runs through a self-capacitance electrode, and a orthogonal projection of a second via hole on a lower substrate covers an orthogonal projection of a first via hole on the lower substrate. The in-cell touch screen, on the basis of ensuring that first via holes are uniformly distributed in an insulation layer, can guarantee a corresponding wire is electrically connected with a self-capacitance electrode, and therefore, a self-capacitance electrode is insulated from the other wires than a corresponding wire that is electrically with the self-capacitance electrode. Thus, based on ensuring the correct connection of a self-capacitance electrode with a wire, the problem of nonuniform image display, which is caused by nonuniform distribution of via holes in an insulation layer, can be solved.
What are described above is related to the illustrative embodiments of the disclosure only and not limitative to the scope of the disclosure. The scopes of the disclosure are defined by the accompanying claims.
This application claims the benefit of Chinese patent application No. 201510012621.6 filled in China on Jan. 9, 2015, which is incorporated by reference herein as a part of this application.
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