Pressure detecting device and touch panel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016092016-A1
Application number	US-201414891165-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 16, 2014
Priority date	May 16, 2013
Publication date	Mar 31, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The invention provides a pressure detecting device containing a pressurized member having a contact surface that is subjected to pressure due to contact with a pressurizing means; and a piezoelectric member that is arranged facing the pressurized member and that includes a polymeric piezoelectric material having a piezoelectric constant d 14 of 1 pm/V or more as measured by a displacement method at 25° C., and a ratio IEb/IEa between a product IEb of a cross-sectional secondary moment Ib and a Young's modulus Eb of the pressurized member, and a product IEa of a cross-sectional secondary moment Ia and a Young's modulus Ea of the piezoelectric member, is in a range of from 10 2 to 10 10 .

First claim

1 . A pressure detecting device comprising:
a pressurized member having a contact surface that is subjected to pressure due to contact with a pressurizing means; and a piezoelectric member that is arranged facing the pressurized member and that includes a polymeric piezoelectric material having a piezoelectric constant d 14 of 1 pm/V or more as measured by a displacement method at 25° C., wherein a ratio IEb/IEa between a product IEb of a cross-sectional secondary moment Ib and a Young's modulus Eb of the pressurized member, and a product IEa of a cross-sectional secondary moment Ia and a Young's modulus Ea of the piezoelectric member, is in a range of from 10 2 to 10 10 .

2 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein the ratio IEb/IEa is in a range of from 10 4 to 10 9 .

3 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein the ratio IEb/IEa is in a range of from 10 5 to 10 8 .

4 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a support means configured to support the pressurized member against pressure that is applied from the contact surface; and a support means configured to support the piezoelectric member against pressure that is applied from the contact surface through the pressurized member.

5 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein a direction in which pressure is applied from the contact surface and a molecular orientation direction of the polymeric piezoelectric material cross each other.

6 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the pressurized member is in a range of from 0.2 mm to 20 mm.

7 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein the Young's modulus Eb of the pressurized member is from 1 GPa to 200 GPa.

8 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 1 , further comprising a relaxing portion that has a Young's modulus of 0.1 GPa or less and that is provided on an opposite side, from the pressurized member side, of the piezoelectric member.

9 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein the polymeric piezoelectric material contains a helical chiral polymer having a weight average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000 and optical activity, and has a crystallinity as obtained by a DSC method of from 20% to 80%, and a product of a standardized molecular orientation MORc, which is measured with a microwave transmission-type molecular orientation meter at a reference thickness of 50 μm, and the crystallinity is from 40 to 700.

10 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein an internal haze of the polymeric piezoelectric material with respect to visible light is 10% or less.

11 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 9 , wherein the MORc is from 3.5 to 15.0.

12 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 9 , wherein the helical chiral polymer is a polylactic acid-based polymer having a main chain that contains a repeating unit represented by the following Formula (1):

13 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 9 , wherein the helical chiral polymer has an optical purity of 95.00% ee or more.

14 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 9 , wherein a content of the helical chiral polymer in the polymeric piezoelectric material is 80% by mass or more.

15 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 9 , wherein the polymeric piezoelectric material further contains a stabilizer:
having one or more functional groups selected from the group consisting of a carbodiimide group, an epoxy group, and an isocyanate group, having a weight average molecular weight of from 200 to 60,000, and being contained in an amount from 0.01 parts by mass to 10 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the helical chiral polymer.

16 . The pressure detecting device according to claim 15 , wherein the stabilizer has, in one molecule, one functional group selected from the group consisting of a carbodiimide group, an epoxy group, and an isocyanate group.

17 . A touch panel comprising the pressure detecting device according to claim 1 and a display device.

Assignees

• Mitsui Chemicals Inc
• Murata Manufacturing Co

Inventors

• Yoshida Mitsunobu
• Tanimoto Kazuhiro
• Nishikawa Shigeo

Classifications

• G06F3/041

  Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means · CPC title

• G06F2203/04105

  Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch surface without providing the touch position · CPC title

• G01L1/16

  using properties of piezoelectric devices · CPC title

• C08L67/04

  Polyesters derived from hydroxycarboxylic acids, e.g. lactones (C08L67/06 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/0414 Primary

  using force sensing means to determine a position · CPC title