This Application claims priority of the People's Republic of China Patent Application No. 201210196476.8, filed on Jun. 14, 2012, the entirety of which is incorporated by reference herein.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a touch display device, and in particular, a touch display device using a border adhesive to bond an upper component and a lower component together.
2. Description of the Related Art
Currently, major components of a touch display device, such as a cover lens, a touch sensing element layer and a display panel are sheet structures. The touch sensing element layer adhered to the cover lens is bonded with the display panel by a border adhesive. A gap surrounded by the border adhesive is formed between the display panel and the touch sensing element layer.
For thinner touch display devices, the thickness of the border adhesive must also be thinner. Accordingly, the gap surrounded by the border adhesive formed between the display panel and the touch sensing element layer is reduced. Because the sheet components of the touch display device such as the cover lens, the touch sensing element layer and the display panel are processed by high-temperature processes, due to the process, an inherent stress of each sheet component of the touch display device is released to cause warped in each sheet component. While the gap between the component located above the border adhesive and the component located under the border adhesive is reduced with the thinner touch display device, it makes the upper component contact with the lower component, thereby causing the Newton's ring phenomenon found with conventional thin touch display devices. The Newton's ring phenomenon decreases display quality of a conventional thin touch display device.
Therefore, mitigating the above problems through further development of thin touch display devices is needed.
Therefore, the embodiments of the invention provide touch display devices which use a design structure of a cover lens or a touch sensing element to make a gap between an upper component and a lower component of the touch display devices have a height at a center of the gap higher than a height at a periphery of the gap. This prevents the upper component from contacting the lower component of the touch display devices. Therefore, the Newton's ring phenomenon found with the conventional thin touch display device does not occur.
According to an illustrative embodiment, a touch display device is provided. The touch display device comprises a cover lens having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the first surface is a flat surface. A touch sensing element is disposed under the second surface of the cover lens. A display element is disposed under the touch sensing element. Furthermore, a border adhesive is disposed between the touch sensing element and the display element to form a gap surrounded by the border adhesive. The gap is formed between the touch sensing element and the display element, wherein a height at a center of the gap is higher than a height at a periphery of the gap, and the periphery of the gap is adjacent to the border adhesive.
According to an illustrative embodiment, a cover lens of a touch display device is provided. The cover lens comprises a glass substrate having a first surface located at a touch side and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the first surface is a flat surface and the second surface is a concave surface.
According to an illustrative embodiment, a bonding equipment for fabricating a touch display device is provided. The bonding equipment comprises a first tray component having a recess portion for carrying a cover lens and a second tray component having a recess portion for carrying a touch sensing element, wherein the recess portion of the second tray component is disposed opposite to the recess portion of the first tray component, and a bottom surface of the recess portion of the second tray component is a circular-arc type convex surface.
A detailed description is given in the following embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The present invention can be more fully understood by reading the subsequent detailed description and examples with references made to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
The following description is of the best-contemplated mode of carrying out the invention. This description is made for the purpose of illustrating the general principles of the invention and should not be taken in a limiting sense. The scope of the invention is best determined by reference to the appended claims.
Referring to
A touch sensing element 110 is disposed under the second surface 101B of the cover lens 101. The touch sensing element 110 can be bonded with the cover lens 101 by using an adhesive 103. The material of the adhesive 103 is for example a hydrogel. The touch sensing element 110 is conformally adhered to the second surface 101B of the cover lens 101, under the concave surface. In the embodiment, the touch sensing element 110 includes a substrate 105 and two touch sensing layers 107 and 109 formed on an outside and an inside surface of the substrate 105, respectively. The substrate 105 may be a glass substrate or a plastic film. The touch sensing layers 107 and 109 individually include a plurality of touch sensing electrodes which can be formed of transparent conductive materials. In addition, the touch sensing electrodes can be formed of any patterns which are dependent on design requirements for the touch sensing electrodes. Through the touch sensing electrodes of the touch sensing layers 107 and 109, an orientation at an X-axis direction and a Y-axis direction in the positions of the touch display device 200 touched by a user is provided.
In another embodiment, the touch sensing element 110 of
Furthermore, the touch display device 200 includes a display element 120 disposed under the touch sensing element 110. The display element 120 is for example a liquid crystal display panel or other kinds of display panels. The display element 120 is bonded with the touch sensing element 110 by a border adhesive 111. An air gap 113 is formed between the display element 120 and the touch sensing element 110, surrounded by the border adhesive 111. The border adhesive 111 is for example a twin adhesive. In an embodiment, the border adhesive 111 has a thickness T1 of about 0.3 mm or less than 0.3 mm.
