IP Library Granted Patent US 8,152,583
Granted Patent B2
US 8,152,583 · App. 12/537,597 · Granted Apr 10, 2012

Manufacturing method of organic EL display device

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Patent No.
US 8,152,583
App. No.
12/537,597
Granted
Apr 10, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A mother element substrate and a mother seal substrate are adhered with each other via an adhesive sheet. An adhesive sheet cut portion of the adhesive sheet corresponding to a terminal portion is formed at a time when the adhesive sheet is applied to the mother seal substrate, thus requiring no processing of the terminal portion afterward. Since the adhesive sheet cut portion extends to reach an edge of the adhesive sheet to prevent deformation of the adhesive sheet around the terminal portion after adhering the mother element substrate and the mother seal substrate with each other under the negative pressure so as to be returned to the atmosphere, thus realizing the solid seal type organic EL display device with high reliability.

Claims (28)

1. A manufacturing method of an organic EL display device comprising the steps of:

adhering a mother element substrate on which a plurality of element substrates are formed to a mother seal substrate on which a plurality of seal substrates are formed via an adhesive sheet,

wherein the element substrates include a first element substrate, having a first display region and a first terminal portion, and a second element substrate having a second display region and a second terminal portion, and

wherein the first terminal portion exists between the first display region and the second display region,

wherein the adhesive sheet formed as a single continuous sheet includes an adhesive sheet cut portion which extends to reach and define an end portion of the adhesive sheet:

forming a mother panel by adhering, via the adhesive sheet, the mother element substrate to the mother seal substrate at a portion other than the first terminal portion formed on the element substrate corresponding to the adhesive sheet cut portion so that the first terminal portion is not covered by the adhesive sheet; and

separating the mother panel into the organic EL display devices each having the element substrate and the seal substrate.

2. The manufacturing method of an organic EL display device according to claim 1 , wherein the adhesive sheet is applied to a protective film as a roll type film.

3. The manufacturing method according to claim 1 , further comprising covering a second terminal portion, adjacent the first terminal portion, with the adhesive sheet.

4. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising aligning an edge of the mother seal substrate with the end portion of the adhesive sheet defined by the adhesive sheet cut portion prior to adhering the mother element substrate to the mother seal substrate so that the mother seal substrate is adhered at the portion other than the first terminal portion so that the first terminal portion is not covered by either the adhesive sheet or the mother seal substrate.

5. A manufacturing method of an organic EL display device comprising the steps of:

adhering a mother element substrate on which a plurality of element substrates are formed via an adhesive sheet

wherein the adhesive sheet formed as a single continuous sheet includes an adhesive sheet cut portion which extends to reach and define an end portion of the adhesive sheet, wherein the element substrates include a first element substrate, having a first display region and a first terminal portion, and a second element substrate having a second display region and a second terminal portion, and

wherein the first terminal portion exists between the first display region and the second display region;

forming a mother panel by adhering, via the adhesive sheet, the mother element substrate to the mother seal substrate at a portion other than the first terminal portion formed on the element substrate corresponding to the adhesive sheet cut portion while performing the adhesion under a negative pressure atmosphere so that the first terminal portion is not covered by the adhesive sheet;

keeping the adhesive sheet cut portion of the adhesive sheet in the mother panel communicated with the atmosphere; and

separating the mother panel into the organic EL display devices each having the element substrate and the seal substrate.

6. The manufacturing method according to claim 5 , further comprising covering a second terminal portion, adjacent the first terminal portion, with the adhesive sheet.

7. The method according to claim 5 , further comprising aligning an edge of the mother seal substrate with the end portion of the adhesive sheet defined by the adhesive sheet cut portion prior to adhering the mother element substrate to the mother seal substrate so that the mother seal substrate is adhered at the portion other than the first terminal portion so that the first terminal portion is not covered by either the adhesive sheet or the mother seal substrate.

8. A manufacturing method of an organic EL display device comprising the steps of:

forming a mother panel by adhering a mother element substrate on which a plurality of element substrates are formed to a mother seal substrate on which a plurality of seal substrates are formed via an adhesive material, wherein the element substrates include a first element substrate, having a first display region and a first terminal portion, and a second element substrate having a second display region and a second terminal portion, and

wherein the first terminal portion exists between the first display region and the second display region;

printing an adhesive surface with the adhesive material on the mother seal substrate to have a continuous surface and forming an adhesive material cut portion of the adhesive material in the adhesive surface to extend to reach and define an end portion of the adhesive material;

disposing the adhesive surface formed on the mother seal substrate on the first and second display regions of the first and second element substrates formed on the mother element substrate to form the mother panel by adhering, via the adhesive material, the mother element substrate to the mother seal substrate to dispose the adhesive material cut portion at the first terminal portion of the first element substrate formed on the mother element substrate so that the first terminal portion is not covered by the adhesive surface of the mother seal substrate; and

separating the mother panel into the organic EL display devices each having the element substrate and the seal substrate.

9. The manufacturing method of an organic EL display device according to claim 8 , wherein the mother seal substrate and the mother element substrate are adhered with each other under a negative pressure atmosphere.

10. The manufacturing method according to claim 8 , further comprising covering a second terminal portion, adjacent to the first terminal portion, with the adhesive surface of the mother seal substrate.

11. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising aligning an edge of the mother seal substrate with the end portion defined by the adhesive material cut portion prior to disposing the adhesive surface formed on the mother seal substrate on the display region of the element substrate formed on the mother element substrate to dispose the adhesive material cut portion at the first terminal portion so that the first terminal portion is not covered by either the adhesive material or the mother seal substrate.

Assignments (5)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 30, 2018
From: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.; JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
To: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 046988/0801 →
COMPANY SPLIT PLAN TRANSFERRING FIFTY (50) PERCENT SHARE IN PATENT APPLICATIONS Recorded Oct 20, 2011
From: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
To: IPS ALPHA SUPPORT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027092/0684 →
MERGER Recorded Oct 20, 2011
From: IPS ALPHA SUPPORT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027093/0937 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ELECTRONIC COVER SHEET, THE 2ND INVENTOR'S NAME IS MISSPELLED, PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 023068 FRAME 0892. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Oct 2, 2009
From: ISHII, YOSHINORI; KASE, SATORU; MATSUZAKI, EIJI
To: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 023317/0220 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 7, 2009
From: ISHII, YOSHINORI; KASE, STORU; MATSUZAKI, EIJI
To: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 023068/0892 →