Pixel structure for OLED display and metal mask thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-RE48229-E
Application number	US-201316104128-A
Country	US
Kind code	E1
Filing date	Dec 31, 2013
Priority date	Jan 24, 2013
Publication date	Sep 29, 2020
Grant date	Sep 29, 2020

Abstract

A pixel structure for OLED display is disclosed. The pixel structure includes multi-row pixel unit groups, each pixel unit group includes a plurality of pixel units arranged repeatedly is sequence, and each pixel unit includes a first sub pixel, a second sub pixel and a third sub pixel, wherein the same sub pixels of the pixel units in adjacent two rows are arranged in dislocation in a horizontal direction. The pixel structure can widen the distance between the corresponding openings of the sub pixels when making the corresponding metal mask to enhance the strength of the metal mask that a pixel unit of a smaller size can be produced under the consideration of process condition, so as to improve the resolution of the OLED display.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A pixel structure for OLED display, comprising a plurality of rows of pixel unit groups, wherein each pixel unit group comprises a plurality of pixel units arranged repeatedly in sequence, each pixel unit comprises a first sub pixel, and a second sub pixel and a third sub pixel lined up, the second sub pixel and the third sub pixel are aligned vertically along one a vertical side of the first sub pixel, and the arrangement of the first sub pixel, the second sub pixel and the third sub pixel of the pixel unit in each even row of the plurality of rows of pixel unit groups is formed by flipping the pixel unit in any odd row of the plurality of rows of pixel unit groups horizontally by 180°, wherein a vertical center line of horizontal spacing between the first sub pixel and a closest sub pixel thereto of the second sub pixels and third sub pixels does not overlap with a vertical center line of the pixel unit, and the vertical center line of horizontal spacing is positioned on the one side of the vertical center line of the pixel unit with the first sub pixel, and wherein the pixel unit group in the even row is arranged to be offset by a first distance with respect to the pixel unit group in the odd row in a horizontal direction, so that the first sub pixel of one of the pixel units in the even row is adapted to be positioned in a position with an equal distance from first sub pixels, respectively, in two adjacent pixel units in an adjacent odd row.

2. The pixel structure of claim 1 , wherein the first sub pixel, the second sub pixel anti the third sub pixel are rectangles.

3. The pixel structure of claim 1 , wherein the pixel unit has a shape of square, the first sub pixel has a shape of rectangle, the second sub pixel and the third sub pixel are aligned vertically along vertical side is a long side of the first sub pixel, and the a length of the long side of the first sub pixel is larger than two-thirds of a side length of the pixel unit.

4. The pixel structure of claim 3 , wherein an area of the first sub pixel is larger than that of the second sub pixel and that of the third sub pixel, anti is smaller than half of an area of the pixel unit.

5. The pixel structure of claim 4 , wherein the area of the first sub pixel is twice as that of at least one of the second and third sub pixels.

6. The pixel structure of claim 4 , wherein the first sub pixel is a blue pixel, the second sub pixel is a red pixel and the third sub pixel is a green pixel.

7. The pixel structure of claim 3 , wherein an area of the second sub pixel or the third sub pixel is larger than an area of each of the remaining two sub pixels.

8. The pixel structure of claim 7 , wherein the area of the second sub pixel or the third sub pixel is twice as that of at least one of the remaining two sub pixels.

9. The pixel structure of claim 7 , wherein the second sub pixel or the third sub pixel is a blue sub pixel, and the remaining two sub pixels are a red sub pixel and a green sub pixel.

10. A metal mask configured for making sub pixels in a pixel structure according to claim 1 , comprising a substrate comprising a plurality of openings arranged in turn in rows and columns configured to form the sub pixel, wherein the openings in an even row and the openings in an odd row are arranged in dislocation in a horizontal direction.

11. The metal mask of claim 10 , wherein, distances from an opening in an the even row to two adjacent openings in an the odd row adjacent to the even row are the same.

12. An OLED display, wherein the display comprises the pixel structure of claim 1 .

13. The pixel structure of claim 9, wherein areas of the red sub pixel and the green sub pixel are the same.

14. The OLED display of claim 12, wherein the vertical side is a long side of the first sub pixel, and a length of the long side of the first sub pixel is larger than two-thirds of a side length of the pixel unit.

15. The OLED display of claim 14, wherein an area of the first sub pixel is larger than that of the second sub pixel and that of the third sub pixel, and is smaller than half of an area of the pixel unit.

16. The OLED display of claim 15, wherein the area of the first sub pixel is twice as that of at least one of the second and third sub pixels.

17. The OLED display of claim 12, wherein the pixel unit has a shape of square.

18. The OLED display of claim 12, wherein the first sub pixel, the second sub pixel and the third sub pixel are rectangles.

19. The pixel structure of claim 1, wherein the vertical side is a long side of the first sub pixel, and a length of the long side of the first sub pixel is larger than two-thirds of a side length of the pixel unit.

20. The pixel structure of claim 1, wherein the pixel unit has a shape of square.

Assignees

• Kunshan Visionox Display Co Ltd
• Kunshan Govisionox Optoelectronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Peng Chaochi
• Qiu Yong
• Zhang Shenfu

Classifications

• H01L27/3218

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/3216 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/3211

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H10K59/353 Primary

  characterised by the geometrical arrangement of the RGB subpixels · CPC title

• H10K59/352 Primary

  the areas of the RGB subpixels being different · CPC title