Array substrate and display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018301467-A1
Application number	US-201615510166-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 29, 2016
Priority date	Jan 7, 2016
Publication date	Oct 18, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

An array substrate and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate. The base substrate includes a display area and a non-display area. The display area is provided with a plurality of first signal lines and a plurality of second signal lines. The plurality of first signal lines and the plurality of second signal lines intersect to define a plurality of pixel units, and the plurality of first signal lines is substantially radially distributed.

First claim

1 . An array substrate, comprising a base substrate, the base substrate comprising a display area, the display area provided with a plurality of first signal lines and a plurality of second signal lines, the plurality of first signal lines and the plurality of second signal lines intersecting to define a plurality of pixel units, and the plurality of first signal lines being substantially radially distributed.

2 . The array substrate according to claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of first signal lines comprises any of a straight line type, a broken line type or a curve type; or the plurality of first signal lines comprises any combination of the straight line type, the broken line type and the curve type.

3 . The array substrate according to claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of second signal lines comprises a body part, a shape of the body part matches a shape formed by an outer edge of the display area, and the body parts of the plurality of second signal lines are successively distributed outwards by taking a radiation center of the plurality of first signal lines radially distributed as a center.

4 . The array substrate according to claim 3 , wherein the shape formed by the outer edge of the display area is a regular shape, the radiation center is a center of the regular shape, and the shapes formed by the body parts of the plurality of second signal lines are similar shapes being concentric and having different areas.

5 . The array substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of pixel units have a substantially identical area.

6 . The array substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the pixel units are triangular, rectangular, trapezoidal or sector-ringed.

7 . The array substrate according to claim 4 , wherein
the regular shape is a circle, the body part of each of the plurality of second signal lines is a circle or arc, the body parts of the plurality of second signal lines are concentric circles having different radii or concentric arcs having different curvature radii, and the radiation center is the center of the circle.

8 . The array substrate according to claim 7 , wherein
differences between the radii of every two adjacent concentric circles or differences between the curvature radii of every two adjacent concentric arcs are different.

9 . The array substrate according to claim 8 , wherein
the differences between the radii or the differences between the curvature radii gradually decrease in a direction extending from the center of the circle to the outer edge of the display area.

10 . The array substrate according to claim 3 , wherein
a distribution density of the body parts of the plurality of second signal lines gradually decreases in a direction extending from a center of the shape formed by the outer edge to the outer edge.

11 . The array substrate according to claim 3 , wherein
widths of the body parts of the plurality of second signal lines gradually increase in a direction extending from a center of the shape formed by the outer edge to the outer edge.

12 . The array substrate according to claim 7 , wherein
proportions of the radii or curvature radii of the body parts of the plurality of second signal lines successively distributed in a direction extending from the center of the circle to the outer edge satisfy a following condition: √{square root over (1)}:√{square root over (2)}:√{square root over (3)}:2 . . . √{square root over (n)}, where n is a number of the plurality of second signal lines.

13 . The array substrate according to claim 1 , wherein one of the first signal line and the second signal line is a gate line, and a remaining one of the first signal line and the second signal line is a data line.

14 . A display device, comprising the array substrate according to claim 1 .

15 . The display device according to claim 14 , further comprising:
a non-display area; and a drive circuit, the drive circuit is arranged in the non-display area and in a region of the non-display area surrounded by the display area, a radiation center of the plurality of first signal lines is located in the region of the non-display area surrounded by the display area.

16 . The display device according to claim 15 , wherein the drive circuit comprises a first signal line drive circuit and/or a second signal line drive circuit.

17 . The display device according to claim 16 , wherein
each of the plurality of second signal lines further comprises a lead part, and a body part of each of the plurality of second signal lines is connected with the second signal line drive circuit through the lead part corresponding to the body part.

18 . The display device according to claim 17 , wherein
the body part and the lead part of each of the plurality of second signal lines are made of an identical material and at a same layer through one patterning process.

19 . The display device according to claim 17 , wherein the body part and the lead part of each of the plurality of second signal lines are arranged at different layers and connected through a via hole.

20 . The display device according to claim 14 , wherein the plurality of second signal lines is made of an identical material or different materials.

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• LAI Chengte
• Wang Hong
• Zhou Chengqi
• Li Shou
• Jing Yaoqiu

Classifications

• G09G3/20 Primary

  for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix {no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters} · CPC title

• G09G2300/0439

  Pixel structures · CPC title

• H01L27/124 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G02F1/1345

  Conductors connecting electrodes to cell terminals · CPC title

• G02F1/136286 Primary

  Wiring, e.g. gate line, drain line · CPC title