Organic light emitting diode display panel having double retaining wall structure provided with at least a notch reducing its border width

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11209859-B2
Application number	US-201816464005-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 20, 2018
Priority date	Oct 23, 2018
Publication date	Dec 28, 2021
Grant date	Dec 28, 2021

Abstract

A narrow border organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel is provided, including a substrate, a light-emitting functional layer, a light-emitting functional layer having an organic sub-layer, an encapsulation layer, a first retaining wall, and a second retaining wall, wherein the first retaining wall is disposed around a circumferential periphery of the organic sub-layer; the second retaining wall is disposed between the first retaining wall and the organic sub-layer; wherein the second retaining wall is provided with at least a notch to reduce a border width of a side of the OLED display panel on which the notch is defined.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A narrow border organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel, comprising:
a substrate;
a light-emitting functional layer disposed on the substrate;
an encapsulation layer disposed on the light-emitting functional layer and comprising an organic sub-layer;
a first retaining wall for preventing an overflow of material for forming the organic sub-layer when the organic sub-layer is formed, the first retaining wall being disposed around a circumferential periphery of the organic sub-layer; and
a second retaining wall for preventing the overflow of the material for forming the organic sub-layer when the organic sub-layer is formed, the second retaining wall being disposed between the first retaining wall and the organic sub-layer;
wherein the second retaining wall is provided with at least a notch to reduce a border width of a side of the OLED display panel on which the notch is defined;
the second retaining wall comprising two second side walls disposed on two sides of the organic sub-layer and a second sub-wall connected to two ends of the two second side walls, the notch being defined and formed between the other two ends of the second side walls;
the first retaining wall comprising a first sub-wall located close to the notch;
the second side walls, the second sub-wall, and the first sub-wall being disposed around the circumferential periphery of the organic sub-layer;
the second side wall comprising a flow guiding section located close to the notch for guiding the overflowed organic material to flow between the first retaining wall and the second retaining wall, and a plurality of flow guiding channels each having a capillary function being defined in the flow guiding section.

2. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 1 , wherein each of the flow guiding channels is a flow guiding groove, and a depth of the flow guiding groove is less than or equal to a height of the second side wall.

3. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 2 , wherein a depth of the flow guiding groove gradually becomes shallower from an end close to the notch toward an end away from the notch.

4. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 2 , wherein a spacing between two adjacent flow guiding grooves gradually increases from the end close to the notch toward the end away from the notch.

5. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 1 , wherein each of the flow guiding channels is a flow guiding hole.

6. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 5 , wherein the density of the flow guiding holes gradually decreases from an end close to the notch toward an end away from the notch.

7. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 5 , wherein the density of the flow guiding holes gradually increases from a top end of the second side wall to a bottom end of the second side wall.

8. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the flow guiding channels comprise flow guiding grooves and flow guiding holes, and a depth of each of the guiding grooves is less than or equal to a height of the second side walls.

9. A narrow border organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel, comprising:
a substrate;
a light-emitting functional layer disposed on the substrate;
an encapsulation layer disposed on the light-emitting functional layer and comprising an organic sub-layer;
a first retaining wall for preventing an overflow of a material for forming the organic sub-layer when the organic sub-layer is formed, the first retaining wall being disposed around a circumferential periphery of the organic sub-layer; and
a second retaining wall for preventing the overflow of the material for forming the organic sub-layer when the organic sub-layer is formed, the second retaining wall being disposed between the first retaining wall and the organic sub-layer;
wherein the second retaining wall is provided with at least a notch to reduce a border width of a side of the OLED display panel on which the notch is defined.

10. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 9 , wherein the second retaining wall comprises the two second side walls disposed on the two sides of the organic sub-layer, the notch is defined and formed between two ends of the second side wall; the first retaining wall comprises two first sub-walls close to the corresponding notch; the two second side walls and the two first sub-walls are disposed around a peripheral side of the organic sub-layer.

11. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 10 , wherein the second side wall comprises a flow guiding section located close to the notch for guiding the overflowed organic material to flow between the first retaining wall and the second retaining wall, and a plurality of flow guiding channels each having a capillary function being defined in the flow guiding section.

12. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 11 , wherein each of the flow guiding channels is a flow guiding groove, and a depth of the flow guiding groove is less than or equal to a height of the second side wall.

13. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 11 , wherein the flow guiding channels comprise flow guiding grooves and the flow guiding holes, and a depth of each of the guiding grooves is less than or equal to a height of the second side walls.

14. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 13 , wherein the flow guiding hole is located below the guiding groove and is provided in a staggered manner with the guiding groove, a depth of the guiding groove gradually becomes shallower from the end close to the notch toward the end away from the notch.

15. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 12 , wherein a depth of the flow guiding groove gradually becomes shallower from an end close to the notch toward an end away from the notch.

16. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 12 , wherein a spacing between two adjacent guiding channels gradually increases from the end close to the notch toward the end away from the notch.

17. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 11 , wherein each of the flow guiding channels is a flow guiding hole.

18. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 17 , wherein the density of the flow guiding holes gradually decreases from the end close to the notch toward the end away from the notch.

19. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 17 , wherein the density of the flow guiding holes gradually increases from a top end of the second side wall to a bottom end of the second side wall.

20. The narrow border OLED display panel according to claim 9 , wherein the second retaining wall comprises two second side walls disposed on two sides of the organic sub-layer and a second sub-wall connected to two ends of the two second side walls, the notch being defined and formed between the other two ends of the second side walls; the first retaining wall comprises a first sub-wall located close to the notch; the second side walls, the second sub-wall, and the first sub-wall being disposed around the circumferential periphery of the organic sub-layer.

Assignees

• Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yang Jie
• Zhang Ming

Classifications

• G06F1/1609 Primary

  to support filters or lenses · CPC title

• H10K59/873 Primary

  Encapsulations · CPC title

• H01L51/5246

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/3244

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5253

  Electricity · mapped topic