IP Library Granted Patent US 10,437,379
Granted Patent B2
US 10,437,379 · App. 15/684,559 · Granted Oct 8, 2019

Input device, display device, and electronic device

Inventors: Yasuyuki Teranishi (Tokyo, JP); Takafumi Suzuki (Tokyo, JP); Kohei Azumi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
G06F3/0416G06F3/044G06F3/0412
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Patent No.
US 10,437,379
App. No.
15/684,559
Granted
Oct 8, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A noise immunity of a detected capacitance is prevented or inhibited from lowering on a driving electrode different in width from the other driving electrodes, provided in an input device. A touch panel serving as an input device has a plurality of driving electrodes extending in an X-axis direction and arranged in a Y-axis direction intersecting with the X-axis direction, and a driving electrode arranged outside one side of an arrangement of the driving electrodes and extending in the X-axis direction. Further, the touch panel TP 1 has a plurality of detecting electrodes extending in the Y-axis direction and arranged in the X-axis direction. The width of the driving electrode is smaller than the widths of the driving electrodes and the detecting electrode includes an expanding portion for expanding the area of the detecting electrode on the side opposite to the plurality of driving electrodes via the driving electrode.

Claims (36)

1. An input device comprising:

a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first direction, respectively, and arranged in a second direction intersecting with the first direction in a plan view; and

a second electrode extending in the first direction, and arranged along an outermost portion of the plurality of first electrodes in a plan view,

wherein in a display area, the plurality of first electrodes and the second electrode are separated from each other,

an input position is detected based upon a driving voltage applied to the first electrodes and the second electrode,

the second electrode has a first width which is substantially constant in the first direction, and each of the plurality of first electrodes has a second width which is substantially constant in the first direction, and

the first width of the second electrode is different from the second width of each of the plurality of first electrodes.

2. The input device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first width of the second electrode is smaller than the second width of the first electrode.

3. The input device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a plurality of third electrodes each extending in the second direction and arranged in the first direction in a plan view.

4. The input device according to claim 3 ,

wherein the third electrode includes a first expanding portion for expanding an area of the third electrode on an opposite side of the plurality of first electrodes interposing the second electrode in a plan view.

5. The input device according to claim 3 ,

wherein an input position is detected based upon a first electrostatic capacitance between the third electrode and the first electrode and a second electrostatic capacitance between the third electrode and the second electrode.

6. The input device according to claim 3 , further comprising a fourth electrode arranged outside the other side of the arrangement of the plurality of first electrodes and extending in the first direction in a plan view,

wherein the input position is detected based upon the first electrostatic capacitance, the second electrostatic capacitance, and a third electrostatic capacitance between the third electrode and the fourth electrode,

the first width of the second electrode is smaller than the second width of the first electrode,

a third width of the fourth electrode in the second direction is smaller than the second width, and

the third electrode includes a second expanding portion for expanding an area of the third electrode, on a side opposite to the plurality of first electrodes interposing the fourth electrode in a plan view.

7. A display device provided with the input device according to claim 3 , the display device comprising:

a first substrate;

a second substrate arranged so as to face the first substrate;

a plurality of fifth electrodes arrange between the first substrate and the second substrate;

a plurality of sixth electrodes arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; and

a display image forming section arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate and forming a display image by application of voltages between the plurality of fifth electrodes and the plurality of sixth electrodes,

wherein the plurality of fifth electrodes include the plurality of first electrodes and the second electrode, and

the third electrode is formed on a side opposite to the fifth electrode via the second substance.

8. The display device according to claim 7 ,

wherein the display image forming section is composed of a liquid crystal layer.

9. The display device according to claim 7 , further comprising a display area on which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a plan view,

wherein each of the plurality of sixth electrodes is arranged so as to correspond to each of the plurality of pixels, and

the plurality of first electrodes and the second electrode are provided so as to extend inside the display area and outside the display area in a section perpendicular to the first direction.

10. The display device according to claim 9 ,

wherein the third electrode includes a first expanding portion for expanding an area of the third electrode, on an opposite side of the plurality of first electrodes interposing the second electrode in a plan view, and

the first expanding portion is arranged outside the display area.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 22, 2025
From: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
To: MAGNOLIA WHITE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 072130/0313 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 17, 2017
From: TERANISHI, YASUYUKI; SUZUKI, TAKAFUMI; AZUMI, KOHEI
To: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
Reel/Frame 043880/0355 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-21912 · Feb 7, 2013 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 15059916 · Mar 3, 2016
Division 14155036 · Jan 14, 2014
Related Publication 20170351377A1 · Dec 7, 2017