# US 10,371,981 B2 · Touch display device comprising a plurality of common electrodes having first and second slits that respectively overlap first and second image signal lines > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,371,981 B2 - Document ID: US10371981B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/878,092 - Filed: 2018-01-23 - Published: 2018-05-31 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2016-02-24 - Assignees: Japan Display Inc. - Applicants: Japan Display Inc. - Inventors: Kenta Seki; Gen Koide; Hayato Kurasawa - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10371981B2 ## CPC - G02F 1/134318: {having a patterned common electrode} - G02F 1/13338: {Input devices, e.g. touch panels} - G02F 1/133707: {Structures for producing distorted electric fields, e.g. bumps, protrusions, recesses, slits in pixel electrodes} - G02F 1/134336: {Matrix} - G02F 1/136286: {Wiring, e.g. gate line, drain line} - G06F 3/0412: {Digitisers structurally integrated in a display} - G06F 3/0445: {using two or more layers of sensing electrodes, e.g. using two layers of electrodes separated by a dielectric layer} - G06F 3/0446: {using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes} - G02F 1/134381: {Hybrid switching mode, i.e. for applying an electric field with components parallel and orthogonal to the substrates} - G02F 1/136218: {Shield electrodes} - G02F 1/136295: {Materials; Compositions; Manufacture processes} - G02F 2201/121: common or background - G06F 2203/04103: Manufacturing, i.e. details related to manufacturing processes specially suited for touch sensitive devices - G02F: OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract According to one embodiment, a display device comprises image signal lines, scanning signal lines, pixels, a display area, pixel electrodes, and common electrodes. The common electrodes are configured to detect an object and to display an image in the display area. The common electrodes include first and second common electrodes which are arranged in a first direction. A first slit is provided between the first and second common electrodes. The first and second common electrodes are supplied a signal different from each other. A second slit is provided in the first common electrode. Each of the first slit and the second slit overlaps one of the image signal lines and extends in an extension direction in which the image signal line extends. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A liquid crystal display device comprising: a plurality of image signal lines; a plurality of scanning signal lines crossing the plurality of image signal lines; a plurality of metal lines overlapping the image signal lines; a plurality of pixels; a display area including the plurality of pixels; a plurality of pixel electrodes which are respectively provided in the plurality of pixels; and a plurality of common electrodes which are respectively opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein the plurality of common electrodes are configured to detect an object which is in contact with or in proximity to the display area and to display an image in the display area, the plurality of common electrodes include a first common electrode and a second common electrode which are arranged in a first direction in which one of the plurality of scanning signal lines extends, a first slit is provided between the first common electrode and the second common electrode, the first common electrode and the second common electrode are separated from each other by the first slit, a second slit is provided in the first common electrode, the first slit overlaps a first image signal line of the image signal lines and extends in an extension direction in which the image signal lines extend, the second slit overlaps a second image signal line of the image signal lines, and extends in the extension direction, the plurality of metal lines extend in the extension direction, and are electrically connected with the common electrodes, the plurality of metal lines include a first metal line and a second metal line, and the first metal line overlaps with the first slit, and the second metal line overlaps with the second slit. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein the first common electrode includes in the extension direction, a first area, a second area adjacent to the first area, and a third area adjacent to the second area, and the second slit is provided in the second area and is not provided in at least one of the first area and the third area. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The display device of claim 2, further comprising: a surrounding area located outside the display area; and a light-blocking layer which overlaps the surrounding area, wherein the first area and the third area are located in the surrounding area and overlap the light-blocking layer. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein the pixel includes n subpixels, a plurality of second slits, including the second slit, which are arranged in the first direction are provided in the first common electrode, and the number of the subpixels which are arranged in the first direction between the adjacent second slits is an integral multiple of n. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein a plurality of second slits, including the second slit, which are arranged in the first direction are provided in the first common electrode, the number of the pixels which are arranged between the first slit and the second slit and between the adjacent second slits is m, the number of the pixels which overlap the first common electrode in the first direction is q, and q is an integral multiple of m. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein in the first direction, the number of the pixels which overlap with the first common electrode differs from the number of the pixels which overlap with the second common electrode. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein the first metal line partly covers the first slit and directly contacts the first common electrode, and the second metal line partly covers the second slit and directly contacts the first common electrode. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein the first common electrode includes a first structural electrode and a second structural electrode, the second common electrode includes a third structural electrode, the first structural electrode and the second structural electrode are adjacent to each other via the second slit, the second structural electrode and the third structural electrode are adjacent to each other via the first slit, the first metal line is in contact with the third structural electrode and is spaced apart from the second structural electrode, and the second metal line is in contact with the first structural electrode and is spaced apart from the second structural electrode. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The display device of claim 8, wherein the plurality of metal lines further include a third metal line and a fourth metal line, the first common electrode further includes a fourth structural electrode and a fifth structural electrode, the second common electrode further includes a sixth structural electrode, the first structural electrode and the fourth structural electrode, the second structural electrode and the fifth structural electrode, and the third structural electrode and the sixth structural electrode are adjacent to each other, respectively, in the extension direction, the fourth structural electrode and the fifth structural electrode are adjacent to each other via the second slit, the fifth structural electrode and the sixth structural electrode are adjacent to each other via the first slit, the third metal line is in contact with the fifth structural electrode and is spaced apart from the sixth structural electrode, and the fourth metal line is in contact with the fifth structural electrode and is spaced apart from the fourth structural electrode. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The display device of claim 7, further comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate includes a first spacer provided between the first common electrode and the second common electrode, the second substrate includes a second spacer which is provided between the first common electrode and the second common electrode and is in contact with the first spacer, the first spacer and the second spacer overlap the image signal line and the scanning signal line in planar view, and the first metal line overlaps neither the first spacer nor the second spacer in planar view. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The display device of claim 10, wherein each of the first common electrode and the second common electrode includes a recess in planar view, and the first spacer and the second spacer are located in an area which is surrounded by the recess of the first common electrode and the recess of the second common electrode in planar view. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, further comprising a shield electrode which extends in the extension direction of the image signal line and to which a predetermined voltage is applied, wherein the shield electrode overlaps either the first slit or the second slit in planar view. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein the distance between the first slit and the second slit is less than or equal to 180 μm. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The display device of claim 13, wherein the distance between the first slit and the second slit is less than or equal to 150 μm. ### Claim 15 (depends on 13) The display device of claim 13, wherein the distance between the first slit and the second slit is greater than or equal to 80 μm. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The display device of claim 15, wherein the distance between the first slit and the second slit is greater than or equal to 100 μm. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein a plurality of second slits, including the second slit, arranged in the first direction are provided in the first common electrode, and the distance between the adjacent second slits is less than or equal to 180 μm. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The display device of claim 17, wherein the distance between the adjacent second slits is less than or equal to 150 μm. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, further comprising: detection electrodes which are arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein the common electrode detects the object using a self capacitance method.