Division mask with clamping portion

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10741763-B2
Application number	US-201715672662-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 9, 2017
Priority date	Sep 6, 2016
Publication date	Aug 11, 2020
Grant date	Aug 11, 2020

Abstract

A division mask includes a main body including at least one opening pattern, and a clamping portion at an edge of the main body, the clamping portion having an increasing width with respect to an increasing distance from the main body, and the clamping portion including a fan-out portion extending from the main body and including at least one dummy pattern, and at least one branch portion having a decreasing width with respect to an increasing distance from the fan-out portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A division mask for a frame, comprising: a main body including at least one opening pattern; a clamping portion extending from an edge of the main body in a first direction; and
a joint portion between the main body and the clamping portion, the joint portion being welded to the frame, and
the clamping portion having an increasing width with respect to an increasing distance from the main body, and the clamping portion includes:
a fan-out portion extending from the main body and including at least one dummy pattern, the at least one dummy pattern being only in the clamping portion among the clamping portion and the main body, and
at least one branch portion extending from the fan-out portion and having a decreasing width with respect to an increasing distance from the fan-out portion, the fan-out portion being between the main body and the at least one branch portion,
wherein a width in a second direction of an outermost tip of the at least one branch portion is smaller than at any other width of the clamping portion in the second direction, and the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction, and wherein a side of the clamping portion extends in a first direction continuously in a single straight line from the joint portion to the at least one branch portion.

2. The division mask as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one branch portion includes an end portion having an outer lateral side surface parallel to an outer side lateral surface of the main body, the outer lateral side surface of the end portion being perpendicular to the outermost tip of the at least one branch portion.

3. The division mask as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one branch portion includes a first branch portion and a second branch portion.

4. The division mask as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the first branch portion is bilaterally symmetrical with the second branch portion.

5. The division mask as claimed in claim 3 , wherein a width in the second direction between an inner side end of the first branch portion and an inner side end of the second branch portion is larger than a width in the second direction of the main body.

6. The division mask as claimed in claim 3 , wherein each of the first branch portion and the second branch portion has an angle of 135° to 180° with respect to the main body.

7. The division mask as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one dummy pattern has a same shape as a shape of the opening pattern.

8. The division mask as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the main body and the clamping portion include a metal.

9. The division mask as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the joint portion is between the at least one opening pattern and the at least one dummy pattern.

10. The division mask as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the fan-out portion of the clamping portion is directly connected to the joint portion, the fan-out portion having a trapezoidal cross section in plan view.

11. The division mask as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the fan-out portion has a trapezoidal cross section in plan view, a shorter base of the trapezoidal cross section being connected to the main body.

12. A division mask for a frame, comprising:
a main body including at least one opening pattern, the main body extending along a first direction; and
clamping portions at opposite ends of the main body in the first direction, the clamping portions including dummy patterns, the dummy patterns being only in the clamping portions among the clamping portions and the main body,
wherein the main body includes a central portion at a center of the main body between the opposite ends in the first direction, the main body having an increasing width in a direction oriented from the central portion toward the opposite ends, and
wherein the width of the main body extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the width of the main body increases continuously along the first direction from the central portion to the opposite ends at the respective clamping portions when the division mask is unattached to the frame.

13. The division mask as claimed in claim 12 , wherein each clamping portion includes a first branch portion and a second branch portion.

14. The division mask as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the first branch portion is bilaterally symmetrical with the second branch portion.

15. The division mask as claimed in claim 14 , wherein each of the first branch portion and the second branch portion has an outer lateral surface colinear with a respective lateral surface of the main body.

16. The division mask as claimed in claim 7 , wherein a size of the at least one dummy pattern is a same size as a size of the at least one opening pattern.

17. The division mask as claimed in claim 16 , wherein a length of the fan-out portion along a longitudinal direction of the main body is longer than a length of the at least one dummy pattern along the longitudinal direction of the main body.

18. The division mask as claimed in claim 16 , wherein each of the at least one opening pattern and the at least one dummy pattern includes a plurality of fine opening patterns, each of the plurality of fine opening patterns having a shape corresponding to a thin film shape to be deposited on a substrate.

19. The division mask as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the at least one opening pattern in the main body includes a plurality of opening patterns, the plurality of opening patterns being spaced apart from each other along a longitudinal direction of the main body, and
the at least one dummy pattern is spaced apart from the plurality of opening patterns along the longitudinal direction of the main body to be only in the clamping portion among the clamping portion and the main body.

20. The division mask as claimed in claim 12 , wherein:
the at least one opening pattern in the main body includes a plurality of opening patterns, the plurality of opening patterns being spaced apart from each other along a longitudinal direction of the main body, and
each clamping portion of the clamping portions includes a single dummy pattern, the single dummy pattern being spaced apart from the plurality of opening patterns along the longitudinal direction of the main body.

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Baek Daewon
• Kim Jongbum

Classifications

• H10K71/166 Primary

  using selective deposition, e.g. using a mask · CPC title

• C23C14/042 Primary

  using masks · CPC title

• H10K71/00

  Manufacture or treatment specially adapted for the organic devices covered by this subclass · CPC title

• H05B33/10

  Apparatus or processes specially adapted to the manufacture of electroluminescent light sources · CPC title

• B05C21/005

  Masking devices (stencils B05C17/06; masking devices for which the means for applying liquids or other fluent material is spraying or is not important B05B12/20) · CPC title