Display apparatus with touch detection function and electronic apparatus
View Patent ↗A display apparatus with a touch detection function includes: a substrate; a display area including a plurality of pixels; a touch detection electrode including a plurality of small electrode portions; a plurality of wiring portions electrically coupling the small electrode portions to a terminal portion formed; and a plurality of drive electrodes forming capacitance between the drive electrodes and the touch detection electrode. The small electrode portions each include one conductive thin wire in which one first thin wire segment and one second thin wire segment are coupled in a first direction, the first thin wire segment makes a first angle with respect to the first direction, the second thin wire segment makes a second angle with respect to the first direction, and the wiring portions each include the one first thin wire segment and the one second thin wire segment that are coupled in the first direction.
1. A display apparatus with a touch detection function comprising:
a substrate;
a display area that includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a plane parallel to a principal surface of the substrate;
a touch detection electrode that includes a plurality of small electrode portions arranged in a plane parallel to the principal surface of the substrate, the small electrode portions each including a plurality of conductive thin wires;
a plurality of wiring portions that electrically couple the small electrode portions to a terminal portion formed outside the display area;
a dummy electrode portion extending in a first direction and being disposed between the small electrode portions that are adjacent in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the dummy electrode portion including a plurality of dummy electrodes comprising thin wire fragments disposed separately from each other; and a plurality of drive electrodes that form capacitance between the drive electrodes and the touch detection electrode:
a drive signal driver that supplies a drive signal to a first group of electrodes that are a part of the small electrode portions in a display period in which an image is displayed in the display area and
a touch detection unit that detects contact or proximity of an object on the basis of a signal appearing on a second group of electrodes that are a different part of the small electrode portions via mutual capacitance between the first group of electrodes and the second group of electrodes, in the display period,
wherein
each of the plurality of conductive thin wires includes a first thin wire segment and a second thin wire segment that are coupled in the first direction,
each of the wiring portions includes the first thin wire segment and the second thin wire segment of one of the plurality of conductive thin wires that are coupled in the first direction,
each first thin wire segment makes a first angle with respect to the first direction, and
each second thin wire segment makes a second angle with respect to the first direction.
2. The display apparatus with the touch detection function according to claim 1 , wherein
the conductive thin wires are arranged with a certain space between the conductive thin wires in the second direction.
3. The display apparatus with the touch detection function according to claim 2 , wherein
the small electrode portions are arranged in a matrix, and
the wiring portions are each disposed such that the wiring portion is apart in the second direction, with the certain space, from the conductive thin wires included in the small electrode portion located in the first direction side of the small electrode portion to which the wiring portion is coupled.
4. The display apparatus with the touch detection function according to claim 2 , wherein the conductive thin wires are disposed in parallel to each other and do not cross each other in the small electrode portions.
5. The display apparatus with the touch detection function according to claim 1 , wherein shapes of the first thin wire segment and the second thin wire segment are symmetric with respect to a symmetric axis in the first direction.
6. The display apparatus with the touch detection function according to claim 1 , wherein the dummy electrodes include:
a first dummy fragment that is disposed to make the first angle with respect to the first direction; and
a second dummy fragment that is disposed to make the second angle with respect to the second direction, wherein
the first dummy fragment and the second dummy fragment are disconnected from the wiring portions.
7. The display apparatus with the touch detection function according to claim 6 , wherein
the dummy electrode portion includes a plurality of first dummy fragments and a plurality of second dummy fragments, and
the first dummy fragments and the second dummy fragments that are adjacent for each other in the first direction are symmetric with respect to a symmetric axis in the second direction.
8. The display apparatus with the touch detection function according to claim 1 , wherein
first small electrode portions are the small electrode portions of the first group electrodes,
second small electrode portions are the small electrode portions of the second group electrodes,
the first small electrode portions and the second small electrode portions are alternately arranged in the first direction.
9. The display apparatus with the touch detection function according to claim 8 , wherein
the first small electrode portions and the second small electrode portions are alternately arranged in the second direction.
10. An electronic apparatus including a display apparatus with a touch detection function, the display apparatus comprising:
a substrate;
a display area that includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a plane parallel to a principal surface of the substrate;
a touch detection electrode that includes a plurality of small electrode portions arranged in a plane parallel to the principal surface of the substrate, the small electrode portions each including a plurality of conductive thin wires;
a plurality of wiring portions that electrically couple the small electrode portions to a terminal portion formed outside the display area;
a dummy electrode portion extending in a first direction and being disposed between the small electrode portions that are adjacent in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the dummy electrode portion including a plurality of dummy electrodes comprising thin wire fragments that are disposed separately from each other;
a plurality of drive electrodes that form capacitance between the drive electrodes and the touch detection electrode;
a drive signal driver that supplies a drive signal to a first group of electrodes that are a part of the small electrode portions in a display period in which an image is displayed in the display area and
a touch detection unit that detects contact or proximity of an object on the basis of a signal appearing on a second group of electrodes that are a different part of the small electrode portions via mutual capacitance between the first group electrodes and the second group of electrodes, in the display period,
wherein
each of the plurality of conductive thin wires includes a first thin wire segment and a second thin wire segment that are coupled in the first direction,
each of the wiring portions includes the first thin wire segment and the second thin wire segment of one of the plurality of conductive thin wires that are coupled in the first direction,
each first thin wire segment makes a first angle with respect to the first direction, and
each second thin wire segment makes a second angle with respect to the first direction.