IP Library Granted Patent US 8,570,641
Granted Patent B2
US 8,570,641 · App. 13/238,375 · Granted Oct 29, 2013

Display sheet, display device, and electronic apparatus

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Patent No.
US 8,570,641
App. No.
13/238,375
Granted
Oct 29, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device includes a substrate that is provided on a display surface side, an opposing substrate that is arranged opposing the substrate, and a display layer that is provided between the substrate and the opposing substrate. The display layer includes a three-dimensional elastic body that is impregnated by a dispersion liquid in which at least one type of particle that is positively or negatively charged is dispersed in a dispersion medium and a bonding layer that is provided between the three-dimensional mesh-like elastic body and the substrate and which bonds the three-dimensional mesh-like elastic body to the substrate.

Claims (25)

1. A display sheet comprising:

a first substrate;

a second substrate that is arranged opposing the first substrate;

a display layer that is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, the display layer including:

a three-dimensional elastic body that is impregnated by a dispersion liquid in which at least one type of particle that is positively or negatively charged is dispersed in a dispersion medium; and

a first substrate side bonding layer that is provided between the three-dimensional mesh-like elastic body and the first substrate and which bonds the three-dimensional mesh-like elastic body to the first substrate;

an electrode provided between the first substrate and the display layer; and

a plurality of pixel electrodes provided between the second substrate and the display layer, the pixel electrodes being arranged in a matrix of individually addressable pixels, and

wherein both the first substrate side bonding layer and the second substrate side bonding layer are configured by a thermoplastic resin with a lower softening temperature than the three-dimensional mesh-like elastic body.

2. The display sheet according to claim 1 ,

wherein the display layer further includes a second substrate side bonding layer that is provided between the three-dimensional mesh-like elastic body and the second substrate and which bonds the three-dimensional mesh-like elastic body to the second substrate.

3. The display sheet according to claim 1 ,

wherein both the first substrate and the second substrate are flexible.

4. The display sheet according to claim 1 ,

wherein the three-dimensional mesh-like elastic body is configured by an amphiphilic polymer including both a lipophilic group and a hydrophilic group.

5. The display sheet according to claim 1 ,

wherein the three-dimensional mesh-like elastic body is configured by a thermoplastic polymer.

6. The display sheet according to claim 1 ,

wherein in the three-dimensional mesh-like elastic body, the first substrate side has a greater porosity than the second substrate side.

7. The display sheet according to claim 1 ,

wherein the three-dimensional mesh-like elastic body exhibits a different color from that of the particle.

8. The display sheet according to claim 1 ,

wherein both the first substrate side bonding layer and the second substrate side bonding layer have a lower porosity than the three-dimensional mesh-like elastic body.

9. A display device including the display sheet according to claim 1 .

10. An electronic apparatus including the display device according to claim 9 .

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 13, 2018
From: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
To: E INK CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 047072/0325 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 21, 2011
From: HAYASHI, KENJI; YAMADA, TADASHI
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 026979/0107 →