In-cell touch display panel structure with metal shielding layer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017192614-A1
Application number	US-201615394028-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 29, 2016
Priority date	Dec 31, 2015
Publication date	Jul 6, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

In an in-cell touch display panel, a TFT layer includes plural thin film transistors, plural data lines and plural scan lines. A common voltage electrode layer includes plural common voltage electrodes capable of being switched to serve as touch sensing electrodes, each touch sensing electrode including a common voltage electrode. A metal mesh shielding layer is disposed between the TFT layer and the common voltage electrode layer. The metal mesh shielding layer includes plural metal lines arranged in rows and columns. The metal lines are disposed at locations corresponding to those of the data lines and scan lines, and are formed into a shielding area and plural touch electrode traces. In the shielding area, the metal mesh lines are electrically connected together, and each touch electrode trace is connected to a touch sensing electrode, while the shielding area is not electrically connected to the touch electrode traces.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An in-cell touch display panel structure with metal mesh shielding, comprising:
a first substrate; a second substrate arranged in parallel with the first substrate, wherein a display material layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a thin film transistor layer arranged on one surface of the second substrate facing the display material layer and having a plurality of thin film transistors, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of scan lines; a common voltage electrode layer arranged on one surface of the thin film transistor layer facing the display material layer and having a plurality of common voltage electrodes capable of being switched to serve as touch sensing electrodes, wherein each of the touch sensing electrodes is composed of at least one common voltage electrode; a pixel electrode layer arranged on one surface of the common voltage electrode layer facing the display material layer and having a plurality of pixel electrodes; a metal mesh shielding layer disposed between the common voltage electrode layer and the thin film transistor layer and patterned to be a plurality of metal mesh lines arranged in rows and columns, wherein the metal mesh lines are disposed at locations corresponding to those of the data lines and the scan lines, the metal mesh lines are formed into a shielding area composed of more than one metal mesh lines connected together and a plurality of touch electrode traces each being at least one mesh metal line, the shielding area is not electrically to the plurality of touch electrode traces, and each of the touch electrode traces is connected to one touch sensing electrode; a plurality of selection switches, wherein the touch electrode trace of each of the touch sensing electrodes is connected to at least one of the selection switches; and a touch detection circuit coupled to the touch sensing electrodes for performing touch sensing.

2 . The in-cell touch display panel structure with metal mesh shielding as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the plurality of touch selection switches sequentially or dynamically select at least one touch sensing electrode to perform touch sensing and apply a touch signal to the selected touch sensing electrode.

3 . The in-cell touch display panel structure with metal mesh shielding as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the touch detection circuit includes at least one self-capacitance detection circuit and at least one amplifier circuit with a gain greater than zero.

4 . The in-cell touch display panel structure with metal mesh shielding as claimed in claim 3 , wherein a touch sensing signal from the selected touch sensing electrode is inputted to the at least one self-capacitance detection circuit.

5 . The in-cell touch display panel structure with metal mesh shielding as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the touch sensing signal is inputted to the amplifier circuit with a gain greater than zero to generate an in-phase signal outputted to the shielding area of the metal mesh lines.

6 . The in-cell touch display panel structure with metal mesh shielding as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the touch detection circuit further applies an in-phase signal of the touch signal to the shielding area of the metal mesh lines.

7 . The in-cell touch display panel structure with metal mesh shielding as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the metal mesh line has a width not smaller than that of the scan line or the data line disposed corresponding to the metal mesh line.

8 . An in-cell touch display device with metal mesh shielding, comprising:
a first substrate; a second substrate arranged in parallel with the first substrate, wherein a display material layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a thin film transistor layer arranged on one surface of the second substrate facing the display material layer and having a plurality of thin film transistors, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of scan lines; a common voltage electrode layer arranged on one surface of the thin film transistor layer facing the display material layer and having a plurality of common voltage electrodes capable of being switched to serve as touch sensing electrodes, wherein each of the touch sensing electrodes is composed of at least one common voltage electrode; a pixel electrode layer arranged on one surface of the common voltage electrode layer facing the display material layer and having a plurality of pixel electrodes; a metal mesh shielding layer disposed between the common voltage electrode layer and the thin film transistor layer and patterned to be a plurality of metal mesh lines arranged in rows and columns, wherein the metal mesh lines are formed into a shielding area composed of more than one metal mesh lines connected together and a plurality of touch electrode traces each being at least one mesh metal line, the shielding area is not electrically connected to the plurality of touch electrode traces, the metal mesh lines of the shielding area are disposed at locations corresponding to those of the data lines and the scan lines, each of the plurality of touch electrode traces is disposed at a location in-between two data lines or in-between two scan lines, wherein each of the touch sensing electrodes is connected to at least one of the plurality of touch electrode traces; a plurality of selection switches, wherein the touch electrode trace of each of the touch sensing electrodes is connected to at least one selection switch; and a touch detection circuit coupled to the touch sensing electrodes for performing touch sensing.

9 . The in-cell touch display device with metal mesh shielding as claimed in claim 8 , further comprises:
a black matrix shielding layer arranged on one surface of the first substrate facing the display material layer and having a plurality of opaque shielding lines, wherein the plurality of opaque shielding lines are disposed at locations corresponding to those of the metal mesh lines of the shielding area of the metal mesh shielding layer and the plurality of touch electrode traces.

10 . The in-cell touch display device with metal mesh shielding as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the plurality of touch selection switches sequentially or dynamically select at least one touch sensing electrode to perform touch sensing and apply a touch signal to the selected touch sensing electrode.

11 . The in-cell touch display device with metal mesh shielding as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the touch detection circuit includes at least one self-capacitance detection circuit and at least one amplifier circuit with a gain greater than zero.

12 . The in-cell touch display device with metal mesh shielding as claimed in claim 11 , wherein a touch sensing signal from the selected touch sensing electrode is inputted to the at least one self-capacitance detection circuit.

13 . The in-cell touch display device with metal mesh shielding as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the touch sensing signal is inputted to the amplifier circuit with a gain greater than zero for generating an in-phase signal outputted to the shielding area of the metal mesh lines.

14 . The in-cell touch display device with metal mesh shielding as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the touch detection circuit further applies an in-phase signal of the touch signal to the shielding area of the metal mesh lines.

15 . The in-cell touch display device with metal mesh shielding as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the metal mesh line has a width not smaller than that of the scan line or the data line disposed corresponding to the metal mesh

Assignees

• Superc Touch Corp

Inventors

• Lee Hsiang-Yu
• Chin Shang
• Lin Ping-Tsun

Classifications

• G06F3/0412 Primary

  Digitisers structurally integrated in a display · CPC title

• G06F3/044 Primary

  by capacitive means · CPC title

• G06F2203/04112

  Electrode mesh in capacitive digitiser: electrode for touch sensing is formed of a mesh of very fine, normally metallic, interconnected lines that are almost invisible to see. This provides a quite large but transparent electrode surface, without need for ITO or similar transparent conductive material · CPC title

• G06F2203/04107

  Shielding in digitiser, i.e. guard or shielding arrangements, mostly for capacitive touchscreens, e.g. driven shields, driven grounds · CPC title

• G06F2203/04103

  Manufacturing, i.e. details related to manufacturing processes specially suited for touch sensitive devices · CPC title