Array substrate, testing method, display panel and display apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10134316-B2
Application number	US-201615004843-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 22, 2016
Priority date	Apr 1, 2015
Publication date	Nov 20, 2018
Grant date	Nov 20, 2018

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a testing method, a display panel and a display apparatus. The array substrate includes: multiple gate wires and data wires intersecting with each other to divide multiple sub-pixel regions, where the sub-pixels corresponding to each of the data wires form a column of the sub-pixels, and M neighboring columns of the sub-pixels form a sub-pixel group; multiple switch units, where a first end of each of the switch units is electrically connected to one of the data wires; and multiple testing ends, each of which is electrically connected to second ends of the switch units. In such configuration, at least two switch units are electrically connected to the data wires corresponding to i th columns of the sub-pixels in at least two alternately arranged sub-pixel groups, respectively. Accordingly, impacts to voltage of common electrodes may be avoided and testing effect may be improved.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An array substrate, comprising:
a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in rows and columns of a matrix form, wherein the plurality of sub-pixels each is associated with one of four colors: red, green, blue and white;
a plurality of gate wires arranged in row direction, wherein the plurality of gate wires each is electrically connected to an associated sub-pixel row of the plurality of sub-pixels; a plurality of data wires arranged in column direction, wherein the plurality of data wires each is electrically connected to an associated sub-pixel column of the plurality of sub-pixels;
a control end providing a control signal;
a plurality of testing ends providing testing signals; and a plurality of switch units each associated with one sub-pixel column, and each comprising a first end, a second end and a control end, wherein the first end of each switch unit is electrically connected to the associated data wire, wherein the control end of each switch unit is electrically connected to the control signal from the control end;
wherein the plurality of sub-pixels is divided into K sub-pixel groups B k , each comprising M sub-pixel columns (B k1 , B k2 , . . . , B kM ), wherein K is an integer not less than 4, M is an integer not less than 2, and k takes each integer value in a range from 1 to K, inclusively, and wherein two sub-pixels of the plurality of sub-pixels in one row and from two adjacent columns are associated with two different of the four colors;
wherein the second ends of two switch units associated with two sub-pixel columns (B ji , B (j+2)i ) are electrically connected to a same testing end; and
wherein the second ends of two switch units associated with two sub-pixel columns (B ji , B (j+1)i ) are electrically connected to two different testing ends, wherein j takes each integer value in a range from 1 to K−2, inclusively, and i takes each integer value in a range from 1 to M, inclusively.

2. The array substrate according to claim 1 , wherein, M is an odd number, and wherein, testing signals supplied from the two testing ends corresponding to the two i th columns, which respectively belong to the j th group and the (j+1) th group, have opposite polarities.

3. The array substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of sub-pixels form 2×2 blocks each having four sub-pixels of the four colors, when M is 2.

4. The array substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of sub-pixels form 3×1 blocks each having three sub-pixels of three different of the four colors, when M is 3.

5. The array substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of switch units comprises switches with a same conductive type.

6. The array substrate according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a plurality of touch-control electrodes and a plurality of touch-control electrode lead wires, where the touch-control electrodes are formed by dividing common electrodes, and each of the touch-control electrode lead wires is electrically connected to one of the touch-control electrodes,
wherein a common voltage is supplied to the touch-control electrodes at a display stage, and a touch-control detecting signal is supplied to the touch-control electrodes at a touch-control stage.

7. The array substrate according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a substrate;
a first conductive layer formed on any surface of the substrate, wherein the first conductive layer comprises a gate;
a gate dielectric layer formed on the first conductive layer;
a semiconductor layer formed on the gate dielectric layer wherein the semiconductor layer comprises an active region; and
a second conductive layer containing the plurality of data wires formed on the semiconductor layer, wherein the second conductive layer comprises a source and a drain, and wherein the gate, the active region, the source and the drain form a thin-film transistor in each of the sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels.

8. A display panel, comprising the array substrate according to claim 1 .

9. A display apparatus, comprising the display panel according to claim 8 .

Assignees

• Shanghai Tianma Micro Elect Co
• Tianma Micro Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ma Conghua

Classifications

• G02F2203/69

  Arrangements or methods for testing or calibrating a device · CPC title

• H01L27/124

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/1222

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G09G3/006 Primary

  Electronic inspection or testing of displays and display drivers, e.g. of LED or LCD displays (testing individual LED's G01R31/2635; testing lamps G01R31/44; testing of optical features of LCD displays G02F1/1309) · CPC title

• G02F2001/136254

  Physics · mapped topic