Patent Publication Number: US-10324571-B2

Title: Array substrate, manufacturing method thereof and touch display device

Description:
RELATED APPLICATIONS 
     The present application is the U.S. national phase entry of PCT/CN2017/073546, with an international filing date of Feb. 15, 2017, which claims the benefit of Chinese Patent Application No. 201610340825.7, filed on May 19, 2016, the entire disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference. 
     TECHNICAL FIELD 
     The present invention relates to the field of display technologies, and in particular to an array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a touch display device. 
     BACKGROUND 
     With rapid development of display technologies, touch screen panels have gradually pervaded people&#39;s lives. At present, the touch screen panels can be divided into: on cell touch panels and in cell touch panels, in accordance with their composition structures. More and more in cell touch panels have been applied in high-performance display products due to their characteristics such as high transmittance and thin thickness. 
     SUMMARY 
     It is thus desirable to provide an array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a touch display device for alleviating or avoiding a display grayscale difference occurred between pixel units provided with touch leads and those provided with no touch leads under the control of a same data voltage. 
     According to an aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, an array substrate is provided, comprising: a common electrode layer comprising a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes distributed in an array; a drive circuit; and a plurality of pixel units distributed in an array. N self-capacitance electrodes located in a same column constitute an electrode column, each electrode column corresponding to M columns of pixel units, and the N self-capacitance electrodes located in the same column are connected with the drive circuit via N touch leads arranged within different columns of pixel units, wherein M and N are positive integers and M&gt;N&gt;&gt;1. Among the M columns of pixel units, M-N columns of pixel units provided with no touch leads are provided with dummy leads connected with the drive circuit. Moreover, the drive circuit is used to input a common voltage signal into the dummy leads and the touch leads. 
     According to a further embodiment, a touch lead comprises a first sub-lead and a second sub-lead which are located in different layers and arranged to overlap each other, the first sub-lead being connected with the second sub-lead through a via. 
     According to a further embodiment, the array substrate further comprises data lines, and the second sub-leads are arranged in a same layer and made of a same material as the data lines of the array substrate. 
     According to a further embodiment, the dummy leads are arranged in a same layer as the first sub-leads. 
     According to a further embodiment, a number of pixel units between any two adjacent dummy leads is a fixed constant. 
     According to a further embodiment, each touch lead passes through all pixel units located in a same column, and/or each dummy lead passes through all pixel units located in a same column. 
     According to a further embodiment, a pixel unit comprises a blue sub-pixel, a red sub-pixel, and a green sub-pixel, a touch lead and/or a dummy lead being arranged within the blue sub-pixel. 
     According to a further embodiment, the pixel units comprise sub-pixels in which pixel electrodes are arranged, the common electrode layer being located above the pixel electrodes, and the first sub-leads being located above the second sub-leads, the self-capacitance electrodes being connected with the first sub-leads through vias. 
     According to a further embodiment, the pixel electrodes are in a block shape, and the self-capacitance electrodes have a strip-shaped slit pattern at positions corresponding to the pixel electrodes. 
     According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a touch display device is provided, which can comprise any of the array substrates as mentioned above. 
     According to yet another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a method for manufacturing any of the array substrates as mentioned above is provided, comprising: manufacturing a drive circuit. The method further comprises: forming gate lines on a base substrate; forming data lines and second sub-leads on the base substrate on which the gate lines have been formed; forming a first insulating layer on the base substrate on which the data lines and the second sub-leads have been formed; forming vias at positions of the first insulating layer corresponding to the second sub-leads; forming dummy leads on the base substrate on which the first insulating layer has been formed, and forming first sub-leads at the positions corresponding to the second sub-leads, the first sub-leads being connected with the second sub-leads through the vias to form touch leads, and the dummy leads and the touch leads being both connected with the drive circuit; and forming, on the base substrate on which the dummy leads and the touch leads have been formed, a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes distributed in an array. 
     According to a further embodiment, the method further comprises: prior to forming the plurality of self-capacitance electrodes distributed in an array, forming a second insulating layer on the base substrate on which the dummy leads and the touch leads have been formed, and forming further vias at positions of the second insulating layer corresponding to the first sub-leads, the self-capacitance electrodes being connected with the touch leads through the further vias. 
