CN107450772A - Flexible touch sensor and flexible touch display device - Google Patents

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CN107450772A
CN107450772A CN201710590254.7A CN201710590254A CN107450772A CN 107450772 A CN107450772 A CN 107450772A CN 201710590254 A CN201710590254 A CN 201710590254A CN 107450772 A CN107450772 A CN 107450772A
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This application discloses a kind of flexible touch sensor and flexible touch display device, flexible touch sensor includes:The first touch control electrode and second touch control electrode that multiple insulation intersect, the first touch control electrode and second touch control electrode extend with second direction in the first direction respectively;Transparent electrode layer, at least one transparency electrode is provided with transparent electrode layer;Insulating barrier, insulating barrier are formed between the first touch control electrode and transparent electrode layer, and insulating barrier is electrically connected formed with multiple vias, transparency electrode by via with first touch control electrode;Wherein, the angle between first direction and the folding shaft of flexible touch sensor is more than the angle between second direction and folding shaft.According to the scheme of the application, the bending resistance of the first touch control electrode can be strengthened, reduce the first touch control electrode due to the possibility for being broken and fractureing caused by bending, so as to reduce the risk of touch control detection failure.

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Flexible touch sensor and flexible touch display device
Technical field
The disclosure relates generally to display technology field, more particularly to a kind of flexible touch sensor and flexible touch are shown Device.
Background technology
With the development of Display Technique, the application of flexible display technologies is more and more extensive.In existing flexible display panels Structure in, generally include flexible base board and be formed at each display device Rotating fields of flexible base board side.It is for example, flexible The structure of OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode, Organic Light Emitting Diode) display panel can include:It is flexible Substrate, the multiple conductive layers sequentially formed on flexible substrates, including thin film transistor array layer, anode layer, organic light emission Layer, cathode layer and encapsulated layer, when flexible OLED display panel is touch-control display panel, 1-2 touch-control electricity can also be included Pole layer.Insulating barrier can also be set between each conductive layer, so as to be insulated between adjacent conductive layer.
In addition, some flexible display panels have the region (can be described as bent area) that at least a portion can fold.It is flexible The part that display panel is in bent area can be along some direction or in an angular range all directions bending.
However, in the flexible display panels of prior art, the bending resistance of each electrode layer still has much room for improvement.
The content of the invention
In view of drawbacks described above of the prior art or deficiency, it is expected to provide a kind of flexible touch sensor and flexible touch Display device, to solve technical problem present in prior art.
In a first aspect, the embodiment of the present application provides a kind of flexible touch sensor, the first touch-control that multiple insulation intersect Electrode and second touch control electrode, the first touch control electrode and second touch control electrode extend with second direction in the first direction respectively;Thoroughly Prescribed electrode layer, at least one transparency electrode is provided with transparent electrode layer;Insulating barrier, insulating barrier are formed in the first touch control electrode Between transparent electrode layer, insulating barrier passes through via and the first touch control electrode electricity formed with multiple vias, transparency electrode Connection;Wherein, the angle between first direction and the folding shaft of flexible touch sensor is more than between second direction and folding shaft Angle.
In certain embodiments, the first touch control electrode and second touch control electrode are wire mesh electrode.
In certain embodiments, transparency electrode is the strip shaped electric poles extended in a first direction.
In certain embodiments, the first touch control electrode includes multiple first electrode blocks and is connected to two neighboring first The first connecting bridge between electrode block;Second touch control electrode includes multiple second electrode blocks and is connected to two neighboring second The second connecting bridge between electrode block;First electrode block, the first connecting bridge and second electrode block are formed in same metal level.
In certain embodiments, the second connecting bridge is located at transparent electrode layer.
In certain embodiments, each transparency electrode includes multiple open regions;Each second connecting bridge is formed in open region, and Each second connecting bridge and transparency electrode mutually insulated.
In certain embodiments, each first electrode block of same first touch control electrode at least through a via with Same transparency electrode electrical connection.
In certain embodiments, transparency electrode is corresponded with the first touch control electrode and electrically connected.
In certain embodiments, the first touch control electrode is touch-control driving electrodes, and second touch control electrode is touch-control sensing electricity Pole;Transparency electrode at least partly overlaps with second touch control electrode where flexible touch sensor on in-plane.
