This application is the National Stage of PCT/CN2014/084575 filed on Aug. 16, 2014, which claims priority under 35 U.S.C. ยง119 of Chinese Application No. 201410157705.4 filed on Apr. 18, 2014, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference.
At least one embodiment of the present invention relates to a touch display panel and a display device.
With the fast development of display technology, touch display panels have gradually become popular in people's life. At present, according to constitution structure, touch screens may be classified into add-on mode touch panels, on-cell touch panels and in-cell touch panels. For an add-on mode touch panel, the touch panel and the liquid crystal display (LCD) are produced separately and then attached together to form a liquid crystal display with touch function. Add-on mode touch panels suffer disadvantages such as high manufacturing cost, low light transmission rate and a big assembly thickness. For an in-cell touch panel, touch electrodes of the touch panel are embedded inside the liquid crystal display, which can reduce the overall thickness of the assembly, and can drastically reduce manufacturing cost of the touch panel. Therefore, in-cell touch panels have received more attention from panel manufacturers.
At present, an in-cell touch panel detects the touch position of a finger in accordance with the mutual capacitance or self-capacitance principle. For the self-capacitance principle, it is possible to provide a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes that are disposed in the same layer and insulated from each other in the touch panel. When a human body does not touch the screen, each self-capacitance electrode experiences a capacitance of fixed value. When the human body touches the screen, corresponding self-capacitance electrodes experience capacitance that is the fixed value plus the body capacitance. The touch sensing chip can determine the touch position by detecting capacitance value variation of self-capacitance electrodes in the touch period. Since the body capacitance can act on all the self-capacitances, as compared to the fact that the body capacity can only act on projection capacitance in mutual capacitance principle, the touch variation caused by the body touching the screen is greater than that of the touch panel manufactured in mutual capacitance principle. Therefore, as compared to touch panels utilizing the mutual capacitance principle, touch panels utilizing self-capacitance principle can effectively increase signal-to-noise ratio of the touch and thereby improve accuracy of touch sensing.
While designing a touch panel in the self-capacitance principle, each self-capacitance electrode is connected with the touch sensing chip via a separate lead-out wire. As shown in
At least one embodiment of the present invention provides a touch panel and a display device to reduce touch dead zone of touch panels utilizing self-capacitance principle.
At least one embodiment of the present invention provides a touch panel comprising: a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes disposed in a same layer and independent from each other; a plurality of wires connecting the self-capacitance electrodes to a margin frame of the touch panel, wherein each of the wires is electrically connected with at least two self-capacitance electrodes that are provided non-adjacent to each other and self-capacitance electrodes electrically connected with different wires do not overlap with each other; and periphery wirings located at the margin frame of the touch panel and connected with the wires in a one-to-one manner.
At least one embodiment of the present invention provides a display device comprising the above-mentioned touch panel.
In order to clearly illustrate the technical solution of the embodiments of the invention, 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 invention and thus are not limitative of the invention.
In order to make objects, technical details and advantages of the embodiments of the invention 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 invention. Apparently, the described embodiments are just a part but not all of the embodiments of the invention. 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 invention.
Thicknesses and shapes of layers in the accompanying drawings do not reflect real scale, and only serve to illustrate contents of the present invention.
The inventors of the present application have noted that in the case as shown in
At least one embodiment of the present invention provides a touch panel, as shown in
The above-mentioned touch panel provided in an embodiment of the present invention may be applied to add-on mode touch panels or in-cell touch panels. When applied to an in-cell touch panel, in one embodiment, as shown in
In the above-mentioned touch panel provided in embodiments of the present invention, at least two self-capacitance electrodes 04 that are provided non-adjacent to each other are connected to the margin frame of the touch panel via a wire 05 and then connected to the touch sensing chip via a corresponding periphery wiring 07 for touch position detection. Connecting a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes 04 that are not adjacent to each other to one wire 05 can effectively reduce the overall number of wires 05 in the touch panel, thereby reducing the area occupied by a touch dead zone and guaranteeing touch performance. Furthermore, the number of corresponding periphery wirings 07 decreases along with the decrease of the number of wires 05, which is also advantageous for the design of a narrow margin frame of the touch panel.
