Display device and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10254574-B2
Application number	US-201715820564-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2017
Priority date	Dec 5, 2016
Publication date	Apr 9, 2019
Grant date	Apr 9, 2019

Abstract

Provided is a display device having a flexible substrate including an active region and a wiring region. The active region possesses a plurality of pixels each including a display element. The wiring region has a plurality of terminals, and a plurality of wirings extends from the active region to the plurality of terminals. An insulating film included in the active region and extending from the active region has a sidewall between an edge of the flexible substrate and the wiring adjacent to the edge in the wiring region. The sidewall has a curved portion on a plane in which the plurality of wirings is arranged, and a distance between the edge and the curved portion is curvedly varied.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display device comprising:
a flexible substrate including:
an active region comprising a plurality of pixels each including a display element; and
a wiring region comprising:
a plurality of terminals; and
a plurality of wirings extending from the active region to the plurality of terminals,

wherein, in the wiring region, an insulating film included in the active region and extending from the active region has a sidewall between an edge of the flexible substrate and the wiring adjacent to the edge,
the sidewall has a curved portion on a plane in which the plurality of wirings is arranged, and
a distance between the edge and the curved portion curvedly varies.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the distance varies so that a plot of the distance against a position on the edge is expressed with a curve.

3. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the distance is a length of a normal line of the edge in the plane from the edge to the sidewall.

4. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the insulating film includes an inorganic compound.

5. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the insulating film includes an organic compound.

6. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the curved portion forms a part of a circumference in the plane.

7. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising a resin film over the plurality of wirings, wherein the flexible substrate is in contact with the resin film in a region between the edge and the curved portion.

8. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a first base film under the active region; and
a second base film under the wiring region,
wherein the curved portion intersects at least one of an edge of the first base film and an edge of the second base film.

9. The display device according to claim 8 , wherein the plurality of wirings has a zig-zag structure in a region between the first base film and the second base film.

10. The display device according to claim 8 ,
wherein the plurality of wirings has a curved shape in the plane, and
the curved shape intersects at least the edge of the first base film and the edge of the second base film.

11. A display device comprising:
a flexible substrate including an active region and a wiring region,
wherein the active region comprises:
an undercoat over the flexible substrate;
a semiconductor film, a gate, and a gate insulating film sandwiched by the semiconductor film and the gate over the undercoat;
an interlayer film over the semiconductor film, the gate, and the gate insulating film; and
a source and a drain electrically connected to the semiconductor film,

the wiring region comprises:
a terminal over the flexible substrate; and
a wiring located over the flexible substrate and

electrically connecting the active region to the terminal,
a sidewall of at least one of the undercoat, the gate insulating film, and the interlayer film is located between an edge of the flexible substrate and the wiring in the wiring region,
the sidewall has a curved portion on a plane in which the wiring is arranged, and
a distance between the edge and the curved portion curvedly varies.

12. The display device according to claim 11 , wherein a distance between the edge and the sidewall varies so that a plot of the distance against a position on the edge is expressed with a curve.

13. The display device according to claim 11 , wherein the distance is a length of a normal line of the edge in the plane from the edge to the sidewall.

14. The display device according to claim 11 , wherein the curved portion forms a part of a circumference in the plane.

15. The display device according to claim 11 , further comprising a resin film over the wiring, wherein the flexible substrate is in contact with the resin film in a region between the edge and the sidewall.

16. The display device according to claim 11 , further comprising:
a first base film under the active region; and
a second base film under the wiring region,
wherein the curved portion intersects at least one of an edge of the first base film and an edge of the second base film.

17. The display device according to claim 16 , wherein the wiring has a zig-zag structure in a region between the first base film and the second base film.

18. The display device according to claim 16 ,
wherein the wiring has a curved shape in the plane, and
the curved shape intersects at least one of the edge of the first base film and the edge of the second base film.

Assignees

• Japan Display Inc

Inventors

• Tokuda Naoki

Classifications

• H05B33/04

  Sealing arrangements {, e.g. against humidity} · CPC title

• G02F1/133308

  Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels · CPC title

• G06F1/1652

  the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable · CPC title

• H01L27/3258

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H05B33/0806

  Electricity · mapped topic