Summary of the invention
The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of substrate and manufacture method thereof, liquid crystal panel and manufacture method thereof, realize simplifying the manufacturing process of liquid crystal panel, and significantly improve the precision and the yield of liquid crystal panel with touch controllable function.
For achieving the above object, the invention provides a kind of substrate, described substrate comprises glass and at the array pattern of described setting on glass, the glass internal chiasma of described substrate is provided with many and is used to make light to carry out the guide lighting channel that total reflection is propagated therein, and described guide lighting channel that the position is set is corresponding with described array pattern, being provided with in the scope of described array pattern.
Wherein, aforesaid substrate can be array base palte, and described array pattern is grid line and a data line arranged in a crossed manner, described guide lighting channel that the position is set is corresponding with described grid line and data line, and being provided with in the scope at described grid line and data line.Perhaps, aforesaid substrate also can be color membrane substrates, and described array pattern is black matrix, described guide lighting channel that the position is set is corresponding with described black matrix, and being provided with in the scope at described black matrix.
The invention provides the liquid crystal panel that comprises aforesaid substrate, wherein, many described guide lighting channels in the described substrate are connected with touch detection unit respectively, and described touch detection unit is used for the phase change sensing touch position of the light that returns according to described light when touch causes described guide lighting channel generation deformation.
The invention provides a kind of manufacture method of substrate, comprising:
Step 1, be provided with many in the glass internal chiasma that is used to make substrate and be used to make light to carry out the guide lighting channel that total reflection is propagated therein, and described guide lighting channel be provided with the position with will be corresponding at the array pattern of described setting on glass, being provided with in the scope of described array pattern;
Step 2, utilization are provided with the glass of described guide lighting channel and make substrate, make in the described substrate of finishing, at the described described array pattern that is provided with on glass.
The present invention also provides a kind of manufacture method of liquid crystal panel, comprising:
Step 1, make first substrate and second substrate, described first substrate or second substrate adopt the method in the manufacture method of aforesaid substrate to make;
Step 2, described first substrate and second substrate are carried out the box setting;
Step 3, described first substrate behind the box and the periphery of second substrate are being provided with driving circuit, and light emission unit and touch detection unit are connected with described guide lighting channel, each bar guide lighting channel connects a touch detection unit; Described light emission unit is used to provide incident ray, and described touch detection unit is used for the phase change sensing touch position of the light that returns according to described light when touch causes described guide lighting channel generation deformation.
The present invention is by being arranged on guide lighting channel the glass substrate inside in the liquid crystal panel, and the position that utilizes light total reflection propagation principle sensing touch-control to move, solved the liquid crystal panel complex manufacturing technology that has touch controllable function at present, and bring out relevant bad problem easily, realized simplification technology, and significantly improved precision, yield and the output capacity of liquid crystal panel with touch controllable function.
Embodiment
Technical scheme of the present invention mainly is to make light carry out many guide lighting channels that total reflection is propagated therein inner horizontal vertical arranged in a crossed manner being useful on of the glass of the glass inside of array base palte or color membrane substrates, and guide lighting channel that position and grid line and data line or black matrix are set is corresponding, and being provided with in the scope at grid line and data line or black matrix; Many guide lighting channel is connected with touch detection unit respectively, and this touch detection unit is used to receive the echo that light returns when touch causes guide lighting channel generation deformation, and realizes detection for touch location according to the phase change of echo.
Below by drawings and Examples, technical scheme of the present invention is described in further detail.
The embodiment of the invention provides a kind of substrate, this substrate comprises glass and at the array pattern of described setting on glass, the glass internal chiasma of described substrate is provided with many and is used to make light to carry out the guide lighting channel that total reflection is propagated therein, and described guide lighting channel that the position is set is corresponding with described array pattern, being provided with in the scope of described array pattern.
Wherein, aforesaid substrate can be array base palte, and array pattern is grid line and a data line arranged in a crossed manner, at this moment, guide lighting channel that the position is set is corresponding with grid line and data line, and being provided with in the scope at grid line and data line.
Perhaps, aforesaid substrate also can be color membrane substrates, and array pattern is black matrix, at this moment, guide lighting channel that the position is set is corresponding with described black matrix, and being provided with in the scope at described black matrix.
On this basis, further, aforesaid substrate, for example, the guide lighting channel in array base palte or the color membrane substrates can be made of optical material or optical fiber.In concrete enforcement, optical material can adopt lithium niobate; And guide lighting channel can be arranged on the inboard or the outside of described array base palte or color membrane substrates.