Second aspect, present invention also provides a kind of flexible touch display device, including flexible touch sensing as above Device.
In certain embodiments, flexible touch display device also includes organic light emitting functional layer and covering organic light emission work( The thin-film encapsulation layer of ergosphere.
In certain embodiments, flexible touch sensor is formed in the upper surface of thin-film encapsulation layer;
Wherein, the upper surface of thin-film encapsulation layer is the surface of the remote organic luminescence function layer of thin-film encapsulation layer.
In certain embodiments, transparent electrode layer is arranged at insulating barrier close to the side of thin-film encapsulation layer.
According to the scheme of the application, the transparency electrode electrically connected by setting with the first touch control electrode, in bending, thoroughly Prescribed electrode can play certain protective effect to the first touch control electrode, so as to strengthen the bending resistance of the first touch control electrode, subtract Small first touch control electrode is due to the possibility for being broken and fractureing caused by bending, so as to reduce the risk of touch control detection failure.
In certain embodiments, the first touch control electrode is touch-control driving electrodes and second touch control electrode is touch-control sensing electricity Pole.In these embodiments, by setting transparency electrode being put down with second touch control electrode where flexible touch sensor It is at least partly overlapping on the direction of face, the outer touch-control of bound pair second electricity can be shielded when flexible touch sensor carries out touch-control sensing The interference for the touch sensible signal that pole receives so that sensitivity of touch detection and the degree of accuracy are correspondingly lifted.
In addition, in some embodiments of flexible touch display device, by the way that flexible touch sensor is formed in film The upper surface of encapsulated layer, it can further isolate the first touch control electrode, second touch control electrode and show electrode (such as OLED The negative electrode and anode of display), it is mutually dry between the first touch control electrode, second touch control electrode and show electrode so as to reduce Disturb.
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By reading the detailed description made to non-limiting example made with reference to the following drawings, the application its Its feature, objects and advantages will become more apparent upon:
Figure 1A shows the schematic diagram of the flexible touch sensor of the application one embodiment;
Figure 1B is the schematic cross sectional views of the A-A ' along Figure 1A;
When the flexible touch sensor that Fig. 1 C schematically show the present embodiment is in bending state, first direction, Relative position relation between two directions and folding direction of principal axis;
Fig. 2A shows the schematic diagram of the flexible touch sensor of another embodiment of the application;
Fig. 2 B are the schematic cross sectional views of the B-B ' along Fig. 2A;
Fig. 2 C are the schematic cross sectional views of the C-C ' along Fig. 2A;
Fig. 2 D are the schematic diagram of the first touch control electrode in Fig. 2A illustrated embodiments;
Fig. 2 E are the schematic diagram of second touch control electrode in Fig. 2A illustrated embodiments;
Fig. 3 A are the schematic diagram of the flexible touch sensor of the application another embodiment;
Fig. 3 B are Fig. 3 A schematic cross sectional views;
Fig. 3 C are the schematic diagram of the transparent electrode layer in Fig. 3 A;
Fig. 4 is the schematic diagram of one embodiment of the flexible touch display device of the application;
Fig. 5 is a kind of schematic diagram when the flexible touch display device of the application is organic light-emitting display device.
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The application is described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples.It is understood that this place is retouched The specific embodiment stated is used only for explaining related invention, rather than the restriction to the invention.It also should be noted that it is It is easy to describe, illustrate only the part related to invention in accompanying drawing.
It should be noted that in the case where not conflicting, the feature in embodiment and embodiment in the application can phase Mutually combination.Describe the application in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and in conjunction with the embodiments.
It is the schematic diagram of one embodiment of the flexible touch sensor of the application referring to shown in Figure 1A, Figure 1B For the schematic cross sectional views of the A-A ' along Figure 1A.Below, the flexible touch sensing to the present embodiment will be carried out with reference to Figure 1A and Figure 1B Device is described in detail.
The flexible touch sensor of the present embodiment includes the first touch control electrode 110 and the second touch-control that multiple insulation intersect Electrode 120.D1 extensions and the D2 extensions in a second direction of second touch control electrode 120 in the first direction of first touch control electrode 110. Here, the bearing of trend D1 of the first touch control electrode 110, the bearing of trend D2 of second touch control electrode 120 each mean that flexible touch passes When sensor is not bent, the bearing of trend of the first touch control electrode 110 and second touch control electrode 120.
