Display with power supply mesh

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10700151-B2
Application number	US-201916240552-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 4, 2019
Priority date	Sep 23, 2016
Publication date	Jun 30, 2020
Grant date	Jun 30, 2020

Abstract

An organic light-emitting diode display may have an array of pixels. The pixels may each have an organic light-emitting diode with a respective anode and may be formed from thin-film transistor circuitry formed on a substrate. A mesh-shaped path may be used to distribute a power supply voltage to the thin-film circuitry. The mesh-shaped path may have intersecting horizontally extending lines and vertically extending lines. The horizontally extending lines may be zigzag metal lines that do not overlap the anodes. The vertically extending lines may be straight vertical metal lines that overlap the anodes. The pixels may include pixels of different colors. Angularly dependent shifts in display color may be minimized by ensuring that the anodes of the differently colored pixels overlap the vertically extending lines by similar amounts.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display, comprising:
a substrate;
an array of pixels on the substrate, each pixel being configured to receive a power supply voltage and each pixel having a light-emitting diode with an anode;
first and second polymer layers; and
a mesh-shaped power supply distribution path between the first and second polymer layers that distributes the power supply voltage to the array of pixels, wherein each anode is characterized by a respective overlap area with the mesh-shaped power supply distribution path, wherein the overlap area for each anode is less than 50% of the area of that anode, and wherein the overlap areas of the pixels differ by less than 30%.

2. The display defined in claim 1 , wherein the pixels include pixels of different colors and wherein the overlap areas of the pixels of different colors differ by less than 10%.

3. The display defined in claim 1 , wherein the mesh-shaped power supply distribution path includes intersecting horizontally extending metal lines and vertically extending metal lines.

4. The display defined in claim 3 , wherein the anodes overlap the vertically extending metal lines and do not overlap the horizontally extending metal lines.

5. The display defined in claim 4 , wherein the vertically extending metal lines are vertically extending straight metal lines.

6. The display defined in claim 5 , wherein the horizontally extending metal lines include diagonal line segments that extend at non-zero angles with respect to the vertically extending straight metal lines.

7. The display defined in claim 6 , wherein the anodes are formed from diamond-shaped metal areas and wherein each of the diagonal line segments extends between opposing diagonal edges of a pair of the diamond-shaped metal areas.

8. The display defined in claim 1 , wherein each anode overlaps at least some of the mesh-shaped power supply distribution path.

9. A display, comprising:
a substrate;
an array of pixels on the substrate, each pixel being configured to receive a power supply voltage and each pixel having a light-emitting diode with an anode;
a planarization layer on which the anodes are formed; and
a mesh-shaped power supply distribution path, wherein the mesh-shaped power supply distribution path includes first metal lines and second metal lines that intersect the first metal lines, wherein the anodes overlap the first metal lines, and wherein the anodes do not overlap the second metal lines.

10. The display defined in claim 9 , wherein the first metal lines extend in a first direction and wherein the second metal lines include first portions that extend in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction.

11. The display defined in claim 10 , wherein the second metal lines include second portions that extend in a third direction that is different than the first and second directions.

12. The display defined in claim 11 , wherein each anode has respective first and second opposing edges that are parallel to the second portions of the second metal lines.

13. The display defined in claim 11 , wherein each of the second portions of the second metal lines extends between a respective pair of adjacent anodes.

14. The display defined in claim 10 , wherein the second metal lines include second portions that extend at a non-zero angle with respect to the first metal lines and that extend at a non-zero angle with respect to the first portions of the second metal lines.

15. The display defined in claim 9 , wherein each anode is characterized by a respective overlap area with the mesh-shaped power supply distribution path and wherein the overlap area for each anode is greater than 0% and less than 50% of the area of that anode.

16. The display defined in claim 15 , wherein the overlap areas of the pixels differ by less than 30%.

17. The display defined in claim 15 , wherein the pixels include red pixels, green pixels, and blue pixels and wherein the overlap areas of the red pixels, green pixels, and blue pixels differ by less than 30%.

18. A display, comprising:
a substrate;
an array of pixels on the substrate, each pixel being configured to receive a power supply voltage and each pixel having a light-emitting diode with an anode;
a first polymer layer; and
a mesh-shaped power supply distribution path on the first polymer layer that distributes the power supply voltage to the array of pixels; and
a second polymer layer formed over the mesh-shaped power supply distribution path, wherein each anode is formed on the second polymer layer, wherein each anode is characterized by a respective overlap area with the mesh-shaped power supply distribution path, wherein the overlap area for each anode is greater than 0% and less than 50% of the area of that anode, and wherein the overlap areas of the pixels differ by less than 30%.

19. The display defined in claim 18 , wherein the mesh-shaped power supply distribution path is formed from zigzag metal lines that extend in a first direction and metal lines that extend in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

20. The display defined in claim 19 , wherein the anodes overlap the metal lines and do not overlap the zigzag metal lines.

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Rieutort-Louis Warren S
• Chang Ting-Kuo
• Chen Chieh-Wei
• Yu Cheng-Ho

Classifications

• G09G2320/0223

  Compensation for problems related to R-C delay and attenuation in electrodes of matrix panels, e.g. in gate electrodes or on-substrate video signal electrodes · CPC title

• H10K59/123

  Connection of the pixel electrodes to the thin film transistors [TFT] · CPC title

• H10K59/80515

  characterised by their shape · CPC title

• G09G3/3225 Primary

  using an active matrix · CPC title

• H10K59/131 Primary

  Interconnections, e.g. wiring lines or terminals · CPC title