In the embodiment, because the second surface 101B of the cover lens 101 has a concave surface and the touch sensing element 110 is conformally adhered under the concave surface, at a center 113C of the air gap 113 between the display element 120 and the touch sensing element 110 has a height H1 greater than a height H2 at a periphery 113P of the air gap 113, wherein the periphery 113P is adjacent to the border adhesive 111. According to the embodiments of the invention, the height H1 is higher than that of the height H2 by at least 0.2 mm, for example, the height H1 may be higher than that of the height H2 by 0.2 mm to 5 mm. According to the embodiments of the invention, even if the air gap 113 is decreased by reducing the thickness T1 of the border adhesive 111, a component disposed above the border adhesive 111, such as the touch sensing element 110, is still prevented from contacting with a component disposed under the border adhesive 111, such as the display element 120. Therefore, there is no Newton ring phenomenon produced in the touch display device 200.
Referring to
In the embodiment, because the lower side of the substrate 105 of the touch sensing element 110 is the fourth surface 105B of a concave shape, at a center of the air gap 113 between the display element 120 and the substrate 105 of the touch sensing element 110, there is a height greater than a height at a periphery of the air gap 113. According to the embodiments of the invention, the height at the center of the air gap 113 is higher than that of the height at the periphery of the air gap 113 by 0.2 mm to 5 mm. As a result, this can effectively prevent the substrate 105 of the touch sensing element 110 from contacting the display element 120. Therefore, there is no Newton ring phenomenon produced in the touch display device 200.
Referring to
In the embodiment of
In another embodiment, the touch sensing element 110 of
Referring to
In the embodiment, because the protection layer 117 is conformally formed on the concave second surface 101B of the cover lens 101, the protection layer 117 has the same concave shape as that of the concave second surface 101B. As a result, the air gap 113 produced between the protection layer 117 and the display element 120 has a height at a center of the air gap 113 which is higher than a height at a periphery of the air gap 113. The height at the center of the air gap 113 is higher than that of the height at the periphery of the air gap 113 by at least 0.2 mm to 5 mm. Thus, this can effectively prevent the touch sensing element 110 from contacting with the display element 120. Therefore, there is no Newton ring phenomenon produced in the touch display device 200.
Referring to
The bonding equipment 300 includes a first tray component 310, which has a recess portion 312 for carrying a cover lens 101. A bottom surface 314 of the recess portion 312 may be a flat surface. The bottom surface 314 is in contact with a first surface 101A of the cover lens 101. The bonding equipment 300 further includes a second tray component 320, which has a recess portion 322 for carrying a touch sensing element 110. The recess portion 322 of the second tray component 320 is disposed to face the recess portion 312 of the first tray component 310. Moreover, a bottom surface 324 of the recess portion 322 of the second tray component 320 may have a circular-arc type convex surface. The circular-arc type convex surface can help the touch sensing element 110 for conformally adhering to a second surface 101B of the cover lens 101, under a concave surface of the second surface 101B.
As shown in
After the bonding process of the cover lens 101 and the touch sensing element 110 is completed, the vacuum device is turned off to make the first tray component 310 and the second tray component 320 separate from each other, as shown in the arrow 350 of
According to the embodiments of the invention, the first surface 101A (outside surface) of the cover lens 101 of the touch display device 200 used as a touch side is kept in a flat state and the display element 120 is also kept in a sheet structure without bends and warped. From an overall view of the touch display device 200, the touch display device 200 has a structure without bends and warped. Through the design of the second surface 101B (inside surface) of the cover lens 101 having a concave shape surface and the touch sensing element 110 being conformally adhered under the concave shape surface, the air gap 113, surrounded by the border adhesive 111, between the display element 120 and the touch sensing element 110 has a characteristic of having a height at a center of the air gap 113 which is higher than a height at a periphery of the air gap 113. In another way, when the second surface 101B of the cover lens 101 is kept in a flat state, through the design of the fourth surface 105B (inside surface) of the substrate 105 of the touch sensing element 110 having a concave shape surface, the air gap 113, surrounded by the border adhesive 111, between the display element 120 and the touch sensing element 110 also has the characteristic of a having a height at a center of the air gap 113 which is higher than a height at a periphery of the air gap 113. Thus, the embodiments of the invention can effectively prevent the component disposed above the border adhesive 111 from contacting with the component disposed under the border adhesive 111. Accordingly, there is no Newton ring phenomenon produced in the touch display devices 200. Furthermore, the quality of displaying images of the touch display devices 200 is also enhanced.
While the invention has been described by way of example and in terms of the preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. To the contrary, it is intended to cover various modifications and similar arrangements (as would be apparent to those skilled in the art). Therefore, the scope of the appended claims should be accorded the broadest interpretation so as to encompass all such modifications and similar arrangements.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
---|---|---|---|
201210196476.8 | Jun 2012 | TW | national |