     An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a touch display device are provided in the embodiments of the present invention. The array substrate comprises: a common electrode layer comprising a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes distributed in an array; a drive circuit; and a plurality of pixel units distributed in an array. N self-capacitance electrodes located in a same column constitute an electrode column, each electrode column corresponding to M columns of pixel units, and the N self-capacitance electrodes located in the same column are connected with the drive circuit via N touch leads arranged within different columns of pixel units, wherein M and N are positive integers and M&gt;N&gt;&gt;1. Among the M columns of pixel units, M-N columns of pixel units provided with no touch leads are provided with dummy leads connected with the drive circuit, and the drive circuit is used to input a common voltage signal into the dummy leads and the touch leads. 
     In this way, by providing dummy leads in M-N columns of pixel units provided with no touch leads, the driving circuit can input a same common voltage signal to the dummy leads as to the touch leads, such that the parasitic capacitance generated between the dummy leads and the gate lines is the same as that generated between the touch leads and the gate lines. In this case, both pixel units provided with touch leads and those provided with no touch leads can be affected by the same parasitic capacitance. As a result, under the control of a same data voltage, the display grayscale difference between the pixel units can be reduced, thus improving the display effect. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS 
       In order to illustrate the embodiments of the present invention more clearly, the drawings required to be used in description of the embodiments or the prior art are briefly introduced below. It is apparent from the description that the drawings in the following descriptions are only used to illustrate some embodiments of the present invention. For those having ordinary skills in the art, other drawings can be further obtained from these drawings without undue experimentation. 
         FIG. 1  is a schematic structure diagram of an array substrate provided in the prior art; 
         FIG. 2  is a schematic structure diagram of an array substrate provided in an embodiment of the present invention; 
         FIG. 3  is an enlarged view of region A of  FIG. 2 ; 
         FIG. 4  is a schematic diagram of a layout of touch blocks provided in an embodiment of the present invention; 
         FIG. 5  is a schematic diagram of arrangement of dummy leads in  FIG. 2 ; 
         FIG. 6  is a schematic structure diagram of another array substrate provided in an embodiment of the present invention; 
         FIG. 7  is a sectional diagram of  FIG. 5  obtained along line O-O; 
         FIG. 8  is a sectional diagram of  FIG. 5  obtained along line O′-O′; 
         FIG. 9  is a schematic diagram of  FIG. 7  obtained in direction F; and 
         FIG. 10  is a flow chart of a method for manufacturing an array substrate provided in an embodiment of the present invention. 
     
    
    
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               01 —base substrate;  10 —self-capacitance electrode;  100 —electrode column;  11 —touch lead;  111 —first sub-lead;  112 —second sub-lead;  12 —dummy lead;  13 —pixel electrode;  14 —via;  15 —first insulating layer;  16 —second insulating layer;  20 —drive circuit;  30 —pixel unit;  301 —sub-pixel; G—gate of TFT; S—source of TFT; D—drain of TFT. 
           
         
       
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS 
     The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are described clearly and completely below in combination with the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. it is apparent from the description that the embodiments described are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of them. All other embodiments obtained by a person having ordinary skills in the art without undue experiments shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention based on the embodiments in the present invention. 
     The existing in cell touch panels mainly have two types of structures: mutual-capacitance and self-capacitance. As shown in  FIG. 1 , a current self-capacitance touch panel can include a plurality of block-shaped self-capacitance electrodes  10 . Each self-capacitance electrode  10  is connected with a drive circuit  20  via a touch lead  11 . When a user touches the touch panel, the capacitance of a self-capacitance electrode  10  at a touch position of fingers will be changed such that the touch position of fingers can be determined from vertical and horizontal coordinates of the self-capacitance electrode  10  where the change took place. 
     Generally, the self-capacitance electrodes  10  are square. Each self-capacitance electrode  10  corresponds to a position of M×M pixel units. A number of self-capacitance electrodes  10  located in a same column is N, wherein N is different from M. For example, when M=40 and N=32, self-capacitance electrodes  10  located in a same column can be connected with the drive circuit  20  via 32 mutually insulated touch leads  11 , respectively. In order to avoid touch blind regions, the touch leads  11  are generally arranged within the pixel units and the 32 mutually insulated touch leads  11  can be located within pixel units of different columns. However, since M=40, N=32, and M is greater than N, there are pixel units provided with no touch leads  11  among M columns of pixel units corresponding to the position of the self-capacitance electrodes  10  of a same column. In this case, since parasitic capacitance can be generated between the touch leads  11  and the gate lines and the parasitic capacitance will influence the display grayscale of the pixel units, there may be a display grayscale difference between pixel units provided with touch leads  11  and those provided with no touch leads  11  under the control of a same data voltage, which for example results in square display defects and thus reduces display uniformity. 
