IP Library Granted Patent US 8,503,067
Granted Patent B2
US 8,503,067 · App. 13/238,758 · Granted Aug 6, 2013

Display sheet, display device, and electronic apparatus

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Patent No.
US 8,503,067
App. No.
13/238,758
Granted
Aug 6, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device includes a substrate that is provided on a display face side, an opposed substrate that is provided opposing the substrate, a display layer that is provided between the substrate and the opposed substrate and is filled with a dispersion liquid in which white particles and black particles are dispersed in a dispersion medium, and a particle constrained layer that is provided in the display layer to allow the particles to move in a thickness direction of the display layer and to prevent the particles from moving in an in-plane direction of the display layer. A void ratio of the particle constrained layer of the substrate side is higher than that of the opposed substrate side.

Claims (27)

1. A display sheet comprising:

a first substrate that is provided on a display face side;

a second substrate that is provided opposing the first substrate;

a display layer that is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and is filled with a dispersion liquid in which at least one kind of positively or negatively charged particles are dispersed in a dispersion medium; and

a particle constrained layer that is provided in the display layer,

wherein a void ratio of the first substrate side of the particle constrained layer is higher than that of the second substrate side, on the first substrate side.

2. The display sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the particle constrained layer has a first particle constrained layer provided on the first substrate side and a second particle constrained layer provided closer to the second substrate side than the first particle constrained layer, and

wherein the void ratio of the first particle constrained layer is higher than that of the second particle constrained layer.

3. A display sheet comprising:

a first substrate that is provided on a display face side;

a second substrate that is provided opposing the first substrate;

a display layer that is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and is filled with a dispersion liquid in which at least one kind of positively or negatively charged particles are dispersed in a dispersion medium; and

a particle constrained layer that is provided in the display layer,

wherein the particle constrained layer has a first particle constrained layer provided on the first substrate side and a second particle constrained layer provided closer to the second substrate side than the first particle constrained layer, and

wherein the void ratio of the first particle constrained layer is higher than that of the second particle constrained layer.

4. The display sheet according to claim 2 , wherein the particle constrained layer allows the particles to move in a thickness direction of the display layer and prevents the particles from moving in an in-plain direction of the display layer.

5. The display sheet according to claim 2 , wherein the void ratio of the first particle constrained layer is equal to or more than 70% and equal to or less than 99%, and

wherein the void ratio of the second particle constrained layer is equal to or more than 50% and equal to or less than 90%.

6. The display sheet according to claim 2 , wherein a value of H1/H2 is equal to or more than 0.1 and equal to less than 0.5 where a thickness of the first particle constrained layer is H1 and a thickness of the second particle constrained layer is H2.

7. The display sheet according to claim 2 , wherein the first particle constrained layer is separated from the first substrate, and the separation distance between the first particle constrained layer and the first substrate is equal to or more than 0.5 times and equal to or less than 5 times an average particle diameter of the particles.

8. The display sheet according to claim 2 , wherein the particle constrained layer further includes a third particle constrained layer that is provided closer to the second substrate side than the second particle constrained layer, and a void ratio of the third particle constrained layer is higher than that of the second particle constrained layer.

9. The display sheet according to claim 8 , wherein the void ratio of the third particle constrained layer is equal to or more than 70% and equal to or less than 99%.

10. The display sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the particle constrained layer has at least one of a porous body and an aggregate of fibers.

11. The display sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the dispersion liquid includes positively or negatively charged first particles, and second particles charged having polarity reverse to that of the first particles, and

wherein average particle diameters of the first particles and the second particles are substantially the same.

12. A display device comprising the display sheet according to claim 1 .

13. An electronic apparatus comprising the display device according to claim 1 .

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: OGAWA, SATOSHI
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 026980/0377 →