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US 12,256,607 · App. 18/488,220 · Granted Mar 18, 2025

Touch sensor and display apparatus

Inventors: Wenxiao Niu (Beijing, CN); Xiaolong Zhu (Beijing, CN); Fan Li (Beijing, CN); Guiyu Zhang (Beijing, CN)
Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.; BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
H10K59/122G06F3/0412G06F3/04164G06F3/0446H10K59/131H10K59/40G06F2203/04111G06F2203/04112
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Patent No.
US 12,256,607
App. No.
18/488,220
Filed
Oct 17, 2023
Granted
Mar 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2627
USPC
345/173
Abstract

A touch sensor and display apparatus are provided. The touch sensor includes a first opening region, first touch electrodes extending along a first direction and second touch electrodes extending along a second direction; the touch sensor has a first region, a second region and a third region which are sequentially laid out in the second direction, the first opening region is in the second region; an area of a first touch sub-electrode in the first region is less than that of a first touch sub-electrode in the third region, or an area of a second touch sub-electrode in the first region is less than that of a second touch sub-electrode in the third region; a distance between two adjacent second touch sub-electrodes in the first region in the second direction is less than a distance between two adjacent second touch sub-electrodes in the third region in the second direction.

Claims (83)

1. A touch sensor, comprising: a first opening region, a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of second touch electrodes, wherein

the plurality of first touch electrodes respectively extend along a first direction, and at least one of the plurality of first touch electrodes comprises a plurality of first touch sub-electrodes arranged side by side in the first direction and electrically connected with each other;

the plurality of second touch electrodes respectively extend along a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and at least one of the plurality of second touch electrodes comprises a plurality of second touch sub-electrodes arranged side by side in the second direction and electrically connected with each other;

the plurality of first touch electrodes are arranged side by side along the second direction, and the plurality of second touch electrodes are arranged side by side along the first direction; and

an entirety constituted by the plurality of first touch sub-electrodes and the plurality of second touch sub-electrodes surrounds at least a part of the first opening region;

the touch sensor has a first region, a second region and a third region which are sequentially laid out in the second direction, two edges of the first region that are arranged in the second direction respectively coincide with an upper boundary of the touch sensor and an upper boundary of the second region, two edges of the third region that are arranged in the second direction respectively coincide with a lower boundary of the second region and a lower boundary of the touch sensor, and a size of an entirety of the third region in the second direction is greater than that of an entirety of the first region;

the first opening region is positioned in the second region;

an area of a first touch sub-electrode in the first region is less than that of a first touch sub-electrode in the third region, or an area of a second touch sub-electrode in the first region is less than that of a second touch sub-electrode in the third region; and

a distance between two adjacent second touch sub-electrodes in the first region in the second direction is less than a distance between two adjacent second touch sub-electrodes in the third region in the second direction

wherein an overall width of the touch sensor in the second direction is greater than the overall width of the touch sensor in the first direction.

2. The touch sensor according to claim 1 , further comprising: a first crack blocking ring, wherein

the touch sensor further comprises a transitional region and a touch functional region, the opening region, and the transitional region and the touch functional region are sequentially laid out from a center of the opening region;

the center of the opening region and a center of the touch sensor do not coincide;

the touch functional region surrounds the transitional region;

the plurality of first touch electrodes and the plurality of second touch electrodes are positioned in the touch functional region; and

the first crack blocking ring is positioned in the transitional region and at least partially surrounds the opening region.

