IP Library Granted Patent US 9,591,701
Granted Patent B2
US 9,591,701 · App. 14/670,176 · Granted Mar 7, 2017

EL display device

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Patent No.
US 9,591,701
App. No.
14/670,176
Granted
Mar 7, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A color filter type EL display device in which the deterioration of a light-emitting layer is prevented, which can be manufactured by a gang-printing method, and whose cost in manufacture is reduced includes: a display area having a plurality of pixels; a frame area surrounding the display area; lower electrodes each formed in each of pixels; an insulating layer separating the pixels; a light-emitting EL layer formed on the lower electrodes and the insulating layer so as to straddle the plurality of pixels; an upper electrode formed on the EL layer so as to straddle the plurality of pixels; and a sealing layer formed on the upper electrode. In the frame area, the upper electrode and the insulating layer contact each other, or the sealing layer and the insulating layer contact each other, so as to surround the display area.

Claims (28)

1. An EL display device comprising:

a display area having a plurality of pixels;

a frame area surrounding the display area;

lower electrodes each formed in each of the pixels;

an insulating layer separating the pixels;

a light-emitting EL layer formed on the lower electrodes and the insulating layer;

an upper electrode formed on the EL layer so as to straddle the plurality of pixels; and

a sealing layer formed on the upper electrode, wherein

in the frame area, the upper electrode and the insulating layer contact each other, and the sealing layer and the insulating layer contact each other, so as to surround the display area.

2. The EL display device according to claim 1 , wherein

a second sealing layer is formed on the upper electrode, and

the sealing layer and the insulating layer contact each other on an outer peripheral side of the second sealing layer.

3. The EL display device according to claim 1 , wherein

in the frame area, a groove is formed in the EL layer or the EL layer and the upper electrode so as to surround the display area, and

the upper electrode and the insulating layer or the sealing layer and the insulating layer contact each other at the groove.

4. The EL display device according to claim 3 , wherein

the upper electrode and the insulating layer contact each other at the groove, and

the sealing layer and the insulating layer contact each other on an outer peripheral side of the groove.

5. An EL display device comprising:

a display area having a plurality of pixels;

a frame area surrounding the display area;

lower electrodes each formed in each of the pixels;

a second insulating layer;

a light-emitting EL layer formed on the lower electrodes and the second insulating layer so as to straddle the plurality of pixels;

an upper electrode formed on the EL layer so as to straddle the plurality of pixels; and

a sealing layer formed on the upper electrode,

wherein the lower electrodes, the second insulating layer, the light-emitting EL layer and the upper electrode are formed on an array substrate which is a substrate on which a first insulating layer and a circuit layer which includes a transistor are formed,

wherein a first region in which the upper electrode and the second insulating layer contact each other or the sealing layer and the second insulating layer contact each other and a second region in which the substrate and the sealing layer contact each other with removing the circuit layer at a position nearer to an edge of the substrate than the first region are included in the frame area so as to surround the display area.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 26, 2026
From: MAGNOLIA WHITE CORPORATION
To: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 074188/0280 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 22, 2025
From: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
To: MAGNOLIA WHITE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 072130/0313 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 29, 2015
From: YAMADA, YASUYUKI; NAKAMURA, TOMOKI
To: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
Reel/Frame 035530/0938 →