DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20160085120A1
• Filed: 06/17/2015
• Published: 03/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Company Limited (BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Company Limited (BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Xu, Jun
• Application Number:
  US14/741,772
• Publication Number:
  US 20160085120A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13471 in which all the liquid crystal cells or layers remain transparent, e.g. FLC, ECB, DAP, HAN, TN, STN, SBE-LC cells G02F1/13475 takes precedence

Abstract

This disclosure relates to a display panel and a display device, said display panel comprising an array substrate, a color film substrate and a first liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the color film substrate, said display panel further comprising an electro-optic effect layer and an electrode layer disposed on one side or on both sides of the electro-optic effect layer; said electrode layer is used to generate an electric field in said electro-optic effect layer; said electro-optic effect layer is disposed on an outer side of the array substrate or on an outer side of the color film substrate, for causing birefringence of light rays to occur under the effect of said electric field when they pass through said electro-optic effect layer. Said display panel is capable of flexibly adjusting the color gamut displayed by the display panel within a larger range and has a lower cost.

Claims

1. A display panel, comprising an array substrate, a color film substrate and a first liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the color film substrate, wherein said display panel further comprises an electro-optic effect layer and an electrode layer disposed on one side or on both sides of the electro-optic effect layer;

said electrode layer is used to generate an electric field in said electro-optic effect layer;

said electro-optic effect layer is disposed on an outer side of the array substrate or on an outer side of the color film substrate, for causing the birefringence of light rays to occur under the effect of said electric field when they pass through said electro-optic effect layer.

2. The display panel according to claim 1, wherein said electro-optic effect layer is a film layer made of a crystal material having Kerr effect.

3. The display panel according to claim 2, wherein the crystal material having Kerr effect includes at least one of nitrobenzene and nitrotoluene.

4. The display panel according to claim 1, wherein said display panel further comprises a first substrate disposed at an outer side of the array substrate, and said electro-optic effect layer is a second liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the first substrate disposed at an outer side of the array substrate.

5. The display panel according to claim 1, wherein said display panel further comprises a first substrate disposed at an outer side of the color film substrate, and said electro-optic effect layer is a second liquid crystal layer disposed between the color film substrate and the first substrate disposed on an outer side of the color film substrate.

6. The display panel according to claim 1, wherein said electrode layer generates a plurality of electric fields in said electro-optic effect layer.

7. The display panel according to claim 6, wherein a number of electric fields generated by the electrode layer equals a number of sub-pixels of the display panel, each electric field corresponding to one sub-pixel.

8. The display panel according to claim 6, wherein the sub-pixels in each row of the display panel display a same color;

a number of the electric field equals a number of rows of the sub-pixels, each electric field corresponding to one row of sub-pixels.

9. The display panel according to claim 7, wherein the electric fields corresponding to multiple sub-pixels of one same color in the display panel have a consistent intensity.

10. The display panel according to claim 1, wherein said electrode layer generates one electric field in said electro-optic effect layer, wherein said electro-optic effect layer is wholly situated in said electric field.

11. The display panel according to claim 7, wherein said electrode layer comprises a first electrode positioned on one side of the electro-optic effect layer and a plurality of second electrodes positioned on the other side of the electro-optic effect layer, wherein a number of the second electrodes equals a number of the sub-pixels, each second electrode corresponding to one sub-pixel.

12. The display panel according to claim 7, wherein said electrode layer is situated on one side of the electro-optic effect layer, and comprises a plurality of electrode units composed of at least one first electrode and at least one second electrode, wherein a number of the electrode units equals a number of the sub-pixels, each electrode unit corresponding to one sub-pixel.

13. The display panel according to claim 12, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are in a strip form, and the first electrode and the second electrode within each electrode unit are arranged alternately in a region corresponding to a sub-pixel that corresponds to the electrode unit.

14. The display panel according to claim 8, wherein said electrode layer comprises a first electrode positioned on one side of the electro-optic effect layer, and a plurality of second electrodes positioned on the other side of the electro-optic effect layer, wherein a number of the second electrodes corresponds to a number of rows of the sub-pixels, each second electrode corresponding to one row of sub-pixels.

15. The display panel according to claim 8, wherein said electrode layer is situated on one side of the electro-optic effect layer, and comprises a plurality of electrode units composed of at least one first electrode and at least one second electrode, wherein a number of the electrode units equals a number of rows of the sub-pixels, each electrode unit corresponding to one sub-pixel.

16. The display panel according to claim 15, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are in a strip form, and the first electrode and the second electrode within each electrode unit are arranged alternately in a region corresponding to a row of sub-pixels that corresponds to the electrode unit.

17. The display panel according to claim 10, wherein said electrode layer comprises a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on respective sides of the electro-optic effect layer, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are in a plate form, the projections of the first electrode and the second electrode on the electro-optic effect layer corresponding to the electro-optic effect layer.

18. The display panel according to claim 10, wherein said electrode layer comprises a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes disposed on one side of the electro-optic effect layer, wherein the first electrodes and the second electrodes are in a strip form, and wherein the first electrodes and the second electrodes are arranged alternately.

19. A display device comprising a display panel according to claim 1.