IP Library Granted Patent US 7,511,310
Granted Patent B2
US 7,511,310 · App. 11/562,179 · Granted Mar 31, 2009

Light emitting device

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Patent No.
US 7,511,310
App. No.
11/562,179
Granted
Mar 31, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A light emitting device includes: a plurality of transistors individually corresponding to a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix shape, and a plurality of wiring lines connected with the transistors and disposed between the pixels. The wiring lines include signal lines connected with the transistors of the pixel columns composed of a plurality of pixels along a row direction or a column direction, and two or more common electrode lines connected with the transistors of a pixel group composed of a plurality of pixels along the row direction and the column direction. The common electrode lines are arranged on the two sides centering the signal lines.

Claims (19)

1. A light emitting device comprising:

a plurality of transistors corresponding, respectively, to a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix shape having rows and columns; and

a plurality of wiring lines connected to the transistors and disposed between the pixels of a plurality of columns or rows,

wherein the wiring lines include

two or more common electrode lines, respectively connected to the transistors of the pixels of two adjacent columns or rows,

a signal line positioned between two of the common electrode lines,

and wherein,

a short circuit condition between the wiring lines can be detected at any position along the wiring lines.

2. A light emitting device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the pixels emit light by means of organic electroluminescence phenomena.

3. A light emitting device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the wiring lines between any given pair of pixel columns include at least one common electrode that is not connected to any other common electrode extending between any other pair of pixel columns by means of separated portions, and

wherein a bridge wiring line is disposed to connect the separated portions.

4. A light emitting device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the signal lines include switching transistors at terminal ends thereof, so that the signals lines are connected through the individual switching transistors to a common inspection signal line.

5. A light emitting device according to claim 4 ,

wherein the switching transistors are connected at their sources to the signal lines and at their gates and drains to the common inspection line via which an inspection signal can provided to the signal lines.

6. A light emitting device according to claim 4 ,

wherein a voltage of the inspection signal fed to the switching transistors is equal to or lower than a threshold voltage of the transistors which drive the pixels.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 15, 2015
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: JOLED INC.
Reel/Frame 036106/0355 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 22, 2006
From: ARAI, TOSHIAKI; HIROMASU, YASUNOBU; TOYOTA, MOTOHIRO
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 018546/0068 →