Stretchable display substrate and stretchable display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11501667-B2
Application number	US-202016883013-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 26, 2020
Priority date	Aug 14, 2019
Publication date	Nov 15, 2022
Grant date	Nov 15, 2022

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a stretchable display substrate and a stretchable display device. The stretchable display substrate includes a substrate having a wiring region and a display region along a first direction, the display region including a plurality of display units and a plurality of connecting units, the plurality of display units being spaced apart from each other and arranged in an array; each of the hollow structures having a first extending portion extending along a second direction, wherein the display region includes a first transition region close to the wiring region and a central region away from the wiring region, and the first length of the first extending portion of each of the hollow structures in the transition region is not greater than the first length of the first extending portion of each of the hollow structures in the central region.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A stretchable display substrate, comprising:
a substrate having a wiring region and a display region along a first direction, the display region comprising a plurality of display units and a plurality of connecting units, the plurality of display units being spaced apart from each other and arranged in an array, and between any two adjacent display units, one connection unit is provided;
a plurality of functional layers sequentially stacked in the display region;
a plurality of hollow structures penetrating through the plurality of functional layers and the substrate, each of the plurality of hollow structures being at a center of four display units and surrounded by the four display units, each of the hollow structures having a first extending portion extending along a second direction, and the first extending portion having a first length along the second direction,
wherein the first direction intersects with the second direction, and
the display region comprises a first transition region close to the wiring region and a central region away from the wiring region, and the first length of the first extending portion of each of the hollow structures in the first transition region is equal to the first length of the first extending portion of each of the hollow structures in the central region, and
in the first transition region, one end of the first extending portion of each of the hollow structures away from a center of the hollow structure is filled with an elastic organic layer, and second lengths of the elastic organic layers in the second direction gradually increase from a side of the first transition region close to the central region to a side of the first transition region close to the wiring region.

2. The stretchable display substrate of claim 1 , wherein the first transition region comprises 6 to 8 columns of the display units in the first direction.

3. The stretchable display substrate of claim 1 , wherein each of the hollow structures further comprises a second extending portion extending along the first direction, and third lengths of the second extending portions of the hollow structures in the display region along the first direction are equal to each other.

4. The stretchable display substrate of claim 1 , wherein the substrate further comprises a fixing region at a side of the display region away from the wiring region, and
the display region further comprises a second transition region close to the fixing region, and the first length of the first extending portion of each of the hollow structures in the second transition region is not greater than the first length of the first extending portion of each of the hollow structures in the central region.

5. The stretchable display substrate of claim 4 , wherein a number of columns of display units in the second transition region is equal to a number of columns of display units in the first transition region.

6. The stretchable display substrate of claim 5 , wherein in the second transition region, the first lengths of the first extending portions of the hollow structures gradually decrease from a side of the second transition region close to the central region to a side of the second transition region close to the fixing region.

7. The stretchable display substrate of claim 5 , wherein
the first lengths of the first extending portions of the hollow structures in the second transition region are equal to the first lengths of the first extending portions of the hollow structures in the central region,
one end of the first extending portion of each of the hollow structures in the second transition region away from a center of the hollow structure is filled with an elastic organic layer, and
in the second transition region, second lengths of the elastic organic layers in the second direction gradually increase from a side of the second transition region close to the central region to a side of the second transition region close to the fixing region.

8. The stretchable display substrate of claim 1 , wherein the elastic organic layer comprises at least one of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), polyethylene naphthalate (PEN), polyimide (PI), polyetherimide (PEI), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), epoxy, polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA).

9. The stretchable display substrate of claim 1 , wherein each of the hollow structures comprises two second extending portions extending opposite to each other in the first direction, two first extending portions extending opposite to each other in the second direction, and a central portion at an intersection of the two first extending portions and the two second extending portions.

10. The stretchable display substrate of claim 9 , wherein a distance between the two first extending portions in the first direction is equal to a length of the central portion in the first direction, and a distance between the two second extending portions in the second direction is equal to a width of the central portion in the second direction.

11. The stretchable display substrate of claim 1 , wherein in each of the display units, the plurality of functional layers comprise:
a buffer layer on the substrate;
a thin film transistor and an inorganic layer on the buffer layer;
an anode on surfaces of the thin film transistor and a part of the inorganic layer away from the substrate,
a light emitting layer and a pixel defining layer on the anode, the pixel defining layer defining the light emitting layer as a plurality of light emitting layers spaced apart from each other;
a cathode on the light emitting layer and the pixel defining layer; and
a wall on a surface of the inorganic layer away from the substrate and at an edge of each of the display units close to a respective one of the hollow structures.

12. A stretchable display device, comprising the stretchable display substrate of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd
• Beijing Boe Technology Dev Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sui Kai
• Xue Jinxiang
• Sun Zhongyuan
• Wang Xiaofen

Classifications

• G09F9/301 Primary

  flexible foldable or roll-able electronic displays, e.g. thin LCD, OLED · CPC title

• G06F1/1652 Primary

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

• Y02E10/549

  Organic PV cells · CPC title

• H01L2227/323

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/3246

  Electricity · mapped topic