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Granted Patent B2
US 10,585,452 · App. 15/408,282 · Granted Mar 10, 2020

Touch-screen panel, related electronic device, and related manufacturing method

Inventor: Jung-Mok Park (Hwaseong-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
G06F1/1626G06F3/044G06F2203/04102G06F2203/04103
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,585,452
App. No.
15/408,282
Granted
Mar 10, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A touch-screen panel may include a first touch-screen portion, a second touch-screen portion, and a third touch-screen portion. The first portion may include a first transparent electrode set. The second portion may include a second transparent electrode set, may abut the first portion at a first boundary, and may be oriented at a first angle with respect to the first portion. The third portion may include a third transparent electrode set, may abut the first portion at a second boundary, and may be oriented at a second angle with respect to the first portion. A length of the second portion in a direction parallel to the first boundary may be less than a sum of a length of the first portion in the direction parallel to the first boundary and a width of the third portion in a direction perpendicular to second boundary.

Claims (19)

1. An electronic device comprising:

a curved touch-screen panel having a shape bent with respect to a first axis and bent with respect to a second axis that intersects with the first axis, the curved touch-screen panel comprising an intersection at which the first axis intersects with the second axis, wherein the intersection is spaced from vertices of a removal region before the removal region is removed from the curved touch-screen panel; and

a body to which the curved touch-screen panel is attached.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the curved touch-screen panel is divided into a center remaining region and an outer remaining region by the first axis and the second axis, and a transparent electrode pattern of the center remaining region is identical to a transparent electrode pattern of the outer remaining region.

3. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the center remaining region includes N transparent electrode pattern lines, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the outer remaining region includes M transparent electrode pattern lines, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

4. The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein an electrode pitch of the center remaining region is the same as an electrode pitch of the outer remaining region.

5. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the curved touch-screen panel is divided into a center remaining region and an outer remaining region by the first axis and the second axis, and a transparent electrode pattern of the center remaining region is different from a transparent electrode pattern of the outer remaining region.

6. The electronic device of claim 5 , wherein the center remaining region includes N transparent electrode pattern lines, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the outer remaining region includes M transparent electrode pattern lines, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

7. The electronic device of claim 6 , wherein an electrode pitch of the center remaining region is the same as an electrode pitch of the outer remaining region.

8. The electronic device of claim 6 , wherein an electrode pitch of the center remaining region is different from an electrode pitch of the outer remaining region.

9. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the curved touch-screen panel includes a first transparent electrode layer having a structure in which first transparent electrode patterns are connected in a first direction and a second transparent electrode layer having a structure in which second transparent electrode patterns are connected in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction.

10. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the curved touch-screen panel includes a single transparent electrode layer having a structure in which first transparent electrode patterns are connected in a first direction and second transparent electrode patterns are connected using bridges in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction.

11. The electronic device of claim 1 , further comprising:

a curved display panel combined with the curved touch-screen panel, the curved display panel being manufactured to have a shape that is substantially identical to the shape of the curved touch-screen panel.

12. A method of manufacturing a curved touch-screen panel comprising:

preparing a flat touch-screen panel;

determining a first axis and a second axis that intersects with the first axis based on a target shape of a curved touch-screen panel;

removing a removal region, wherein vertices of the removal region is spaced from an intersection at which the first axis intersects with the second axis before the removing; and

bending the flat touch-screen panel with respect to the first axis and the second axis to form the target shape of the curved touch-screen panel.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 17, 2017
From: PARK, JUNG-MOK
To: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 041388/0575 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2016-0005821 · Jan 18, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
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