Furthermore, since a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes 04 that are provided non-adjacent to each other are connected via one wire 05, and adjacent self-capacitance electrodes 04 are connected to the margin frame via different wires 05, when a human body touches the screen, the touch sensing chip can determine touch position by determining capacitance variation of adjacent self-capacitance electrodes 04 connected with different wires 05, which can avoid misjudgment and improve accuracy of touch sensing. Taking the connection of self-capacitance electrodes as shown in
In one embodiment, as shown in
Since both patterns of self-capacitance electrodes 04 and patterns of wires 05 are disposed in the region corresponding to the pattern of black matrix layer 03, electric field generated by self-capacitance electrodes 04 will not influence electric field in the pixel opening region, and therefore will not influence the normal display. Self-capacitance electrodes 04 disposed in the region blocked by the pattern of the black matrix layer 03 may also avoid influencing transmittance of the touch panel.
The resolution for a touch panel is generally on the order of millimeter. Therefore, in one embodiment, it is possible to choose the density of and the area occupied by self-capacitance electrodes 04 according to the required touch resolution to ensure the required touch resolution. Generally, self-capacitance electrodes 04 are designed as square electrodes having the size of 5 mm*5 mm. The resolution for display screen is generally on the order of micron, and therefore one self-capacitance electrode 04 generally may correspond to a plurality of pixel units in the display screen. In order to ensure that the patterns of self-capacitance electrodes 04 do not occupy opening areas for pixel units, as shown in
In a different embodiment, wires 05 and self-capacitance electrodes 04 may be disposed on the same substrate, that is, both are disposed on the top substrate 01 or on the bottom substrate 02; and periphery wirings 07 and connection terminals 06 of the touch sensing chip may be disposed on the bottom substrate 02. For example, when wires 05 and self-capacitance electrodes 04 are disposed on the top substrate 01, wires 05 may be electrically connected with periphery wirings 07 on the bottom substrate 02 by the conduction effect of conducting particles such as gold balls in sealant. For example, when wires 05 and self-capacitance electrodes 04 are disposed on the bottom substrate 02, wires 05 may be electrically connected with periphery wirings 07 of the bottom substrate 02 directly.
In one embodiment, In order to reduce the number of layers and patterning processes in the touch panel as many as possible, it is possible to dispose wires 05 and self-capacitance electrodes 04 on the same layer. Because patterns of self-capacitance electrodes 04 and wires 05 are designed with one layer of metal, in order to avoid short circuit between self-capacitance electrodes 04, wires 05 for connecting self-capacitance electrodes 04 should not cross each other. Therefore, in this case it is possible to adopt the manner as shown in
In one embodiment, in designing extension directions of wires 05, it is possible to design the extension directions of all wires 05 to be identical. Generally, the margin frame of a touch panel is of a rectangle shape. In one embodiment, in order to reduce the area of a touch dead zone, it is possible to configure the extension direction of wires 05 to be consistent with the direction of the short side of the margin frame of the touch panel so as to reduce the area of the touch dead zone by shortening the length of wires 05 connecting the self-capacitance electrodes 04 as much as possible.
In one embodiment, in order to reduce the area of the touch dead zone as much as possible, the margin frame of the touch panel generally have four sides and it is possible to connect self-capacitance electrodes 04 to the closest side via corresponding wires 05 as well as ensure wires 05 do not cross each other. This can shorten the length of wires 05 connecting self-capacitance electrodes 04 as much as possible, and reduce the area of the touch dead zone as much as possible as a whole.
The above-mentioned design for reducing a touch dead zone provided in the embodiment of the present invention will be described with respect to a 5-inch touch panel as an example in which about 22*12=264 self-capacitance electrodes 04 are needed. As shown in
In the touch panel provided in one embodiment of the present invention, as shown in
In the touch panel provided in one embodiment of the present invention, as shown in
In one embodiment, in order to eliminate the touch dead zone in the touch panel, it is possible to dispose self-capacitance electrodes 04 and wires 05 in different layers and electrically connect self-capacitance electrodes 04 with corresponding wires 05 through via holes. When self-capacitance electrodes 04 and wires 05 are disposed in different layers, in order to reduce interference of body capacitance with respect to signals that are transmitted on wires, it is possible to dispose self-capacitance electrodes 04 between the black matrix layer 03 and the color filter layer and dispose wires 05 on the color filter layer. Wires 05 are connected with self-capacitance electrodes 04 through via holes in the color filter layer such that self-capacitance electrodes 04 may shield signal interference invoked by wires 05 covered by themselves.
