US 12,265,684 B2
Touch panel and touch panel display device including the same
Mi-Rae Lee, Paju-si (KR); Min-Suk Kong, Paju-si (KR); Young-Jin Choe, Paju-si (KR); and Young-Jun Jeon, Paju-si (KR)
Assigned to LG Display Co., Ltd., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG Display Co., Ltd., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/943,968.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0169837 (KR), filed on Dec. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0168780 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/044 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0446 (2019.05) 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A touch panel, comprising:
a substrate including a central area and a boundary area;
a barrier layer over the substrate;
a plurality of touch transmitting electrodes on the barrier layer; and
a plurality of touch receiving electrodes that cross the plurality of touch transmitting electrodes to define a plurality of touch units,
wherein one of the plurality of touch transmitting electrodes in the boundary area includes at least one transmitting main electrode, at least one transmitting auxiliary electrode that is parallel to and horizontally separated from the at least one transmitting main electrode, and at least one auxiliary connecting electrode that connects together the at least one transmitting main electrode and the at least one transmitting auxiliary electrode,
wherein the at least one transmitting main electrode, the at least one transmitting auxiliary electrode and the at least one auxiliary connecting electrode have a same layer as each other on the barrier layer, and
wherein one of the plurality of touch transmitting electrodes in the central area includes at least one transmitting main electrode but not any transmitting auxiliary electrode and auxiliary connecting electrode.