The flexible touch sensor of the present embodiment also includes transparent electrode layer and insulating barrier 140.
At least one transparency electrode 130 is provided with transparent electrode layer.Insulating barrier 140 is formed in the first touch control electrode 110 Between transparent electrode layer.In addition, being also formed with multiple vias on insulating barrier 140, a transparency electrode 130 can pass through via Electrically connected with one of them first touch control electrode 110.
The flexible touch sensor of the present embodiment can be bent and/or be folded.When by external force act on and bend or During folding, flexible touch sensor can bend or fold along a certain axis.This direction can be referred to as flexible touch sensing The folding shaft of device.It is understood that folding shaft is the location of on flexible touch sensor and/or bearing of trend can be with It is fixed or unfixed.
Specifically, for example, in application scenes, it is assumed that flexible touch sensor can be at an arbitrary position along specific Direction is bent, then, in these application scenarios, the bearing of trend of folding shaft is fixed (i.e. the specific direction), and its Location is not fixed in flexible touch sensor, and in other words, the arbitrary portion of flexible touch sensor can be along spy Determine direction to be bent.
Or in other application scenarios, a certain subregion of flexible touch sensor can bend or fold (for example, being referred to as bending region), in bending region, flexible touch sensor can be bent along any direction.Should at these It is unfixed with the direction and position that in scene, bend axle.
In addition, in the flexible touch sensor of the present embodiment, the folding shaft of first direction D1 and flexible touch sensor it Between angle be more than angle between second direction D2 and folding shaft.
Referring to shown in Fig. 1 C, that schematically shows relative between first direction D1, second direction D2 and folding shaft Position relationship.
It can visually see from Fig. 1 C, due to the first touch control electrode 110, D1 extends and the second touch-control in the first direction D2 extends electrode 120 in a second direction, and folding shaft L and first direction D1 angle is more than folding shaft L and second direction D2's Angle, therefore, in bending, the stress that the first touch control electrode 110 is subject to is more than the flexible touch sensor of the present embodiment The stress of second touch control electrode 120.And by setting the transparency electrode 130 electrically connected with the first touch control electrode 110, can To play certain protective effect to the first touch control electrode 110, bending institute is acted on by external force so as to reduce flexible touch sensor The risk of caused fracture.Specifically, the first touch control electrode 110 electrically connected with transparency electrode 130 when some because of bending and During fracture, transparency electrode 130 can replace the first touch control electrode 110 of the fracture to carry out touch detection.For example, if first touches Control electrode 110 is touch-control driving electrodes, and when first touch control electrode 110 is broken, transparency electrode 130 can replace should First touch control electrode 110 provides touch-control drive signal, completes the function of touch-control driving;If the first touch control electrode 110 is touch-control sense Electrode is answered, when first touch control electrode 110 is broken, transparency electrode 130 can adopt instead of first touch control electrode 110 Collect touch sensible signal, so as to realize the detection of touch location.On the other hand, if the first touch control electrode 110 is not broken, After being electrically connected with transparency electrode 130, it can also reduce the resistance of first touch control electrode 110, so as to lift the spirit of touch detection Sensitivity.
In some optional implementations of the present embodiment, the He of the first touch control electrode 110 in flexible touch sensor Second touch control electrode 120 can be wire mesh electrode.Wire mesh electrode can be interweaved by more metal lines to be formed.Metal Mesh electrode has the advantages that bending resistance is strong, resistance is small, is not susceptible to open circuit, therefore, using wire mesh electrode as First touch control electrode and second touch control electrode are applied into flexible touch sensor, can improve touching for flexible touch sensor Touch detection reliability.Wire mesh electrode such as can using nano-silver thread penetrance high material make, such one Come, when flexible touch sensor is applied to display panel, the penetrance of display panel will not be had undesirable effect.