3. The touch sensor according to claim 2 , wherein the first crack blocking ring is a metal ring.

4. A touch sensor, comprising: a first opening region, a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of second touch electrodes, wherein

the plurality of first touch electrodes respectively extend along a first direction, and at least one of the plurality of first touch electrodes comprises a plurality of first touch sub-electrodes arranged side by side in the first direction and electrically connected with each other;

the plurality of second touch electrodes respectively extend along a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and at least one of the plurality of second touch electrodes comprises a plurality of second touch sub-electrodes arranged side by side in the second direction and electrically connected with each other;

the plurality of first touch electrodes are arranged side by side along the second direction, and the plurality of second touch electrodes are arranged side by side along the first direction; and

an entirety constituted by the plurality of first touch sub-electrodes and the plurality of second touch sub-electrodes surrounds at least a part of the first opening region;

the touch sensor is divided into a first region, a second region and a third region which are sequentially laid out in the second direction,

the first opening region is positioned in the second region;

an area of a first touch sub-electrode in the first region is less than that of a first touch sub-electrode in the third region, or an area of a second touch sub-electrode in the first region is less than that of a second touch sub-electrode in the third region; and

a distance between two adjacent second touch sub-electrodes in the first region in the second direction is less than a distance between two adjacent second touch sub-electrodes in the third region in the second direction;

the touch sensor further comprises: a first crack blocking ring, wherein

the touch sensor further comprises a transitional region and a touch functional region, the opening region, and the transitional region and the touch functional region are sequentially laid out from a center of the opening region;

the center of the opening region and a center of the touch sensor do not coincide;

the touch functional region surrounds the transitional region;

the plurality of first touch electrodes and the plurality of second touch electrodes are positioned in the touch functional region; and

the first crack blocking ring is positioned in the transitional region and at least partially surrounds the opening region;

the first crack blocking ring has at least one first fracture, and at least one of the at least one first fracture has a tip.

5. The touch sensor according to claim 4 , wherein at least one of the at least one first fracture is of a lightning shape.

6. The touch sensor according to claim 4 , wherein the first crack blocking ring has at least two first fractures; and

the at least two first fractures separate the first crack blocking ring into at least two blocking ring sub-portions in a circumferential direction of the first crack blocking ring.

7. The touch sensor according to claim 6 , wherein an end portion of each of the at least two blocking ring sub-portions in the circumferential direction of the first crack blocking ring has a step structure.

8. The touch sensor according to claim 7 , wherein a size of a step surface of the step structure in the circumferential direction of the first crack blocking ring is 0.004 mm-0.015 mm.

9. The touch sensor according to claim 2 , wherein an inner edge of the first crack blocking ring integrally surrounds an edge of the opening region or coincides with the edge of the opening region.

10. The touch sensor according to claim 2 , wherein an edge of the opening region is of a circle shape, and an overall shape of the first crack blocking ring is of a circular ring shape; or,

the edge of the opening region is of a racetrack shape, and the first crack blocking ring at least part of a ring in a racetrack-shaped;

the racetrack shape comprises a first edge and a second edge that are both straight lines, extending along the first direction and are opposite to each other in the second direction, and comprises a third edge and a fourth edge that are both curved lines, opposite to each other in the first direction and protrude away from each other in the first direction, two ends of the third edge are respectively connected with a first end of the first edge and a first end of the second edge, and two ends of the fourth edge line are respectively connected with a second end of the first edge and a second end of the second edge.

11. A touch sensor, comprising: a first opening region, a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of second touch electrodes, wherein

the plurality of first touch electrodes respectively extend along a first direction, and at least one of the plurality of first touch electrodes comprises a plurality of first touch sub-electrodes arranged side by side in the first direction and electrically connected with each other;

the plurality of second touch electrodes respectively extend along a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and at least one of the plurality of second touch electrodes comprises a plurality of second touch sub-electrodes arranged side by side in the second direction and electrically connected with each other;

the plurality of first touch electrodes are arranged side by side along the second direction, and the plurality of second touch electrodes are arranged side by side along the first direction; and

an entirety constituted by the plurality of first touch sub-electrodes and the plurality of second touch sub-electrodes surrounds at least a part of the first opening region;

the touch sensor has a first region, a second region and a third region which are sequentially laid out in the second direction, the first opening region is positioned in the second region;