     An array substrate is provided in an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in  FIG. 2 , the array substrate comprises a common electrode layer and a drive circuit  20 . The common electrode layer comprises a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes  10  distributed in an array. Furthermore, as shown in  FIG. 3  (an enlarged view of region A of  FIG. 2 ), the array substrate further comprises a plurality of pixel units  30  distributed in an array. 
     It is noted that in a display phase, the self-capacitance electrodes  10  can be used as common electrodes to implement display. However, in a touch phase, the self-capacitance electrodes  10  can be instead reused as touch electrodes to implement touch control. A position where each self-capacitance electrode  10  is located can be referred as a touch block “Touch”. The touch block “Touch” is usually square, and thus the self-capacitance electrode  10  is also generally square. 
     If the self-capacitance electrode  10  is square, a self-capacitance electrode  10  for example corresponds to a position of M×M pixel units  30 . Each pixel unit  30  can comprise at least three sub-pixels  301  having different colors, for example, red (R), green (G) and blue (B) sub-pixels  301 . Or, each pixel unit  30  can comprise a red sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel and a white sub-pixel. A region where each sub-pixel  301  is located can be defined by a gate line “Gate” and a data line “Data” which are crisscrossing. 
     In this case, as shown in  FIG. 2 , an electrode column  100  is comprised of N self-capacitance electrodes  10  located in a same column, each electrode column  100  corresponding to M columns of pixel units  30 , and the N self-capacitance electrodes  10  located in the same column are connected with the drive circuit  20  via N touch leads  11  arranged within different columns of pixel units  30 . M and N are positive integers and M&gt;N&gt;&gt;1. Moreover, M-N columns of pixel units  30  from M columns of pixel units  30  that are provided with no touch leads  11  are provided with dummy leads  12 . The dummy leads  12  are connected with the drive circuit  20 , and the drive circuit  20  is used to input a common voltage signal (Vcom) into the dummy leads  12  and the touch leads  11 . 
     For example, for a display device with a resolution of 1280×720, a layout of the touch blocks “Touch” is shown in  FIG. 4 . 18 touch blocks “Touch” is comprised in each row, and 32 touch blocks “Touch” are comprised in each column, and each touch block “Touch” corresponds to 40×40 pixel units  30 . Since a touch block “Touch” corresponds to a self-capacitance electrode  10 , 32 self-capacitance electrodes  10  is comprised in an electrode column  100  in  FIG. 2 , and the electrode column  100  corresponds to 40 columns of pixel units  30 . Therefore, the 32 self-capacitance electrodes  10  in the electrode column  100  can be connected with the drive electrode  20  via 32 touch leads  11  arranged within different columns of pixel units  30 . 
     In this case, among the 40 columns of pixel units  30  corresponding to the position of the electrode column  100 , there are 8 columns (40−32=8) of pixel units  30  provided with no touch leads  11 . Therefore, pixel units  30  provided with the touch leads  11  can be provided with dummy leads  12 . In order to have the dummy leads  12  distributed on the array substrate uniformly, a number of the pixel units  30  between any two adjacent dummy leads  12  can be a fixed constant. For example, for a solution in which the position of the electrode column  100  corresponds to 40 columns of pixel units  30 , 4 pixel units  30  can be spaced between two adjacent dummy leads  12 , as shown in  FIG. 5 . 
     To sum up, by providing dummy leads in M-N columns of pixel units provided with no touch leads, the drive circuit can input a same common voltage signal to the dummy leads as to the touch leads, such that parasitic capacitances generated between the dummy leads and the gate lines are the same as those generated between the touch leads and the gate lines. In this case, both of pixel units provided with touch leads and those provided with no touch leads can be affected by the same parasitic capacitances. As a result, under the control of a same data voltage, a display grayscale difference between the pixel units can be reduced, thus improving the display effect. 