In addition, in some optional implementations of the present embodiment, each transparency electrode in flexible touch sensor is The strip shaped electric poles extended in a first direction.By the way that transparency electrode is arranged into consistent with the bearing of trend of the first touch control electrode 110 Strip shaped electric poles so, once the first touch control electrode 110 electrically connected with transparency electrode is broken, due to transparency electrode Bearing of trend it is consistent with the first touch control electrode, transparency electrode equally can with each second touch control electrode 120 perpendicular to The direction upper part of plane overlaps where flexible touch sensor (during non-bending state), so as to realize the detection of touch location. It is the schematic diagram of the flexible touch sensor of the application another embodiment referring to shown in Fig. 2A.Fig. 2 B are along Fig. 2A Middle B-B ' sectional view, Fig. 2 C are the sectional view of the C-C ' along Fig. 2A.
Similar with the embodiment shown in Figure 1A and Figure 1B, the flexible touch sensor of the present embodiment equally includes transparent electricity The first touch control electrode 210 and second touch control electrode 220 that pole layer, insulating barrier 240, multiple insulation intersect.First touch control electrode 210 D1 extensions and the D2 extensions in a second direction of second touch control electrode 220 in the first direction.It is provided with least on transparent electrode layer One transparency electrode 230.Insulating barrier 240 is formed between the first touch control electrode 210 and transparent electrode layer.In addition, insulating barrier Multiple vias are also formed with 240, transparency electrode 230 can be electrically connected by via with one of them first touch control electrode 210.
Unlike the embodiment shown in Figure 1A and Figure 1B, in the present embodiment, the first touch control electrode 210 includes multiple First electrode block and the first connecting bridge being connected between two neighboring first electrode block.Second touch control electrode 220 includes more Individual second electrode block and the second connecting bridge being connected between two neighboring second electrode block.And first electrode block, the first company Bridge is connect to be formed in same metal level with second electrode block.
Specifically, referring to shown in Fig. 2 D and Fig. 2 E, respectively illustrating the first touch control electrode 210 and second in the present embodiment The schematic diagram of touch control electrode 220.
As can be seen that the first touch control electrode includes multiple first electrode blocks 211 and connection two neighboring first from Fig. 2 D First connecting bridge 212 of electrode block 211.In addition, as can be seen that second touch control electrode includes multiple second electrodes from Fig. 2 D Block 221 and the second connecting bridge 222 for connecting two neighboring second electrode block 221.
As can be seen that first electrode block 211, the first connecting bridge 212 and the shape of second electrode block 221 from Fig. 2 B and Fig. 2 C Into in same metal level.And the second connecting bridge 222 then formed with first electrode block 211, the first connecting bridge 212 and second The different metal level of electrode block 221.Second connecting bridge 222 can be by forming on insulating barrier between the two metal layers Via and corresponding second electrode block 221 electrically connect.
Similar with the embodiment shown in Figure 1A and Figure 1B, in the present embodiment, folding shaft and first direction D1 angle are more than Folding shaft and second direction D2 angle, therefore, the flexible touch sensor of the present embodiment is in bending, the first touch control electrode 210 stress being subject to are more than the stress of second touch control electrode 220.And by setting and the electricity of the first touch control electrode 210 The transparency electrode 230 of connection, when the first touch control electrode 210 bends and is broken the first touch control electrode 210 can be replaced to realize and touched Detection function is touched, and does not occur to bend the resistance that the first touch control electrode 210 is reduced during fracture in the first touch control electrode 210, so as to Reduce risk of the flexible touch sensor by the fracture caused by external force effect bending.
In addition, in the present embodiment, by the way that first electrode block 211, the first connecting bridge 212 and second electrode block 221 are set In same metal level, the spacing between first electrode block 211 and second electrode block 221 can be reduced.Carrying out touch detection When, the semaphore change of the inductance capacitance formed between first electrode block 211 and second electrode block 221 is bigger so that touches inspection The precision of survey is higher.
Referring to shown in Fig. 3 A, being the schematic diagram of another embodiment of the flexible touch sensor of the application, scheme 3B is Fig. 3 A schematic cross sectional views.
