Stretchable substrate

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12437680-B2
Application number	US-202118016480-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 31, 2021
Priority date	Aug 31, 2020
Publication date	Oct 7, 2025
Grant date	Oct 7, 2025

Abstract

An embodiment of the present invention provides a stretchable substrate that may be significantly stretchable to be deformed but have a low rate of breakage. Here, the stretchable substrate includes a cell, a cut portion, and an extended cut line. A plurality of cells are formed in the substrate body, and a device is mounted thereon. The cut portion is formed in the substrate body to increase a distance between the cells when the substrate body is stretched. The extended cutting line is formed to extend from an end portion of the cut portion and bent inwardly of the cell so that corners of the cells are rounded.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A stretchable substrate comprising: a plurality of cells formed in a substrate body allowing a device to mounted thereon; a cut portion formed in the substrate body to increase a distance between the cells when the substrate body is stretched; and an extended cutting line extending from an end portion of the cut portion and bent inwardly of the cells cell so that corners of the cells are rounded, wherein: the cut portion includes: a first basic cutting line formed on the substrate body in a first direction: a second basic cutting line formed on the substrate body in a second direction intersecting the first direction, wherein the second basic cutting line includes a first portion and a second portion that are symmetrically disposed on both sides of the first basic cutting line and are spaced apart from each other with interposing the first basic cutting line, and the second basic cutting line is spaced apart from the first basic cutting line; and a plurality of sub-cutting lines extending along the edge of the cell in an inside of the cell and not connected to each other but spaced apart from each other, wherein the extended cutting line is formed at an end portion of each of the sub-cutting lines; wherein, the extended cutting line formed in cells formed in first and third quadrants based on the first and second basic cutting lines.

2. The stretchable substrate of claim 1 , wherein: among the plurality of cells, the extended cutting line extends to be bent in a first rotation direction; and the extended cutting line formed in cells formed in second and fourth quadrants based on the first and second basic cutting lines, among the plurality of cells, extends to be bent in a second rotation direction.

3. The stretchable substrate of claim 1 , wherein:
a ratio of a thickness of the substrate body to a distance between portions of the sub-cutting lines and the extended cutting line adjacent to the sub-cutting lines is greater than 1.

4. The stretchable substrate of claim 1 , wherein:
the sub-cutting lines include:
a pair of first sub-cutting lines extending from the inside of the cell in the first direction along the edge of the cell and
a pair of second sub-cutting lines extending from the inside of the cell in the second direction along the edge of the cell,
wherein a first sub-cutting line disposed closer to the first basic cutting line, among the first sub-cutting lines, is vertically connected to the second basic cutting line, and
a second sub-cutting line disposed farther from the second basic cutting line, among the second sub-cutting lines, is vertically connected to the first sub-cutting line.

5. The stretchable substrate of claim 1 , wherein:
an electrode wiring is continuously provided on the plurality of cells not to cross the cut portion, and
the electrode wiring maintains a continuous state even when an interval between the cells is changed.

Assignees

• Korea Inst Mach & Materials
• Ct Advanced Meta Mat

Inventors

• Jang Bongkyun
• Won Sejeong
• Kim Jaegu
• Kim Jae-Hyun
• Lee Hak Joo
• Kweun Minwoo
• Kim Kwangseop

Classifications

• G09F9/301 Primary

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

• G09F9/30

  in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements (panels comprising a number of electrodes in a single cell controlling light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. electro-optical or magneto-optical cell, G02F1/00) · CPC title

• H05K1/02

  Details · CPC title

• H05K1/0283 Primary

  Stretchable printed circuits · CPC title