     Furthermore, by arranging the touch leads  11  within the pixel units  30 , touch blind regions caused by arrangement of the touch leads  11  between two adjacent touch blocks can be avoided. Also, since there may be not enough wiring space reserved between two adjacent touch blocks, dummy leads  12  are be arranged within the pixel units  30  even if they are not required to be connected with the self-capacitance electrodes  10 . 
     if a pixel unit  30  comprises blue (B), red (R) and green (G) sub-pixels  301 , since human eyes are less sensitive to blue, according to a further embodiment, the touch leads  11  and/or the dummy leads  12  can be arranged within the blue (B) sub-pixels  301 . In this way, the influence on the display effect by the arrangement of the touch leads  11  and/or the dummy leads  12  within the pixel units  30  can be reduced. 
     Furthermore, as shown in  FIG. 2 , the touch leads  11  can be connected with the self-capacitance electrodes  10  through vias  14 . If touch leads  11  started at positions of the vias  14  are manufactured, it may result in that the touch leads  11  are densely distributed in some regions of the array substrate while sparsely in others, thus leading to display nonuniformity easily. Therefore, according to a further embodiment, as shown in  FIG. 6 , each touch lead  11  passes through all pixel units  30  located in a same column, and/or each dummy lead  12  passes through all pixel units  30  located in a same column. As such, the touch leads  11  and the dummy leads  12  can be distributed on the entire array substrate uniformly so as to reduce the display differences. 
     The specific structures of the touch leads  11  and the dummy leads  12  are illustrated in detail below by way of example. 
     An end of a touch lead  11  can be connected with a self-capacitance electrode  10  through a via  14 , and the other end of the touch lead  11  is connected with the drive circuit  20 . Therefore, the common voltage signal (Vcom) outputted by the drive circuit  20  can be outputted to the self-capacitance electrode  10  via the touch lead  11 , and the self-capacitance electrode  10  can be thus charged such that it can act as an electrode of a liquid crystal capacitor during the display phase. Furthermore, the self-capacitance electrode  10  can act as an electrode of a self-capacitor during the touch phase. Therefore, if the touch lead  11  has a large resistance, in order to ensure that the voltage signal received by the self-capacitance electrode  10  remains unchanged, it is necessary to increase a load of the drive circuit  20  accordingly, which will increase power consumption of driving. 
     As a result, in order to decrease the power consumption of the drive circuit  20 , as shown in  FIG. 7  (a sectional view of  FIG. 5  obtained along line O-O), the touch leads  11  can comprise two layers of metal wires. Specifically, the touch lead  11  can comprise a first sub-lead  111  and a second sub-lead  112  which are located in different layers and arranged to overlap each other. The first sub-lead  111  is connected with the second sub-lead  112  through a via. The first sub-lead  111  can be connected with the self-capacitance electrode  10  through the via  14 . In this way, the first sub-lead  111  can be in parallel with the second sub-lead  112 , which can reduce the resistance of the touch lead  11 , thereby decreasing the power consumption of the drive circuit  20 . 
     Furthermore, in order to simplify the manufacturing process, the second sub-lead  112  can be arranged in a same layer and made of a same material as the data line “Data” on the array substrate. In this way, the second sub-lead  112  can be manufactured during manufacture of the data line “Data”. In this case, the material for forming the second sub-lead  112  can be referred as Source Data Touch (SDT). The first sub-lead  111  can be formed of a same material as the data line “Data”, or of other conductive metal materials. Therefore, the material for forming the first sub-lead  111  can be referred as Touch Panel Metal (TPM). 
     For a lead comprising a first sub-lead and a second sub-lead, if the second sub-lead is arranged in a same layer as the data line “Data”, there may result in a short circuit between the second sub-lead and a data line “Data” adjacent thereto during manufacture of the second sub-lead. The voltage of the shorted data line “Data” will be pulled low to a common voltage of the second sub-lead such that during the display, a data voltage cannot be inputted into the sub-pixels  301  provided with the shorted data line “Data” via the data line “Data”. As a result, the sub-pixels  301  cannot be displayed normally, which leads to square display defects. 
     In order to reduce the probability of the square display defects, as shown in  FIG. 8  (a sectional view of  FIG. 5  obtained along line O′-O′), a dummy lead  12  can be formed of only a single layer of metal wires. To simply the manufacture process, the dummy lead  12  can be arranged in a same layer as a first sub-lead  111 . 
