Adhesive film and touch panel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9534149-B2
Application number	US-201113510066-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 14, 2011
Priority date	Mar 16, 2010
Publication date	Jan 3, 2017
Grant date	Jan 3, 2017

Abstract

The present invention relates to an adhesive film and to a touch panel. According to the present invention, even when the adhesive film is applied to a touch panel, for example, a capacitive touch panel, and directly attached to a conductive layer, the adhesive film effectively prevents the resistance of the conductive layer from being raised and exhibits good heat resistance. In addition, according to the present invention, an adhesive film having superior durability, optical characteristics, cuttability, workability, wettability and resistance to warping is provided.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A touch panel, comprising:
a first conductive plastic film;
a second conductive plastic film,
wherein each of the first conductive plastic film and second conductive plastic film comprises a polyethylene terephthalate film having an indium tin oxide (ITO) layer formed on one side thereof;

an adhesive film disposed between the first conductive plastic film and the second conductive plastic film,
wherein the adhesive film comprises:
a first adhesive layer having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface of the first adhesive layer of the adhesive film is attached to the ITO layer of the first conductive plastic film; and
a second adhesive layer having a first surface and a second surface,
wherein the first adhesive layer satisfies Equation 1:

Δ
⁢

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R

=

R
l

-

R
i

R
i

×
100

<
20

,

where ΔR a resistance variation rate, R i is an initial resistance of the ITO layer in a sample prepared by cutting the adhesive film into a 4×3 cm size, and R l is resistance of the ITO layer measured after the sample was left at 60° C. and 90% RH for 10 days,
wherein the first adhesive layer comprises a cured product of an adhesive composition including a first acrylic resin, the first acrylic resin is free of a carboxylic group,
wherein the first acrylic resin comprises a polymer of a monomer mixture including a (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer and a cross-linking monomer,
wherein the (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer comprises an alkyl (meth)acrylate having a C4 to C16 alkyl group,
wherein the cross-linking monomer comprises a hydroxyl group containing monomer, and
wherein the second surface of the first adhesive layer is directly attached to the second surface of the second adhesive layer, and the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer comprise different materials,

wherein the first adhesive layer has a thickness of 1 μm to 50 μm,
wherein the second adhesive layer has a thickness of 10 μm to 250 μm,
wherein the first acrylic resin is prepared by putting 65 parts by weight of ethylhexyl acrylate (EHA), 25 parts by weight of methyl acrylate (MA), and 10 parts by weight of hydroxybutyl acrylate (HBA) into a first 1 L reactor equipped with a reflux condenser, adding ethyl acetate (EAc) as a solvent, stirring, after oxygen was purged from the reactor with nitrogen gas for 1 hour, the mixture while maintaining temperature at 62° C., adding 0.03 parts by weight of azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) diluted with ethyl acetate to 50% as a reaction initiator, and reacting the mixture for about 8 hours, and
wherein the second adhesive layer comprises a second acrylic resin which is prepared by putting 90 parts by weight of ethylhexyl acrylate (EHA) and 10 parts by weight acrylic acid (AA) into the first 1 L reactor or a second 1 L reactor equipped with a reflux condenser, adding ethyl acetate (EAc) as a solvent, stirring, after oxygen was purged from the reactor with nitrogen gas for 1 hour, the mixture while maintaining temperature at 62° C., adding 0.03 parts by weight of azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) diluted with ethyl acetate to 50% as a reaction initiator, and reacting the mixture for about 8 hours.

2. The touch panel of claim 1 , wherein the cured product of the adhesive composition includes a multifunctional cross-linker.

3. The touch panel of claim 1 , further comprising:
a third adhesive layer having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface of the third adhesive layer of the additional adhesive film is attached to the ITO layer of the second conductive plastic film; and
a fourth adhesive layer having a first surface and a second surface,
wherein the second surface of the third adhesive layer is directly attached to the second surface of the fourth adhesive layer, the third adhesive layer and the fourth adhesive layer comprise different materials.

4. The touch panel of claim 1 , wherein the first adhesive layer further includes a silane coupling agent.

5. The touch panel of claim 4 , wherein the silane coupling agent includes one or a mixture of more than one selected from the group consisting of γ-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane, γ-glycidoxypropylmethyldiethoxysilane, γ-glycidoxypropyltriethoxysilane, 3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane, vinyltrimethoxysilane, vinyltriethoxysilane, γ-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane, γ-methacryloxypropyltriethoxysilane, γ-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane, γ-aminopropyltriethoxysilane, 3-isocyanatopropyltriethoxysilane, and γ-acetoacetatetripropyltrimethoxysilane.

6. The touch panel of claim 4 , wherein the silane coupling agent is included in the first adhesive layer in an amount of 0.005 to 5% by weight based on 100% by weight of the acrylic resin.

Assignees

• Kim Jang-Soon
• Song Min-Seok
• Lee Eok-Hyung
• Choi Won-Gu
• Lee Jae-Gwan
• Lee Yong-Hoon
• Han Hak-Rhim
• Lg Hausys Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Jang-Soon
• Song Min-Seok
• Lee Eok-Hyung
• Choi Won-Gu
• Lee Jae-Gwan
• Lee Yong-Hoon
• Han Hak-Rhim

Classifications

• C09J183/04

  Polysiloxanes · CPC title

• Y10T428/24942

  including components having same physical characteristic in differing degree · CPC title

• C09J2201/36

  Chemistry & Metallurgy · mapped topic

• C09J2433/00

  Presence of (meth)acrylic polymer · CPC title

• C09J4/00 Primary

  Adhesives based on organic non-macromolecular compounds having at least one polymerisable carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bond {; adhesives, based on monomers of macromolecular compounds of groups C09J183/00 - C09J183/16} · CPC title