Similar with the embodiment shown in Fig. 2A, the flexible touch sensor of the present embodiment equally includes transparent electrode layer, absolutely The first touch control electrode 310 and second touch control electrode 320 that edge layer 340, multiple insulation intersect.First touch control electrode 310 along first Direction D1 extends and the D2 extensions in a second direction of second touch control electrode 320.At least one transparent electricity is provided with transparent electrode layer Pole 330.Insulating barrier 340 is formed between the first touch control electrode 310 and transparent electrode layer.In addition, also formed on insulating barrier 340 There are multiple vias, transparency electrode 330 can be electrically connected by via with one of them first touch control electrode 310.In addition, this implementation In example, the first touch control electrode equally includes multiple first electrode blocks and be connected between two neighboring first electrode block the One connecting bridge.Second touch control electrode includes multiple second electrode blocks and be connected between two neighboring second electrode block the Two connecting bridges.And first electrode block, the first connecting bridge and second electrode block are formed in same metal level.
Unlike the embodiment shown in Fig. 2A, in the present embodiment, the second connecting bridge is formed in transparent electrode layer.
It is the schematic diagram of the transparent electrode layer of the flexible touch sensor of the present embodiment referring to shown in Fig. 3 C.
As can be seen that being formed in transparency electrode 330 formed with multiple open regions, the second connecting bridge 322 at this from Fig. 3 C In a little open regions, for example, being correspondingly formed second connecting bridge 322 in each open region.Each connecting bridge 322 with it is transparent The mutually insulated of electrode 330.
Similar with the embodiment shown in Fig. 2A, in the present embodiment, folding shaft and first direction D1 angle are more than folding shaft With second direction D2 angle, therefore, the flexible touch sensor of the present embodiment in bending, the first touch control electrode 310 by Stress be more than second touch control electrode 320 stress.And electrically connected by setting with the first touch control electrode 310 Transparency electrode 330, touch detection can be realized instead of the first touch control electrode 310 when the first touch control electrode 310 bends and is broken Function, and do not occur to bend the resistance that the first touch control electrode 310 is reduced during fracture in the first touch control electrode 310, it is soft so as to reduce Property touch sensor by external force effect bending caused by fracture risk.
On the other hand, in the present embodiment, by the way that first electrode block, the first connecting bridge and second electrode block are arranged on together One metal level, can reduce the spacing between first electrode block and second electrode block.When carrying out touch detection, the first electricity The semaphore change of the inductance capacitance formed between pole block and second electrode block is bigger so that the precision of touch detection is higher.
In addition, in the present embodiment, by the way that the second connecting bridge 322 is arranged on into transparent electrode layer, system can be further reduced Make the quantity of the film layer of flexible touch sensor, reduce the process for making flexible touch sensor and be advantageous to flexible touch Touch the slimming of sensor.It is appreciated that the technical scheme that the present embodiment is provided, is not increasing the base of any other film layer On plinth, the lifting of the bending reliability of the first touch control electrode is realized, reduces the resistance of the first touch control electrode.
In some optional implementations of the embodiment shown in Fig. 2A and Fig. 3 A, same first touch control electrode 210th, 310 each first electrode block electrically connects at least through a via with same transparency electrode 230,330.Such one Come, because each first electrode block is electrically connected by via with transparency electrode, no matter the first touch control electrode occurs to break in what position Split, transparency electrode can replace the first electrode block realize the function of touch detection or touch sensible, will not cause this One electrode block region touch control detection failure.Further, because the first connecting bridge 312 is small in second direction D2 width In first electrode block second direction D2 width, when being bent, if cracking, the electricity of the first connecting bridge 312 to the first Pole block is easier that open circuit occurs.If occurring open circuit in the part of some first connecting bridge 312, and first connecting bridge 312 is along the Wherein side in the relative both sides in one direction, can not normal work by the first electrode block for causing no this side of via without via Make.If now, the relevant position of transparency electrode is also broken, touch detection will be caused dead band, the precision of touch detection occur It is remarkably decreased with sensitivity.Wherein therefore, in place of via being arranged on into each first electrode block, the can be avoided as much as The hair of a part of region touch-control failure caused by one touch control electrode 310 and the transparency electrode 330 being electrically connected while fracture It is raw, lift the reliability of flexible touch sensor.Also, by set each first electrode block by least one via with Same transparency electrode electrical connection, either fracture occurs for first electrode block or transparency electrode is broken, as long as the first electricity The fracture of pole block and transparency electrode does not occur at same position, and the two can be by UNICOM above and below via, so as to whole piece First electrode and whole piece transparency electrode can work on, and fracture will not be to the touch detection work(of first electrode and transparency electrode Energy or touch sensing function produce any influence.