     In this way, since the dummy lead  12  do not comprise a second sub-lead, i.e., it is unnecessary to provide a second sub-lead in a same layer as the data line “Data”, it can be ensured that data lines “Data” in the sub-pixels  301  provided with the dummy leads  12  will not be shorted, which can reduced about 20% of the square display defects. Moreover, since the dummy lead  12  does not need to be connected with the self-capacitance electrode  10  and it is only used to receive the common voltage signal (Vcom) outputted by the drive circuit  20  without serving as a signal transmission path that the drive circuit  20  is used to actuate loads, the power consumption of the drive circuit  20  will not be increased even if a single layer of metal wires is used. 
     Furthermore, during the touch process, finger pressing is required for changing the self-capacitance formed between a self-capacitance electrode  10  and a grounding end GND and a touch position is determined according to the coordinates of the self-capacitance electrode  10  where the change took place, so in order to improve a touch sensitivity, the self-capacitance electrode  10  should be arranged on a side close to the fingers to the greatest extent. Therefore, as shown in  FIG. 5 , if the pixel unit  30  comprises sub-pixels  301  and as shown in  FIG. 7  or  FIG. 8 , pixel electrodes  13  are provided in the sub-pixels  301 , the common electrode layer comprising a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes  10  is located above the pixel electrodes  13 . That is, relative to the pixel electrodes  13 , the self-capacitance electrodes  10  are far away from the base substrate  01 . 
     In this case, the first sub-leads  111  are located above the second sub-leads  112 . The self-capacitance electrodes  10  are connected with the first sub-leads  111  through vias so as to implement connection of the touch leads  11  with the self-capacitance electrodes  10 . 
     When the common electrode layer and the pixel electrodes are both arranged on the array substrate, the array substrate can be used for forming an advanced-super dimensional switching (ADS for short) display device. In this case, as shown in  FIG. 9 , the pixel electrodes  13  are in a block shape, and the self-capacitance electrodes  10  comprised in the common electrode layer have a strip-shaped slit pattern at positions corresponding to the pixel electrodes  13 . Therefore, a multidimensional electric field can be formed from both a parallel electric field generated at edges of pixel electrodes in a same plane and a longitudinal electric field generated between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode layer, such that liquid crystal molecules with all orientations located between and right above the pixel electrodes within a liquid crystal cell can be rotated and converted, thus improving the operation efficiency of liquid crystals in a planar orientation system and the light transmission efficiency. 
     The embodiments of the present invention further provide a touch display device, which can comprise any array substrate mentioned above. Since the structure of the array substrate has been described in detail in the above embodiments, no more descriptions shall be given herein for simplicity. 
     It is noted that in the embodiments of the present invention, the display device can for example comprise a liquid crystal display device. For instance, the display device can be any product or component having a display function, such as a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal television, a digital photo frame, a phone or a tablet computer. 
     The embodiments of the present invention further provide a method for manufacturing any of the array substrates as mentioned above, comprising: manufacturing a drive circuit. Furthermore, as shown in  FIG. 10 , the method can further comprise the following steps. 
     S 101 , gate lines are formed on a base substrate. For example, a gate metal layer is formed on the base substrate  01  as shown in  FIG. 7  or  FIG. 8 , and gate lines “Gate” are formed through a patterning process. Furthermore, a gate G of a thin film transistor (TFT) can also be formed during formation of the gate lines. 
     It is noted that in the embodiments of the present invention, the patterning process can comprise a photolithography process, or a photolithography process and an etch step. In addition, the patterning process can also comprise other processes for forming predetermined patterns, such as printing or ink jetting. The photolithography process can refer to a process for forming patterns by using a photoresist, a mask plate, an exposure device and so on, and comprises process procedures such as film-forming, exposing and developing. A corresponding patterning process can be selected based on the structure to be formed in the embodiments of the present invention. 
     S 102 , data lines and second sub-leads are formed on the base substrate on which the gate lines have been formed. For example, a data metal layer is formed on the base substrate  01  on which the gate lines have been formed, and the data lines “Data” and the second sub-leads  112  are formed through a patterning process. 
     During formation of the data lines “Data” and the second sub-leads  112 , a source S and a drain D of the TFT can also be formed. 