On the above-mentioned basis that substrate is provided, the embodiment of the invention also provides a kind of liquid crystal panel that comprises aforesaid substrate.Fig. 1 is the structural representation of liquid crystal panel embodiment of the present invention, and present embodiment is that example describes guide lighting channel is arranged on the array base palte.As shown in Figure 1, liquid crystal panel comprises array base palte 11, color membrane substrates 12, grid line driving circuit 13 and data line drive circuit 14, and, first flexible PCB 15 that grid line driving circuit 13 and data line drive circuit 14 and array base palte 11 are coupled together.
Wherein, horizontal vertical many guide lighting channels 16 that have arranged in a crossed manner on the array base palte 11, this guide lighting channel 16 are arranged on the glass inside of array base palte 11, and are laid in the whole viewing area of array base palte 11.About this guide lighting channel 16 the position is set and shape is described as follows: because the light that provides of backlight transfers out the liquid crystal panel except a part sees through transparency electrode, other parts are all stopped by structures such as grid line, data line, black matrixes; Therefore, the graphic structure of any other that forms in the width range of grid line and data line can not exert an influence to the display quality and the product performance of liquid crystal panel; So guide lighting channel 16 is arranged in the scope that is provided with of grid line on the array base palte 11 and data line, and above-mentioned many guide lighting channels 16 also are arranged in a crossed manner, and it is provided with shape and grid line and data line, and that shape is set is identical.Guide lighting channel 16 can or be embedded in the optical fiber of described glass inside for the optical material of the glass inside that is deposited on array base palte 11, if employing optical material, then the refractive index of this optical material need be greater than the refractive index of glass, and this optical material has translucidus preferably, utilize the propagation of light, also to have heat diffusivity preferably, be beneficial to when heating, deposit to glass inside; For example, this material can adopt lithium niobate.When specifically being provided with, above-mentioned guide lighting channel 16 can be arranged on the inboard or the outside of array base palte 11, and promptly one side all can arbitrarily.
Guide lighting channel 16 also needs to connect and is used to the light emission unit of incident ray is provided is light source, and the touch detection unit that is used for the phase change sensing touch position of the echo that when touch causes described guide lighting channel generation deformation, returns according to light, just can realize touch controllable function.Wherein, light emission unit and touch detection unit can be arranged on the peripheral drive circuit of liquid crystal panel, for example, on grid line driving circuit 13 or the data line drive circuit 14, and are connected with guide lighting channel on the array base palte 11 by flexible PCB; Certainly, also can be provided with in other positions separately.The liquid crystal panel of present embodiment all is integrated in light emission unit and touch detection unit on the grid line driving circuit 13, shown in 17 among Fig. 1, comprised light emission unit and touch detection unit in 17, wherein, the light emission unit can be semiconductor laser etc.; And be connected with guide lighting channel on the array base palte 11 by second flexible PCB 18, light just can be by being coupled and projection be transferred in the guide lighting channel 16.Below to the light emission unit, concrete annexation between touch detection unit and the guide lighting channel describes: as shown in Figure 2, Fig. 2 is the a-quadrant structural representation among Fig. 1, the a-quadrant is included in light emission unit and touch detection unit integrated on the grid line driving circuit 13, wherein, light emission unit 19 is connected with first receiving end of a plurality of touch detection units 21 respectively by many first light-pathes 20, and be connected with the input end 23 of many guide lighting channels respectively by many second light-pathes 22, this second light-path 22 be provided be used to make light that light emission unit 19 sends by and inject the semi-transparent semi-reflecting lens 24 of input end 23; Second receiving end of touch detection unit 21 is connected with input end 23 by the 3rd light-path 25 respectively, is used for receiving the light that sends the light emission unit 19 of semi-transparent semi-reflecting lens 24 reflections and runs into when guide lighting channel 16 is propagated and touch the guide lighting channel deformation that causes and the light that returns.In concrete the enforcement, above-mentioned light-path can adopt light propagation mediums such as optical fiber; In addition, the 3rd light-path 25 that light emission unit 19 is connected with the input end 23 of guide lighting channel can be the transmission channel on second flexible PCB 18, by second flexible PCB 18 guide lighting channel 16 on light emission unit and touch detection unit 17 and the array base palte 11 is coupled together.Because in the present embodiment, only concentrate and adopted a light emission unit 19, the other end of second flexible