Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.

Tpk Touch Solutions Inc.

National Science Council

Tpk Touch Solutions (xiamen) Inc.

Chung Picture Tubes, Ltd.

Chun-Min Hu

Hua-Sou Tong

Yu-Chung Yu

Kuo-Chu Wang

Yuh-Wen Lee

Xianbin Xu

Kwan-Sin Ho

Qiong Yuan

Lichun Yang

Hua Yun

Wen-Yen Chiang

Congming Chen

Feng Zhao

Yea-Wan Chen

Ming-Yu Hsu

A touch panel, comprises a substrate, a sensing layer disposed on the substrate, wherein the sensing layer includes a plurality of electrode patterns disposed on at least one surface of the substrate, and arranged in interval; an optical matching glue disposed on the sensing layer and filled in the intervals, wherein the refractive index of the optical matching glue matches the refractive index of the sensing layer. The present invention further comprises an optical matching glue and the manufacturing method thereof. When using the touch panel of the present invention, the defects of appearance caused by the refractive index difference between the electrode pattern and the intervals can be reduced without any additional process.

Touch panel, optical matching glue applied in touch panel and manufacturing method thereof

The present invention is to provide a touch screen having a bacteria inhibition layer for prohibiting bacteria from growing thereon and a method for manufacturing the same comprising uniformly dispersing particles of nano metal material in a solution to be applied to a surface treatment so that the solution can have a concentration of 20 ppm to 500 ppm; evenly spray coating the solution on a screen of the touch screen; and subjecting the solution coated on the screen of the touch screen to a heat treatment until solvent in the solution is completely evaporated so that the particles of the nano metal material are densely adhered to the screen of the touch screen to form a bacteria inhibition layer thereon.

Touch screen with bacteria inhibition layer and manufacturing method thereof

A component for an information display device has a transparent substrate having a surface that has a first refractive index. The surface is selectively coated in a pattern comprising a transparent electrically conductive layer disposed at least at a first region of the surface and at a second region of the surface. The first region of the surface is separated from the second region by a third region that is devoid of the transparent conductive layer. The transparent conductive layer has a second refractive index that is higher than the first refractive index. The first, second and third regions are commonly overcoated with a transparent layer comprising non-conductive nanoparticles, the overcoating layer being disposed over the transparent conductive layer at the first and second regions and also disposed over the third region that is devoid of the transparent conductive layer. The refractive index of the layer comprising nanoparticles is higher than the first refractive index.

Component for an information display device

A method of hiding transparent electrodes on a transparent substrate coats a solution of non-conductive nanoparticles onto the transparent substrate and the transparent electrodes after forming a plurality of transparent electrodes on the transparent substrate, and both non-conductive nanoparticles and transparent electrodes have the same reflective index of light. After a high-temperature thermal processing is performed to the transparent substrate, an even mask is formed on the transparent substrate and the transparent electrodes, such that the non-conductive nanoparticles in the mask provide the same reflective index of light for the positions of the transparent substrate with and without the transparent electrodes, so as to effectively prevent a different reflective index of light at any position of the transparent substrate that will cause a poor image quality of the screen.

Method of hiding transparent electrodes on a transparent substrate

For use in a color cathode ray tube (CRT) having a display screen with a flat outer surface and a curved inner surface, a 2-layer antistatic and antireflective coating for the display screen's flat outer surface compensates for the variation in screen thickness to provide uniform light transmission through the screen and coating combination, a high degree of video image contrast, effective electrostatic shielding and discharge, and reduced light reflectivity. The coating includes a first inner electrically conductive layer disposed on the CRT display screen's flat outer surface containing carbon black particles for a high level of video image contrast and improved electrical conductivity for electrostatic shielding and discharge. The extent of light transmission through the inner conductive layer may be adjusted in accordance with the display screen's thickness by varying the amount of carbon black particles in the coating solution.

Antistatic/antireflective coating for video display screen with adjustable light transmission

A two-layer coating for the outer surface of the display screen of a color cathode ray tube (CRT) includes an inner carbon black-based layer and an outer silica-based layer. The inner layer is antistatic, while the outer layer is antireflective. To compensate for the increased absorption of blue light by the carbon black particles, which results in a color video image having a yellowish tint, a blue additive, such as a pigment or dye, is added to the coating to adjust its light absorbance characteristics and provide uniform light absorbance over the entire visible spectrum of 400-700 nm for improved color video image presentation.