     S 103 , a first insulating layer  15  is formed on the base substrate on which the data lines “Data” and the second sub-leads  112  have been formed. 
     The material for forming the first insulating layer  15  can comprise silicon nitride. Or, in order to reduce power consumption of display, the first insulating layer  15  can be formed by using a resin material with a low dielectric constant. 
     S 104 , vias are formed at positions of the first insulating layer  15  corresponding to the second sub-leads  112 . 
     S 105 , dummy lines are formed on the base substrate on which the first insulating layer has been formed, and first sub-leads are formed at the positions corresponding to the second sub-leads. The first sub-leads are connected with the second sub-leads through vias to form touch leads, and the dummy leads and the touch leads are both connected with the drive circuit. 
     For example, a further data metal layer is formed on the base substrate on which the first insulating layer  15  has been formed. The dummy leads  12  as shown in  FIG. 8  are formed through a patterning process, and as shown in  FIG. 7 , the first sub-leads  111  are formed at positions corresponding to the second sub-leads  112 . The first sub-leads  111  are connected with the second sub-leads  112  through the vias formed in step S 104 , thereby forming the touch leads  11 . To simplify the process, the first sub-leads  111  can be also arranged in a same layer and made of a same material as the dummy leads  12 . 
     The formed dummy leads  12  and the touch leads  11  are both connected with the drive circuit  20  and used for receiving the common voltage signal (Vcom) outputted by the drive circuit  20 . 
     S 106 , a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes  10  distributed in an array are formed on the base substrate  01  on which the dummy leads  12  and the touch leads  11  have been formed. For example, N self-capacitance electrodes  10  form an electrode column  100 . 
     According to a further embodiment, the method further comprises: after step S 105  and prior to step S 106 , forming a second insulating layer on the base substrate on which the dummy leads and the touch leads have been formed, and forming further vias at positions of the second insulating layer corresponding to the first sub-leads. The self-capacitance electrodes can be connected with the touch leads through the further vias. 
     For example, a second insulating layer  16  is formed on the base substrate  01  on which the touch leads  11  and the dummy leads  12  have been formed, and then further vias are formed at positions of the second insulating layer  16  corresponding to the first sub-leads  111  such that the self-capacitance electrodes  10  formed in step S 106  can be connected with the touch leads  11  comprising the first sub-leads  111  and the second sub-leads  112  through the further vias (as shown in  FIG. 7 ). The second insulating layer  16  can be made of a same material as the first insulating layer  15 . 
     In contrast, the dummy lead  12  do not need to be connected with the self-capacitance electrode  10 , and thus it is unnecessary to manufacture a via at a position of the second insulating layer  16  corresponding to the dummy lead  12  as shown in  FIG. 8 . 
     On one hand, by providing dummy leads in M-N columns of pixel units provided with no touch leads, the driving circuit can input a same common voltage signal to the dummy leads as to the touch leads, such that the parasitic capacitance generated between the dummy leads and the gate lines is the same as that generated between the touch leads and the gate lines. In this case, both of pixel units provided with touch leads and those provided with no touch leads can be affected by the same parasitic capacitance. As a result, under the control of a same data voltage, the display grayscale difference between the pixel units can be reduced, thus improving the display effect. On the other hand, if the touch leads comprise first sub-leads and second sub-leads connected through vias, the resistances of the touch leads can be decreased, thus reducing the power consumption of the drive circuit. If the second sub-leads in the touch leads are arranged in a same layer and made of a same material as the data lines on the array substrate, the second sub-leads can be manufactured during the manufacture of the data lines, which simplifies the manufacture process. If the dummy leads are arranged in a same layer as the first sub-leads, not only can the process be simplified, but also short circuits of the data lines in the sub-pixels provided with the dummy leads can be avoided, which can reduce the square display defects. Moreover, since the dummy leads do not need to be connected with the self-capacitance electrodes and are only used for receiving the common voltage signal outputted by the drive circuit without serving as a signal transmission path that the drive circuit is used to actuate loads, the power consumption of the drive circuit will not be increased even if a single layer of metal wires is used to form the dummy leads. 
     The forgoing is only specific embodiments of the present invention, but the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto. Any variation or substitute easily conceivable by a skilled person familiar with this art within the technical scope of the present invention shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be limited by the protection scope of the appended claims.