In some optional implementations of the flexible touch sensor of each embodiment of the application, transparency electrode and the One touch control electrode can correspond electrical connection.In these optional implementations, the first touch control electrode can be that touch-control drives Moving electrode and second touch control electrode can be touch-control sensing electrode.In other words, can be to first when carrying out touch detection Touch control electrode is passed through touch-control drive signal successively, and detects the touch sensible signal of second touch control electrode collection simultaneously, passes through Touch sensible signal determines touch location.In these optional implementations, pass through touch-control driving electrodes and transparency electrode It is one-to-one to electrically connect and apply touch-control driving letter to touch-control driving electrodes and transparency electrode simultaneously in touch detection Number, the interference of outer bound pair touch sensible signal can be shielded, so as to further lift the precision of touch detection.
In addition, in these optional implementations, transparency electrode can be touched with second touch control electrode perpendicular to flexibility It is at least partly overlapping on in-plane where touching sensor, so, can also between transparency electrode and second touch control electrode Inductance capacitance is formed, the semaphore of inductance capacitance when carrying out touch detection so as to further increase, is advantageous to lifting and touches inspection The degree of accuracy of survey.
It is shown in Figure 4, it is the schematic diagram of one embodiment of the flexible touch display device of the application.
The flexible touch display device of the present embodiment can include the flexible touch sensor of any of the above one embodiment 410。
Furthermore, it is to be understood that the flexible touch display device of the present embodiment can also include flexible base board 420, for showing The film layer 430 shown and the protective layer 440 for being protected to each film layer of flexible touch display device.Herein, it is used for The film layer 430 of display can be configured according to displaying principle.
The flexible touch display device of the present embodiment goes for any possible Display Technique form, including but not Be limited to micro- diode displaying (micro LED), quantum dot show (Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diodes, QLED), Electronic Paper etc., those skilled in the art can be selected according to the demand of concrete application scene.
The flexible touch display device of the present embodiment, due to adding transparency electrode in flexible touch sensor therein Layer, the first touch control electrode can be protected to be not easily broken in bending, reduce the wind to be failed due to touch control detection caused by bending Danger, improve the touch detection reliability of flexible touch display device.
It is appreciated that the flexible touch display device of the application can be organic light-emitting display device.It is shown in Figure 5, A kind of schematic diagram when for the flexible touch display device of the application being organic light-emitting display device.
As shown in figure 5, flexible touch display device includes flexible base board 510, organic luminescence function layer 520 and flexibility Touch sensor 530.Herein, organic luminescence function layer can for example include anode 521, negative electrode 522 and be formed in anode Luminous organic material 523 between negative electrode.In addition, organic light-emitting display device also includes covering organic light emitting functional layer Thin-film encapsulation layer 540, thin-film encapsulation layer 540 are used as a kind of flexible package layer, can both play protection organic luminescence function layer 520 and the effect of other film layers (for example, thin film transistor (TFT) array), can also be in flexible touch display device by external force Bent therewith during effect bending.
In addition, as shown in figure 5, flexible touch sensor 530 can be formed in the upper surface of thin-film encapsulation layer 540.At this In, the upper surface of thin-film encapsulation layer 540 is the surface of the remote organic luminescence function layer 520 of thin-film encapsulation layer 540.Such one Come, be spaced between the organic luminescence function layer 520 for display and the flexible touch sensor 530 for touch detection it is larger, Interfering between touch detection and normal display can be reduced as much as possible.
Shown in Figure 5 in some optional implementations, it is close that transparent electrode layer 531 is arranged at insulating barrier 532 The side of thin-film encapsulation layer 540.In other words, in these optional implementations, the touch-control of transparent electrode layer 531 to the first Electrode, second touch control electrode are closer to organic luminescence function layer.So, in touch detection, while to the first touch-control Transparency electrode on electrode and transparent electrode layer 531 applies touch-control drive signal, can be with each below shielded film encapsulated layer Interference of the conductive film layer (for example, organic luminescence function layer and thin film transistor (TFT) array etc.) to touch sensible signal, so as to enter one The precision of step ground lifting touch detection.Specifically, for mutual capacitance type touch sensor, touch-control driving electrodes are transfused to touch-control drive Electrokinetic potential, touch-control sensing electrode output touch control detection current potential, the output current potential of touch-control sensing electrode is easily by display signal Influence, so as to cause signal fluctuation, influence the precision of touch detection, in the technical scheme that the embodiment of the present invention is provided, thoroughly Prescribed electrode electrically connects with touch-control driving electrodes, transparency electrode have with touch-control driving electrodes identical current potential, and transparency electrode is Plane-shape electrode, the first touch control electrode are metal grid electrode, and transparency electrode can be to the second touch-control as touch detection electrodes Electrode plays shielding action, increases the precision of touch location detection, meanwhile, the first touch control electrode is metal grid electrode, and And electrically connected with transparency electrode, the bending resistance characteristic of the first touch control electrode can be increased considerably.