Carbon black coating for CRT display screen with uniform light absorption

A two-layer coating for the outer surface of a glass display screen of a video display device such as a cathode ray tube (CRT) includes an inner antistatic layer and an outer antireflective layer. The outer antireflective layer contains silica and has a refractive index in the range of 1.4-1.5. The inner layer contains carbon black powder particles which provide high electrical conductivity to dissipate electrostatic charge on the glass display screen. The inner layer further includes a surface activation agent, such as glycol, for dispersing the carbon black particles in the antistatic solution. To increase the refractive index of the inner layer to a value greater than its typical value, which is in the range of 1.5-2.0, for the purpose of reducing light reflection from the glass display screen while maintaining high conductivity, ZrO , ZnO, ZnS or TiO , or a combination thereof, is added to the inner antistatic layer to provide a stable solution with optically and electrically desirable characteristics.

Antistatic/antireflective coating for video display screen with improved refractivity

A high molecular weight, i.e., molecular weight of 90,000-750,000, conductive polymer soluble in both water and alcohol is mixed with a solution of water, alcohol, tetraethoxysilane (TES), and nitric acid (HNO.sub.3) to provide an antistatic coating for a glass display panel of a cathode ray tube (CRT) for grounding static charge on the panel. Conductive polymers such as of polyaniline mixed with either polystyrene sulfonic acid or polyacrylic acid in a molecular ratio of 1:1 or 3,4 polyethylenedioxythiophene added to polystyrenesulphonate in a molecular ratio of 1:1 form a conductive complex which when mixed with a solution of water, alcohol, TES and HNO.sub.3 provides a coating solution with a resistivity in the range of 10.sup.7-10.sup.9 ohm/cm.sup.2 on the outer surface of the CRT display panel.

Polymeric antistatic coating for cathode ray tubes

The inner surface of a video display panel such as cathode ray tube (CRT) glass faceplate is initially coated with a mixture of one of the primary color phosphors, an organic binder such as polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) diluted with water, and a photoresist agent. The organic binder overcomes the poor adhesion to the glass faceplate of the photoresist which typically includes polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) and reduces the oxygen which decreases phosphor exposure time. To overcome PVA and PVP incompatibilities which give rise to nonuniform film thickness, a vinyl pyrrolidone-vinyl alcohol (VP-VA) copolymer is added to the phosphor, organic binder and photoresist mixture in the range of 0.1-30 wt %. The copolymer with both the VP and VA functioning groups serves as a coupling agent between the PVA and PVP and eliminates incompatibilities between these components. The VP-VA copolymer preferably has a VP/VA mole ratio in the range of 20/80 to 80/20. The photoresist further includes a photosensitive tetraalkylammonium salt and water. By substituting the sodium disulfonate group in the prior an disodium salt with a di-tetraalkylammonium group, the water solubility of the salt is substantially increased permitting increased concentrations of the tetraalkylammonium salt to be used in the photoresist for improved video image contrast. The tetraalkylammonium salt also serves as a linking, or bonding, agent between VP-VA and PVP to prevent the VP-VA from being wiped away during CRT manufacture and for improved application of the photoresist to the glass faceplate.

Photoresist for cathode ray tubes that includes vinyl

Apparatus for applying an antistatic and/or antireflective coating to the outer surface of a curved glass display screen of a cathode ray tube (CRT) includes a spin coating arrangement for rotating the CRT about its longitudinal axis after the coating solution is deposited on a center portion of the display screen. Centrifugal force and gravity urge the coating solution outwardly toward the edges of the display screen in forming a thin layer of uniform thickness on the display screen. A curved shield shaped in accordance with the display screen's curvature is disposed above the display screen in closely spaced relation thereto to form a chamber of stable air above the display screen and eliminate air turbulence and its tendency to spread the coating nonuniformly. The curved shield may include a center aperture for permitting the coating solution to be deposited upon the display screen prior to rotation and is adapted for easy attachment to and removal from the CRT's peripheral implosion protection band.

Apparatus for improved coating of a CRT display screen

A multilayer antireflective coating is applied to the outer surface of a video display panel such as a cathode ray tube (CRT) or a flat panel display in the form of successive thin layers each having a different light refractive index, where the light refractive index of each layer decreases in the direction away from the surface of the display panel and toward the outer layer of the coating. Each layer is formed from the same starting gel materials, with the degree of crosslinking of each gel layer varied to provide the desired light refractive index for reducing reflections from the display panel's outer surface over a wide spectrum. The extent of crosslinking and thus the individual layer's light refractive index is varied by controlling the aging of the gel, with longer aging providing increased crosslinking and larger molecular weight for a lower light refractive index. For example, silica gels aged over different time periods provide gels having a light refractive index ranging from 1.45 (shorter aging) to 1.18 (longer aging).