an area of a first touch sub-electrode in the first region is less than that of a first touch sub-electrode in the third region, or an area of a second touch sub-electrode in the first region is less than that of a second touch sub-electrode in the third region; and

a distance between two adjacent second touch sub-electrodes in the first region in the second direction is less than a distance between two adjacent second touch sub-electrodes in the third region in the second direction;

the touch sensor further comprises: a first crack blocking ring, wherein

the touch sensor further comprises a transitional region and a touch functional region, the opening region, and the transitional region and the touch functional region are sequentially laid out from a center of the opening region;

the center of the opening region and a center of the touch sensor do not coincide;

the touch functional region surrounds the transitional region;

the plurality of first touch electrodes and the plurality of second touch electrodes are positioned in the touch functional region; and

the first crack blocking ring is positioned in the transitional region and at least partially surrounds the opening region;

the touch sensor further comprises a second crack blocking ring,

wherein the second crack blocking ring is positioned in the transitional region, and at least partially surrounds the first crack blocking ring; and

the first crack blocking ring and the second crack blocking ring are spaced.

12. The touch sensor according to claim 11 , wherein a ring width of the second crack blocking ring is less than the ring width of the first crack blocking ring.

13. The touch sensor according to claim 11 , wherein the second crack blocking ring has at least one second fracture, and the at least one first fracture and the at least one second fracture are staggered mutually.

14. The touch sensor according to claim 13 , wherein at least one of the at least one second fracture has a tip.

15. The touch sensor according to claim 2 , further comprising:

a transition touch sub-electrode, arranged in the touch functional region and at least partially surrounding the opening region, wherein the transition touch sub-electrode partially or fully surrounds the opening region, and the transition touch sub-electrode and the first crack blocking ring are arranged side by side in the first direction; and

at least one first jumper conductor wire, wherein at least one of the plurality of first touch electrodes is separated by the opening region into a first electrode portion and a second electrode portion;

each of the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion comprises at least one of the first touch sub-electrodes;

the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion are positioned on both sides of the opening region in the first direction;

the at least one first jumper conductor wire is arranged in the touch functional region and at least partially surrounds the opening region; and

the first electrode portion and the transition touch sub-electrode are electrically connected with each other at least via a corresponding first jumper conductor wire.

16. The touch sensor according to claim 15 , further comprising at least one second jumper conductor wire,

wherein at least one of the plurality of second touch electrodes is separated by the opening region into a third electrode portion and a fourth electrode portion;

each of the third electrode portion and the fourth electrode portion comprises at least one of the second touch sub-electrodes;

the third electrode portion and the fourth electrode portion are positioned on both sides of the opening region in the second direction;

the at least one second jumper conductor wire is arranged in the touch functional region and at least partially surrounds the opening region; and

the third electrode portion and the fourth electrode portion are electrically connected with each other at least via a corresponding second jumper conductor wire;

in a radial direction of the opening region, the at least one first jumper conductor wire is positioned between the second jumper conductor wire and the first crack blocking ring.

17. The touch sensor according to claim 15 , wherein the ring width of the first crack blocking ring is greater than twice a line width of the first jumper conductor wire.

18. The touch sensor according to claim 15 , wherein the first touch sub-electrode, the second touch sub-electrode and the transition touch sub-electrode are positioned on a first electrode layer;

the first crack blocking ring and the at least one first jumper conductor wire are positioned on a second electrode layer; and

the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer are positioned in different layers in a direction perpendicular to the touch sensor and are in direct contact with each other;

the first electrode layer is made of a transparent conducting material, and the second electrode layer is made of a metal material.

19. A display apparatus, comprising the touch sensor according to claim 1 .

20. The touch sensor according to claim 1 , wherein a size of the third region in the second direction is greater than that of the first region.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 17, 2023
From: NIU, WENXIAO; ZHU, XIAOLONG; LI, FAN; ZHANG, GUIYU
To: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.; BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 065251/0975 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 17428014
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