It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that invention scope involved in the application, however it is not limited to above-mentioned technical characteristic The technical scheme that forms of particular combination, while should also cover in the case where not departing from inventive concept, by above-mentioned technical characteristic Or other technical schemes that its equivalent feature is combined and formed.Such as features described above with it is disclosed herein (but It is not limited to) there is the technical characteristic technical scheme being replaced mutually and formed of similar functions.

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  1. A kind of 1. flexible touch sensor, it is characterised in that including:
    The first touch control electrode and second touch control electrode that multiple insulation intersect, first touch control electrode and second touch-control electricity Pole extends with second direction in the first direction respectively;
    Transparent electrode layer, at least one transparency electrode is provided with the transparent electrode layer;
    Insulating barrier, the insulating barrier are formed between first touch control electrode and the transparent electrode layer, the insulating barrier shape Into there is multiple vias, a transparency electrode is electrically connected by the via with first touch control electrode;
    Wherein, the angle between the folding shaft of the first direction and the flexible touch sensor be more than the second direction with Angle between the folding shaft.
  2. 2. flexible touch sensor according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:
    First touch control electrode and the second touch control electrode are wire mesh electrode.
  3. 3. flexible touch sensor according to claim 1, it is characterised in that
    The transparency electrode is the strip shaped electric poles extended in a first direction.
  4. 4. flexible touch sensor according to claim 3, it is characterised in that
    First touch control electrode includes multiple first electrode blocks and is connected between the two neighboring first electrode block First connecting bridge;
    The second touch control electrode includes multiple second electrode blocks and is connected between the two neighboring second electrode block Second connecting bridge;
    The first electrode block, the first connecting bridge and the second electrode block are formed in same metal level.
  5. 5. flexible touch sensor according to claim 4, it is characterised in that
    Second connecting bridge is located at the transparent electrode layer.
  6. 6. flexible touch sensor according to claim 5, it is characterised in that:
    Each transparency electrode includes multiple open regions;
    Each second connecting bridge is formed in the open region, and each second connecting bridge and the transparency electrode are mutually exhausted Edge.
  7. 7. flexible touch sensor according to claim 5, it is characterised in that:
    Each first electrode block of same first touch control electrode at least through a via with it is same described Prescribed electrode electrically connects.
  8. 8. flexible touch sensor according to claim 1, it is characterised in that
    The transparency electrode is corresponded with first touch control electrode and electrically connected.
  9. 9. flexible touch sensor according to claim 8, it is characterised in that:
    First touch control electrode is touch-control driving electrodes, and the second touch control electrode is touch-control sensing electrode;
    The transparency electrode and the second touch control electrode perpendicular to in-plane where the flexible touch sensor up to Small part overlaps.
  10. 10. a kind of flexible touch display device, it is characterised in that touched including the flexibility as described in claim 1-9 any one Touch sensor.
  11. 11. flexible touch display device according to claim 10, it is characterised in that:
    The flexible touch display device also includes organic light emitting functional layer and covers the film envelope of the organic luminescence function layer Fill layer.
  12. 12. flexible touch display device according to claim 11, it is characterised in that:
    The flexible touch sensor is formed in the upper surface of the thin-film encapsulation layer;
    Wherein, the upper surface of the thin-film encapsulation layer is the table of the remote organic luminescence function layer of the thin-film encapsulation layer Face.
  13. 13. flexible touch display device according to claim 11, it is characterised in that:
    The transparent electrode layer is arranged at the insulating barrier close to the side of the thin-film encapsulation layer.
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