Display device

• US 10,608,062 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2017
• Issued: 03/31/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Jumpei, Hirase, Takeshi, Ochi, Hisao, Ochi, Takashi, Senoo, Tohru, Sonoda, Tohru, Matsui, Akihiro, Miyamoto, Yoshinobu
• Primary Examiner(s): Tornow, Mark W
• Application Number:
  US16/066,084
• Publication Number:
  US 20190363146A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,111 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/30 in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements panels comprising a number of electrodes in a single cell controlling light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. electro-optical or magneto-optical cell, G02F1/00
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/04 Sealing arrangements , e.g. against humidity
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/10 Apparatus or processes specially adapted to the manufacture of electroluminescent light sources
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/12 Light sources with substantially two-dimensional radiating surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/22 characterised by the chemical or physical composition or the arrangement of auxiliary dielectric or reflective layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2102/311 Flexible OLED
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/8423 Metallic sealing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/1213 the pixel elements being TFTs
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/122 Pixel-defining structures or layers, e.g. banks
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/8722 Peripheral sealing arrangements, e.g. adhesives, sealants
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/873 Encapsulations
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 77/111 Flexible substrates
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/549 Organic PV cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 70/50 Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product

Abstract

A bank (BK1b) and a bank (BK1a) having a height less than a height of the bank (BK1b) are intermittently provided on a bank (BK1) covering a peripheral portion of each first electrode (21) of a light emitting element.

Claims

1. A display device including a display region provided with a plurality of pixels including a plurality of sub pixels, the display device comprising:

a plurality of light emitting elements each including a first electrode, a functional layer including a light emitting layer and a second electrode layered one on another in this order, with at least the first electrode being provided for each of the sub pixels;

a first bank configured to cover a peripheral portion of the first electrode; and

a sealing film including a first inorganic layer, an organic layer and a second inorganic layer layered one on another in this order from the second electrode side, and being configured to seal the plurality of light emitting elements,

wherein the first bank is intermittently provided with a first high bank part and a first low bank part having a height less than a height of the first high bank part,

a second bank covered with the sealing film and surrounding the display region is provided outside of the display region, and

the second bank includes a second high bank part having a height greater than the height of the first low bank part, and

density of the second high bank part per area corresponding to one pixel in a mounting region of the second bank is higher than density of the first high bank part per pixel in the display region serving as a mounting region of the first bank.

2. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the first inorganic layer is provided with irregularities derived from the first high bank part and the first low bank part.

3. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the high bank part includes a step shaped bank part including a plurality of steps.

4. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein density of the second bank per area corresponding to one pixel in a mounting region of the second bank is higher than density of the first bank per pixel in the display region serving as a mounting region of the first bank.

5. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the second bank entirely includes the second high bank part.

6. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the second high bank part includes a second step shaped bank part including a plurality of steps.

7. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the second bank includes a plurality of columns of a plurality of dot shaped banks disposed in a multiple-frame shape, and dot shaped banks in columns adjacent to each other are alternately disposed.

8. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the second bank includes a plurality of frame shaped banks formed in continuous line.

9. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein a third bank surrounding the second bank is provided outside of the display region,

the third bank includes a third high bank part having a height greater than the height of the first low bank part, and

density of the third high bank part per area corresponding to one pixel in a mounting region of the third bank is higher than density of the first high bank part per pixel in the display region serving as a mounting region of the first bank.

10. The display device according to claim 9,

wherein density of the third bank part per area corresponding to one pixel in a mounting region of the third bank is higher than density of the first bank part per pixel in the display region serving as a mounting region of the first bank.

11. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein a third bank surrounding the second bank is provided outside of the display region,

the third bank includes a third high bank part having a height greater than the height of the first low bank part, and

a pitch between the third high bank parts adjacent to each other is less than a pitch between the first high bank parts adjacent to each other.

12. The display device according to claim 9,

wherein the third bank includes a plurality of columns of frame shaped banks including a plurality of dot shaped banks, and dot shaped banks in columns adjacent to each other are alternately disposed.

13. A display device including a display region provided with a plurality of pixels including a plurality of sub pixels, the display device comprising:

a plurality of light emitting elements each including a first electrode, a functional layer including a light emitting layer and a second electrode layered one on another in this order, with at least the first electrode being provided for each of the sub pixels;

a first bank configured to cover a peripheral portion of the first electrode; and

a sealing film including a first inorganic layer, an organic layer and a second inorganic layer layered one on another in this order from the second electrode side, and being configured to seal the plurality of light emitting elements,

wherein the first bank includes a first step shaped bank part including a plurality of steps,

the functional layer and the second electrode are located below a lower step of the first step shaped bank part between the first step shaped bank part and a bank part adjacent to the first step shaped bank part in the first bank,

the first inorganic layer is provided with irregularities derived from the plurality of steps of the first step shaped bank part,

the first step shaped bank includes a lower step bank and an upper step bank layered on the lower step bank, and

a plurality of columns of the upper step banks is provided on the lower step bank.

14. The display device according to claim 13,

wherein the first step shaped bank part includes a layered structure including a plurality of resin layers differing in a development speed and layered one on another.

15. The display device according to claim 13,

wherein the first bank includes a first low bank part including a single-step bank part having no step shape and having a height less than a height of the first step shaped bank part, and

the first bank is intermittently provided with a first high bank part including the first step shaped bank part, and the first low bank part.

16. The display device according to claim 13,

wherein the first bank entirely includes the first step shaped bank part.

17. The display device according to claim 13,

wherein the upper step bank is provided with a slit configured for partition of the upper step bank in a direction orthogonal to the upper step bank, between sub pixels adjacent to each other.

18. A display device including a display region provided with a plurality of pixels including a plurality of sub pixels, the display device comprising:

a plurality of light emitting elements each including a first electrode, a functional layer including a light emitting layer and a second electrode layered one on another in this order, with at least the first electrode being provided for each of the sub pixels;

a first bank configured to cover a peripheral portion of the first electrode; and

a sealing film including a first inorganic layer, an organic layer and a second inorganic layer layered one on another in this order from the second electrode side, and being configured to seal the plurality of light emitting elements,

wherein the first bank is intermittently provided with a first high bank part and a first low bank part having a height less than a height of the first high bank part

a second bank covered with the sealing film and surrounding the display region is provided outside of the display region, and

the second bank includes a second high bank part having a height greater than the height of the first low bank part, and

a pitch between the second high bank parts adjacent to each other is less than a pitch between the first high bank parts adjacent to each other.

19. The display device according to claim 18,

wherein the second bank includes a plurality of columns of a plurality of dot shaped banks disposed in a multiple-frame shape, and dot shaped banks in columns adjacent to each other are alternately disposed.

20. The display device according to claim 18,

wherein the second bank includes a plurality of frame shaped banks formed in continuous line.