Multilayer antireflective coating for video display panel

The outer surface of the glass display panel of a cathode ray tube (CRT) is first coated with an antistatic conductive metal salt solution. A water or organic solvent soluble antireflective coating is then applied by conventional means such as spinning, spraying or dipping to the glass display panel over the first coating. The antireflective coating is comprised of either an organic or an inorganic salt, or a polymer. The coated display panel is then baked, followed by thorough washing with either water in the case of an organic or inorganic salt or water soluble polymer antireflective coating, or toluene in the case of a non-water soluble polymer antireflective coating. Washing the display panel partially dissolves the salt or polymer in the antireflective coating more on the outer surface of the coating than on the inner portion of the coat adjacent the glass facelate. Dissolution of a portion of the salt or polymer in the coating produces pores in the coating and variations in coating thickness, thus changing the light refractive index of the coating. A continuous decreasing dissolution rate determined by the extent of washing of the coated display panel provides the coating with a continuous decreasing light refractive index and broadband antireflection (400-700 nm) with a minimum reflectance of 1.0% in the range of 560-650 nm. Knowing the light refractive index of the glass substrate and that of air (typically 1.0), the refractive index of the salt or polymer coating may be established by the extent of dissolution of the coating during washing.

Broadband antireflective and antistatic coating for CRT

The inner surface of a video display panel such as cathode ray tube (CRT) glass faceplate is initially coated with a mixture of one of the primary color phosphors, an organic binder such as polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) diluted with water, and a photoresist agent. The organic binder overcomes the poor adhesion to the glass faceplate of the photoresist which typically includes polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) and reduces the oxygen which decreases phosphor exposure time. To overcome PVA and PVP incompatibilities which give rise to nonuniform film thickness, a vinyl pyrrolidone-vinyl alcohol (VP-VA) copolymer is added to the phosphor, organic binder and photoresist mixture in the range of 0.1-30 wt %. The copolymer with both the VP and VA functioning groups serves as a coupling agent between the PVA and PVP and eliminates incompatibilities between these components. The VP-VA copolymer preferably has a VP/VA mole ratio in the range of 20/80 to 80/20.

Photoresist for cathode ray tubes

A multilayer antireflective coating is applied to the outer surface of a video display panel such as a cathode ray tube (CRT) or a flat panel display in the form of successive thin layers each having a different light refractive index, where the light refractive index of each layer decreases in the direction away from the surface of the display panel and toward the outer layer of the coating. Each layer is formed from the same starting gel materials, with the degree of crosslinking of each gel layer varied to provide the desired light refractive index for reducing reflections from the display panel's outer surface over a wide spectrum. The extent of crosslinking and thus the individual layer's light refractive index is varied by controlling the aging of the gel, with longer aging providing increased crosslinking and larger molecular weight for a lower light refractive index. For example, silica gels aged over different time periods provide gels having a light refractive index ranging from 1.45 (shorter aging) to 1.18 (longer aging). An antistatic layer may be applied directly to the outer surface of the display panel before the antireflective coating is applied by adding an electrically conductive fine powder such as of tin oxide, antimony-doped tin oxide, etc. The high light refractive index of these conductive coatings, i.e., n&gt;1.8, further improves the antireflective characteristics of the multilayer coating.

For use in a self-emitting color display device such as a cathode ray tube (CRT) having a display screen with a phosphor coating on its inner surface, a surface coating disposed on the display screen's outer surface affords improved color purity, or contrast, by reducing overlap in the color spectrum between two adjacent primary colors, i.e., between red and green and/or between green and blue. An organic dye is added to either an inner antistatic layer or an outer antireflective layer of an antireflective/antistatic outer coating on the display screen, where both of the aforementioned layers contain silane. The dye functions as a color filter absorbing only light within the frequency range between adjacent primary colors, such as between the red and green color phosphors, i.e., in the range of 460-500 nm, and/or between the green and blue color phosphors, i.e., in the range of 560-600 nm. A silane coupling agent is also added to serve as a binding agent bridging the organic dye and silane together. In this manner, the organic dye is bonded to the silane in either the antistatic layer or the antireflective layer to prevent separation and escape of the organic dye filter from either of these layers of the outer coating on the display screen.

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