Organic light emitting display device including graded functional layers

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9368757-B2
Application number	US-201314095581-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 3, 2013
Priority date	Jun 10, 2013
Publication date	Jun 14, 2016
Grant date	Jun 14, 2016

Abstract

An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate, a plurality of organic light emitting elements disposed on the substrate, the plurality of organic light emitting elements including a first organic light emitting element, a second organic light emitting element and a third organic light emitting element, an encapsulating member encapsulating the plurality of organic light emitting elements, a graded functional layers disposed on the encapsulating member, the graded functional layers including convex lenses disposed on pixel regions, and a black matrix disposed on the graded functional layer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An organic light emitting display device comprising:
a substrate;
a plurality of organic light emitting elements disposed on the substrate, the plurality of organic light emitting elements including a first organic light emitting element, a second organic light emitting element and a third organic light emitting element;
an encapsulating member encapsulating the plurality of organic light emitting elements;
graded functional layers disposed on the encapsulating member, the graded functional layers including convex lenses and concave lenses disposed on pixel regions, and connecting portions connecting adjacent convex lenses; and
a black matrix disposed on each of the connecting portions of the graded functional layers,
wherein the concave lenses are disposed closer to the encapsulating member than the convex lenses,
wherein the graded functional layers comprise a low refractive film and a high refractive film having a refractive index higher than that of the low refractive film and on the low refractive film,
wherein the convex lenses are formed of the high refractive film, the convex lenses including a first convex lens disposed on the first organic light emitting element, a second convex lens disposed on the second organic light emitting element and a third convex lens disposed on the third organic light emitting element,
wherein each of the first convex lens, the second convex lens and the third convex lens has an upper region disposed above an upper surface of the connecting portions and a lower region disposed below a lower surface of the connecting portions, and
wherein the third convex lens has a flat portion directly on its lower region.

2. The organic light emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein the first organic light emitting element is a red organic light emitting element, the second organic light emitting element is a green organic light emitting element and the third organic light emitting element is a blue organic light emitting element.

3. The organic light emitting display device of claim 2 , wherein each of the first convex lens and the second convex lens do not have a flat portion directly on their lower region.

4. The organic light emitting display device of claim 3 ,
wherein a width of the third convex lens is different from those of the first convex lens and the second convex lens, and
wherein the width of the first convex lens, the second convex lens and the third convex lens are measured from a region where radius of curvatures of the first convex lens, the second convex lens and the third convex lens are started to a region where radius of curvatures of the first convex lens, the second convex lens and the third convex lens are ended.

5. The organic light emitting display device of claim 3 ,
wherein a taper angle of the lower region in the third convex lens is different from that of the lower region in the first convex lens and the lower region in the second convex lens.

6. The organic light emitting display device of claim 3 ,
wherein a taper angle of the upper region in the third convex lens is different from that of the upper region in the first convex lens and the upper region in the second convex lens.

7. An organic light emitting display device comprising:
a substrate;
a plurality of organic light emitting elements disposed on the substrate, the plurality of organic light emitting elements including a first organic light emitting element, a second organic light emitting element and a third organic light emitting element;
an encapsulating member encapsulating the plurality of organic light emitting elements;
graded functional layers disposed on the encapsulating member, the graded functional layers including convex lenses and concave lenses disposed on pixel regions, and connecting portions connecting adjacent convex lenses; and
a black matrix disposed on each of the connecting portions of the graded functional layers,
wherein the concave lenses are disposed closer to the encapsulating member than the convex lenses,
wherein the graded functional layers comprise a low refractive film and a high refractive film having a refractive index higher than that of the low refractive film and on the low refractive film,
wherein the convex lenses are formed of the high refractive film, the convex lenses including a first convex lens disposed on the first organic light emitting element, a second convex lens disposed on the second organic light emitting element and a third convex lens disposed on the third organic light emitting element,
wherein the first organic light emitting element is a red organic light emitting element, the second organic light emitting element is a green organic light emitting element and the third organic light emitting element is a blue organic light emitting element,
wherein each of the first convex lens, the second convex lens and the third convex lens has an upper region disposed above an upper surface of the connecting portions and a lower region disposed below a lower surface of the connecting portions, and
wherein each of the first convex lens and the second convex lens has a flat portion directly on their upper region and the third convex lens does not have a flat portion directly on its upper region.

8. The organic light emitting display device of claim 7 ,
wherein a width of the third convex lens is different from that of the first convex lens and the second convex lens.

9. The organic light emitting display device of claim 7 ,
wherein a taper angle of the lower region in the third convex lens is different from that of the lower region in the first convex lens and the lower region in the second convex lens.

10. The organic light emitting display device of claim 7 ,
wherein a taper angle of the upper region in the third convex lens is different from that of the upper region in the first convex lens and the upper region in the second convex lens.

11. The organic light emitting display device of claim 7 ,
wherein a height of the lower region in the third convex lens are different from that of the lower region in the first convex lens and the lower region in the second convex lens, and
wherein the height of the lower region in the first convex lens, the second convex lens and the third convex lens are measured from a surface of the connecting portions.

12. The organic light emitting display device of claim 1 ,
wherein the first organic light emitting element, the second organic light emitting element and the third organic light emitting element are white organic light emitting elements.

13. The organic light emitting display device of claim 12 ,
wherein a width of the third convex lens is different from those of the first convex lens and the second convex lens, and
wherein the width of the first convex lens, the second convex lens and the third convex lens are measured from a region where radius of curvatures of the first convex lens, the second convex lens and the third convex lens are started to a region where radius of curvatures of the first convex lens, the second convex lens and the third convex lens are ended.

14. The organic light emitting display device of claim 13 ,
wherein a taper angle of the third convex lens is different from that of the first convex lens and the second convex lens.

15. The organic light emitting display device of claim 12 ,
wherein a taper angle of the third convex lens is different from that of the first convex lens and the second convex lens.

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Choi Hae-Yun
• Lim Jae-Ik
• Choi Jin-Woo

Classifications

• H10K59/8792

  comprising light absorbing layers, e.g. black layers · CPC title

• H10K59/879

  comprising refractive means, e.g. lenses · CPC title

• H10K59/87

  Passivation; Containers; Encapsulations · CPC title

• H10K50/858

  comprising refractive means, e.g. lenses · CPC title

• H10K59/1201 Primary

  Manufacture or treatment · CPC title