PCB 18, also corresponding concentrating with many guide lighting channels is connected, as shown in Figure 3, Fig. 3 is the B regional structure synoptic diagram among Fig. 1, and the structure in this B zone is the syndeton of flexible PCB and many guide lighting channels.Because will concentrating with many guide lighting channels, second flexible PCB 18 is connected, therefore, many guide lighting channels on the array base palte 11 can form an aggregation infrastructure in the upper left corner of array base palte 11, as shown in Figure 3, after grid line direction guide lighting channel 26 in many guide lighting channels and data line direction guide lighting channel 27 concentrate in together, be connected with second flexible PCB 18 by its input end 23, the light that the light emission unit is sent just can enter into the input end 23 of many guide lighting channels by second flexible PCB 18 again.In concrete the enforcement, aforesaid way can carry out accommodation, and for example, it is concentrated that many guide lighting channels also can not converge, and connects a plurality of light emission unit and a plurality of flexible PCB respectively.The periphery of array base palte 11 also is provided with optical waveguide zone 28, this optical waveguide zone 28 is deposited on array base palte 11 peripheries in the time of can depositing optical waveguide material on array base palte 11, many guide lighting channel converges in this optical waveguide zone 28, second flexible PCB 18 is connected with whole guide lighting channels in the array base palte 11 in this optical waveguide zone 28, can save the light emission unit like this, simplify the structure setting of liquid crystal panel.Guide lighting channels in the array base palte 11 can carry out centralized setting as shown in Figure 3 at the incident end of light, and at the exit end of light, guide lighting channel can no longer be concentrated, and is similar to the terminal distribution form of grid line or data line.
The principle of work of the liquid crystal panel sensing touch point position coordinates of present embodiment is as follows: light is launched in light emission unit 19 integrated on the grid line driving circuit 13, the part of this emergent ray enters into touch detection unit 21 by first light-path 20, and the detecting unit 21 that is touched receives as standard light; Another part incides in the input end 23 of the guide lighting channel in the array base palte 11 by second light-path 22 on second flexible PCB 18, enters into guide lighting channel 16.The transmission of light in guide lighting channel 16 as shown in Figure 4, Fig. 4 is the light transmission and the touch condition synoptic diagram of the guide lighting channel among the liquid crystal panel embodiment of the present invention, light 30 mode with total reflection in guide lighting channel 16 is transmitted.When being subjected to touch pressure 29, liquid crystal panel can produce distortion, guide lighting channel 16 also can produce distortion accordingly, at this moment, the total reflection that is transmitted in light wherein will be destroyed, originally a light part of transmitting in the total reflection mode will continue transmission forward through deformation place, some will reflect, and promptly transmit to the input end of guide lighting channel 16 along the direction opposite with original transmission direction.This partial reflection light can be always arrives second channel on the flexible PCB along guide lighting channel, and arrives the semi-transparent semi-reflecting lens that is provided with on the second channel, and light can not see through at the semi-transparent semi-reflecting lens place this moment, can only reflect once more at the semi-transparent semi-reflecting lens place.Light reflected will enter second receiving end of touch detection unit 21 along the 3rd light-path, and the detecting unit 21 that is touched receives.The standard light that touch detection unit 21 receives first receiving end at this moment is the light that the light emission unit initially sends, and the reflection ray that receives with second receiving end compares.Reflection ray is compared with standard light, and phase place must change, and touch detection unit 21 just can draw touch location by analyzing the phase changing capacity of reflection ray relative standard light.Concrete, the phase place of tentative standard light is a, and then the phase place of reflection ray is (2 π nd+ π)/(a+ λ), and wherein, n is the refractive index of glass, and λ is the wavelength of light, d is the propagation distance of light; Touch detection unit 21 can detect the phase value that obtains standard light, the phase value of reflection ray, and is under the known situation at n and λ, just can calculate d, and promptly the propagation distance of light just can obtain touch location thus.The corresponding respectively touch detection unit of each bar guide lighting channel, and guide lighting channel also is divided into grid line direction guide lighting channel and data line direction guide lighting channel, corresponding, the touch detection unit that is connected with grid line direction guide lighting channel just can detect the X coordinate that draws the touch point, the touch detection unit that is connected with data line direction guide lighting channel just can detect the Y coordinate that draws the touch point, thereby determines touch point position.
