US 7,593,067 B2
Electro-optical device and electronic equipment having touch panel with resin having particular elastic modulus
Satoshi Taguchi, Tottori (Japan); Shinji Sakurai, Matsumoto (Japan); and Tsukasa Funasaka, Shiojiri (Japan)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, (Japan)
Filed on Jan. 25, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/657,974.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-017330 (JP), filed on Jan. 26, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0171326 A1, Jul. 26, 2007
Int. Cl. G02F 1/1335 (2006.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/043 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 349—12  [349/160; 345/173; 345/177] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electro-optical device, comprising:
an electro-optical panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, and an electro-optical substance interposed between the first and the second substrates;
a third substrate arranged on the second substrate;
a fourth substrate made from glass and arranged on the third substrate via a spacer;
a position detector provided on the third substrate and detecting a pressed position on the fourth substrate based on changes in surface waves generated on the third substrate;
a resin film provided on the fourth substrate and opposed to the third substrate; and
a resin plate arranged on the fourth substrate, the fourth substrate having a first side and a second side opposing the first side, the resin film being provided on the first side, the second side having a depressed part in which the resin plate is disposed, the depressed part substantially corresponding to a touch area.