Electronic shelf label

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12580609-B2
Application number	US-202318347380-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 5, 2023
Priority date	Jul 11, 2022
Publication date	Mar 17, 2026
Grant date	Mar 17, 2026

Abstract

An electronic shelf label, including: a TFT substrate integrated with an NFC coil, wherein the NFC coil is configured to realize an NFC function and is connected to an IC or an FPC to drive and control the NFC coil. In examples, the NFC function is integrated into the TFT substrate, so that the size of an FPC or a PCB can be reduced, which not only makes the electronic shelf label thinner and lighter, but also realizes the NFC function without increasing the cost of the FPC or the PCB.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An electronic shelf label, comprising a TFT substrate integrated with an NFC coil for realizing an NFC function, wherein the NFC coil is connected to an IC or an FPC to drive and control the NFC coil;
a film layer structure of the TFT substrate is added with a metal layer, which forms a horizontal NFC coil wire and a longitudinal NFC coil wire; the horizontal NFC coil wire is disposed above a Gate line formed by a first metal layer and overlapped with the Gate line, and the longitudinal NFC coil wire is deposed above a Data line formed by a second metal layer and overlapped with the Data line; the film layer structure of the TFT substrate is further added with a dielectric layer, through which the added metal layer in the film layer structure of the TFT substrate is isolated from a third metal layer in the film layer structure of the TFT substrate; the TFT substrate is an array of pixels, each pixel comprises one horizontal NFC coil wire and one longitudinal NFC coil wire, and NFC coil wires of adjacent pixels are disconnected from each other; a horizontal NFC connection line is formed on the added metal layer in the film layer structure of the TFT substrate, and the horizontal NFC coil wires in the pixels are connected through the horizontal NFC connection line; and a longitudinal NFC connection line is formed on the third metal layer in the film layer structure of the TFT substrate, and is connected to the longitudinal NFC coil wires in the pixels through vias formed by the added dielectric layer in the film layer structure of the TFT substrate.

2 . The electronic shelf label according to claim 1 , wherein a film layer structure of the TFT substrate comprises a first metal layer, a first dielectric layer, an active layer, a second metal layer, a second dielectric layer, a fourth metal layer, a third dielectric layer, and a third metal layer provided in sequence;
the fourth metal layer forms a horizontal NFC coil wire and a longitudinal NFC coil wire; the horizontal NFC coil wire is disposed above a Gate line formed by a first metal layer and overlapped with the Gate line, and the longitudinal NFC coil wire is deposed above a Data line formed by a second metal layer and overlapped with the Data line.

3 . The electronic shelf label according to claim 1 , wherein a film layer structure of the TFT substrate comprises a first metal layer, a first dielectric layer, an active layer, a second metal layer, a second dielectric layer, a fourth metal layer, a third dielectric layer, and a third metal layer provided in sequence;
the fourth metal layer is the added metal layer, the fourth metal layer forms the horizontal NFC coil wire and the longitudinal NFC coil wire, and the horizontal NFC connection line is formed on the fourth metal layer; and the third dielectric layer is the added dielectric layer, and the third dielectric layer forms the vias.

4 . The electronic shelf label according to claim 3 , wherein each horizontal NFC connection line is located between two longitudinal NFC coil wires that are adjacent to it, and is spaced apart from the two longitudinal NFC coil wires.

5 . The electronic shelf label according to claim 4 , wherein the longitudinal NFC connection line, which connects to the two longitudinal NFC coil wires through the vias, extends across the horizontal NFC connection line and is spaced apart from the horizontal NFC connection line in a thickness direction of the TFT substrate.

6 . The electronic shelf label according to claim 4 , wherein the horizontal NFC connection line is overlapped with the Gate line in a thickness direction of the TFT substrate.

7 . The electronic shelf label according to claim 1 , wherein the horizontal NFC connection line is overlapped with the Gate line in a thickness direction of the TFT substrate.

Assignees

• Hanshow Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Li Yanchen

Classifications

• G06K19/07779

  the inductive antenna being a coil · CPC title

• G06K19/07754

  the connection being galvanic · CPC title

• G09F3/204

  specially adapted to be attached to a shelf or the like · CPC title

• G09F3/208

  Electronic labels, Labels integrating electronic displays · CPC title

• H04B5/72 Primary

  for local intradevice communication · CPC title