The structure of above-mentioned liquid crystal panel can be carried out various variations in concrete enforcement, guide lighting channel also can be arranged on the glass inside of color membrane substrates; When guide lighting channel is arranged on the glass inside of color membrane substrates, light emission unit and touch detection unit also can be integrated on the grid line driving circuit, adopt flexible PCB directly the guide lighting channel on light emission unit and the touch detection unit color membrane substrates to be communicated with then.
In addition, light emission unit and touch detection unit also can not be integrated on the grid line driving circuit, but are integrated on the data line drive circuit, perhaps are provided with separately; Concentrate the mode that is connected to flexible PCB after grid line direction guide lighting channel and data line direction guide lighting channel also can not adopt and converge again, be arranged, be connected to the mode of a plurality of light emission unit by a plurality of flexible PCBs and adopt to divide; Guide lighting channel can be formed on the inboard or the outside of array base palte or color membrane substrates and all can wait.
Present embodiment is by being arranged on guide lighting channel the glass substrate inside in the liquid crystal panel, and the position that utilizes light total reflection propagation principle sensing touch-control to move, solved the liquid crystal panel complex manufacturing technology that has touch controllable function at present, and bring out relevant bad problem easily, realized simplification technology, but and significantly improved precision, yield integrated level and the output capacity of liquid crystal panel with touch controllable function.
Embodiments of the invention also provide a kind of manufacture method of substrate, and Fig. 5 is the schematic flow sheet of the manufacture method embodiment of substrate of the present invention, and as shown in Figure 5, this method can may further comprise the steps:
Step 301, be provided with many in the glass internal chiasma that is used to make substrate and be used to make light to carry out the guide lighting channel that total reflection is propagated therein, and described guide lighting channel be provided with the position with will be corresponding at the array pattern of described setting on glass, being provided with in the scope of described array pattern;
Concrete, this substrate can be array base palte or color membrane substrates.When the substrate of making was array base palte, described array pattern was grid line and data line, described guide lighting channel be provided with the position with will be corresponding at the grid line and the data line of described setting on glass, and being provided with in the scope at described grid line and data line; When the substrate of making was color membrane substrates, described array pattern was black matrix, described guide lighting channel be provided with the position with will be corresponding at the black matrix of described setting on glass, and being provided with in the scope at described black matrix.
Step 302, utilization are provided with the glass of described guide lighting channel and make substrate, make in the described substrate of finishing, at the described described array pattern that is provided with on glass.
Concrete, when the substrate of making was array base palte or color membrane substrates, it was identical with the step of existing manufacture craft to utilize the glass that is provided with described guide lighting channel to make the technology of array base palte or color membrane substrates, does not repeat them here.In the array base palte that manufacturing is finished, at grid line and the data line of being provided with on glass; In the color membrane substrates that manufacturing is finished, be provided with black matrix on glass.
Present embodiment is by being arranged on guide lighting channel the glass inside of substrate, and the position that utilizes light total reflection propagation principle sensing touch-control to move, solved the substrate manufacture complex process that has touch controllable function at present, and bring out relevant bad problem easily, realized simplification technology, but and significantly improved precision, yield integrated level and the output capacity of substrate with touch controllable function.
On the basis of the manufacture method embodiment of above-mentioned substrate shown in Figure 5, in the step 301 wherein, being provided with of guide lighting channel can be adopted method shown in Figure 6, Fig. 6 is provided with the deposition process synoptic diagram of first embodiment for the guide lighting channel in the manufacture method of substrate of the present invention, as shown in Figure 6, this method is to adopt sedimentation optical material to be deposited to the inside of glass, substrate wherein can be array base palte or color membrane substrates, now be that example describes with the array base palte, this method can may further comprise the steps:
Step 401, on the surface of the glass 51 that is used to make array base palte by the thin layer 52 of technologies such as deposition formation optical materials;
Step 402, according to the position and the width of grid line on the array base palte and data line, by technologies such as exposure and etchings, make thin layer 52 form the light guiding graphics 53 that has with described grid line and data line analogous shape, wherein, this light guiding graphics 53 can be provided with comparatively sparsely than grid line and data line; And this light guiding graphics 53 is provided with in the scope grid line and data line, and the guide lighting channel of formation comprises grid line direction guide lighting channel and data line direction guide lighting channel;
Step 403, glass 51 is heated, make optical material in the above-mentioned light guiding graphics 53 with required form deposit to the inside of glass, concrete heating-up temperature can specifically be provided with according to the optical material of different performance, for example can be 300 ℃~1000 ℃.