In the above-mentioned touch panel provided in the embodiment of the present invention, since patterns of self-capacitance electrodes 04 are blocked by the pattern of black matrix layer, the total area of the pattern of the mesh structure of the self-capacitance electrodes 04 is limited by the area of the pattern of a black matrix layer 03. In order to increase the area of patterns of self-capacitance electrodes 04 as much as possible so as to enhance the touch sensitivity, in at least one embodiment, as shown in
In the touch panel provided in the embodiment of the present invention, because the body capacitance act on the self-capacitance of self-capacitance electrodes 04 in a direct coupling mode, when a human body touches the screen, only the self-capacitance electrodes 04 directly under the touch position is subjected to significant change in their capacitance value, while self-capacitance electrodes 04 adjacent to self-capacitance electrodes 04 directly under the touch position is subjected to very slight change their capacitance value. In this way, when the human body touches an area smaller than that of one self-capacitance electrode, the touch position might not be located accurately. Therefore, in the touch panel provided in one embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to configure opposite sides of two adjacent self-capacitance electrodes 04 as fold lines such that the touch position of the human body can always cover the areas of a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes, therefore it is possible to determine the touch position in the way provided in the embodiment of the present invention.
For example, it is possible to set the overall shape of self-capacitance electrodes 04 in one of the following ways or in the combination thereof.
(1) The opposite sides of two adjacent self-capacitance electrodes 04 that are fold lines may be configured as step-like structures such that two opposite step-like structures have consistent and matching structural shapes as shown in
(2) The opposite sides of two adjacent self-capacitance electrodes 04 that are fold lines may be configured as concave-convex structures such that two opposite concave-convex structures have consistent and matching structural shapes as shown in
In one embodiment, in order to reduce mutual interference between display signals and touch signals and enhance picture quality and touch accuracy, in the above-mentioned touch panel provided in the embodiment of the present invention, time-division driving mode may be employed for touch and display phases. Also, in one embodiment, it is also possible to integrate the display driving chip and the touch sensing chip as one chip to further reduce the production costs.
In one embodiment, For example, in the driving timing sequence diagram shown in
Based on the same inventive concept, at least one embodiment of the present invention further provides a display device comprising the above-mentioned touch panel provided in embodiments of the present invention. The display device may be any product or component having display function such as a cell phone, a tablet computer, a TV set, a display, a notebook computer, a digital picture frame and a navigator. The above-mentioned embodiments of the touch panel may be referred to for implementations of the display device, and redundant descriptions will not be repeated any more.
For the touch panel and display device provided in embodiments of the present invention, self-capacitance principle is utilized to dispose a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes arranged in the same layer and independent from each other, at least two self-capacitance electrodes that are provided non-adjacent to each other are connected to the margin frame of touch panel via one wire and then connected to the touch sensing chip for touch position detection via one corresponding periphery wiring. Connecting a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes that are not adjacent to each other to one wire can effectively reduce the overall number of wires in the touch panel, thereby reducing the area of the touch dead zone and guaranteeing touch performance. Furthermore, the number of corresponding periphery wirings decreases with the decrease of the number of wires, which is also advantageous for the design of a narrow margin frame of the touch panel. Furthermore, since a plurality self-capacitance electrodes that are provided non-adjacent to each other are connected via one wire, and adjacent self-capacitance electrodes are connected to the margin frame via different wires, when a human body touches the screen, the touch sensing chip can determine the touch position by determining capacitance variation of adjacent self-capacitance electrodes connected with different wires, which can avoid misjudgment and realize accuracy of touch sensing.
It is understood that one skilled in the art can make various modifications and variations to the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Thus, if these modifications and variations of the present invention fall within the scope of claims and their equivalents of the present invention, it is intended that the present invention contains these modifications and variations.
The present application claims priority of China Patent application No. 201410157705.4 filed on Apr. 18, 2014, the content of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety as part of the present application.
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