In the step 301 of the manufacture method embodiment of substrate shown in Figure 5, the setting of guide lighting channel also can be adopted method shown in Figure 7, Fig. 7 is provided with the schematic flow sheet of second embodiment for the guide lighting channel in the manufacture method of substrate of the present invention, as shown in Figure 7, this method is not that optical material is deposited to glass inside, but adopt optical fiber is imbedded in the glass, and substrate wherein can be array base palte or color membrane substrates, now still be that example describes with the array base palte, this method can may further comprise the steps:
Step 501, by technologies such as dry etchings at the formation groove on glass that is used to make array base palte, described groove be provided with the position with will be corresponding at the grid line and the data line of described setting on glass, and being provided with in the scope at described grid line and data line; This groove can be set to steadiness V-type groove preferably.
Step 502, the optical fiber that will be used for making light carry out the total reflection propagation are therein imbedded described groove;
Step 503, be embedded with above the groove of described optical fiber by applying or deposition forms layer protective layer, for example, this protective seam can adopt silicon nitride or silicon dioxide etc.
Present embodiment is by being arranged on guide lighting channel the glass inside of substrate, and the position that utilizes light total reflection propagation principle sensing touch-control to move, solved the substrate manufacture complex process that has touch controllable function at present, and bring out relevant bad problem easily, realized simplification technology, but and significantly improved precision, yield integrated level and the output capacity of substrate with touch controllable function.
The present invention also provides a kind of method of making liquid crystal panel, Fig. 8 is the schematic flow sheet of the manufacture method embodiment of liquid crystal panel of the present invention, utilize method shown in Figure 8 to make and obtain the liquid crystal panel structure described in the liquid crystal panel embodiment, as shown in Figure 8, this method mainly comprises:
Step 601, make first substrate and second substrate, described first substrate or second substrate adopt the manufacture method of the substrate of Fig. 5~shown in Figure 7 to make.
Concrete, above-mentioned first substrate can be array base palte, second substrate can be color membrane substrates; This first substrate and second substrate are to adopt the manufacture method of the substrate of Fig. 5~shown in Figure 7 to make.Be to adopt method manufacturing array substrate or the color membrane substrates described in the manufacture method embodiment of aforesaid substrate in this step, this method can not repeat them here referring to the manufacture method embodiment of aforesaid substrate.
Step 602, described first substrate and second substrate are carried out the box setting;
For example, the substrate of manufacturing is array base palte and color membrane substrates, and the glass inside of array base palte or color membrane substrates is provided with guide lighting channel.After completing, array base palte and color membrane substrates are carried out the box setting.
Step 603, driving circuit is set, and light emission unit and touch detection unit are connected with guide lighting channel at periphery to first substrate behind the box and second substrate.
With array base palte and color membrane substrates to box after, also need driving circuit be set at its periphery, for example, grid line driving circuit and data line drive circuit are set, and grid line driving circuit and data line drive circuit are coupled together by flexible PCB and array base palte.In addition, also need light emission unit and touch detection unit are connected with guide lighting channel, each bar guide lighting channel connects a touch detection unit; The light emission unit is used to provide incident ray, and touch detection unit is used for the phase change sensing touch position of the light that returns according to described light when touch causes guide lighting channel generation deformation.In concrete the enforcement, light emission unit and touch detection unit can be arranged on the peripheral driving circuit of array base palte and color membrane substrates, for example, can be integrated on grid line driving circuit or the data line drive circuit, and be connected with guide lighting channel by flexible PCB, the attachment process of flexible PCB is identical with common module bonding technology.
Present embodiment is by being arranged on guide lighting channel the glass substrate inside in the liquid crystal panel, and the position that utilizes light total reflection propagation principle sensing touch-control to move, solved the liquid crystal panel complex manufacturing technology that has touch controllable function at present, and bring out relevant bad problem easily, realized simplification technology, but and significantly improved precision, yield integrated level and the output capacity of liquid crystal panel with touch controllable function.
It should be noted that at last: above embodiment is only in order to technical scheme of the present invention to be described but not limit it, although the present invention is had been described in detail with reference to preferred embodiment, those of ordinary skill in the art is to be understood that: it still can make amendment or be equal to replacement technical scheme of the present invention, and these modifications or be equal to replacement and also can not make amended technical scheme break away from the spirit and scope of technical solution of the present invention.