IP Library Granted Patent US 10,023,950
Granted Patent B2
US 10,023,950 · App. 15/512,107 · Granted Jul 17, 2018

Vapor deposition mask and organic el display device

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Patent No.
US 10,023,950
App. No.
15/512,107
Granted
Jul 17, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

The purpose is providing a vapor deposition mask with high rigidity which can evaporate a uniform thickness film. A vapor deposition mask including a mask body having a main opening, a side surface of the main opening, an upper surface intersecting the side surface, and a lower surface opposing the upper surface, a first insulator contacting the lower surface, and a second insulator contacting the upper and side surfaces, wherein the first insulator includes a first region inside the main opening, and a first opening in the first region, the second insulator includes a second region inside the main opening, and a second opening in the second region, the mask body is sandwiched between the first and second insulators, and one of the first and second insulators includes a region located inside the main opening more centrally than the other and not overlapping with the other and the mask body.

Claims (33)

1. A vapor deposition mask comprising:

a mask body having a main opening part, a side surface of the main opening part, an upper surface intersecting with the side surface, and a lower surface intersecting with the side surface and opposing the upper surface;

a first insulator contacting the lower surface; and

a second insulator contacting the upper surface and the side surface,

wherein

the first insulator includes a first opening part inside the main opening part, and a first region located between the main opening part and the first opening part,

the second insulator includes a second opening part inside the main opening part, and a second region located between the main opening part and the second opening part,

the mask body is sandwiched between the first insulator and the second insulator, and

one of the first region and the second region includes a portion which does not overlap the mask body and an other of the first region and the second region.

2. The vapor deposition mask according to claim 1 , wherein a film thickness of the one is thinner than a film thickness of the other.

3. The vapor deposition mask according to claim 1 , wherein the second region includes the portion, the second opening part is located more inside than the first opening part, and the second region located at an end of the second opening part does not overlap with the first insulator and the mask body.

4. The vapor deposition mask according to claim 3 , wherein the second region includes a step formed inside the main opening part by a part not overlapping with the first insulator and the mask body, a part contacting a side surface of the first opening, and a part contacting an upper surface of the first insulator.

5. The vapor deposition mask according to claim 1 , wherein the first region includes the portion, the first opening part is located more inside than the second opening part, and the first region located at an end of the first opening part does not overlap with the second insulator and the mask body.

6. The vapor deposition mask according to claim 5 , wherein the first region includes a part not overlapping with the second insulator and the mask body, and a step is formed inside the main opening part by the part and the second region.

7. The vapor deposition mask according to claim 1 , wherein the mask body is made of an invar material.

8. The vapor deposition mask according to claim 1 , wherein the first insulator and the second insulator are made from an organic material.

9. The vapor deposition mask according to claim 1 , wherein the first insulator and the second insulator include silicon oxide or silicon nitride.

10. An organic EL display device comprising a light emitting layer formed using the vapor deposition mask according to claim 1 .

11. A vapor deposition mask comprising:

a mask body having a main opening part, a side surface of the main opening part, an upper surface intersecting with the side surface, and a lower surface intersecting with the side surface and opposing the upper surface;

a first insulator contacting the lower surface;

a second insulator contacting the upper surface and the side surface; and

a third insulator contacting the second insulator and opposing the upper surface and the side surface via the second insulator,

wherein

the first insulator includes a first opening part inside the main opening part, and a first region located between the main opening part and the first opening part,

the second insulator includes a second opening part inside the main opening part, and a second region located between the main opening part and the second opening part,

the third insulator includes a third opening part inside the main opening part, and a third region located between the main opening part and the third opening part,

the mask body is sandwiched between the first insulator and the second insulator, and

the third region includes a portion which does not overlap the first region, the second region, and the mask body.

12. The vapor deposition mask according to claim 11 , wherein a film thickness of the third insulator is the thinnest among the film thickness of the first insulator, a film thickness of the second insulator and a film thickness of the third insulator.

13. The vapor deposition mask according to claim 11 , wherein the third opening part is located furthest inside among the first opening part, the second opening part and the third opening part.

14. The vapor deposition mask according to claim 13 , wherein the third region includes a step formed inside the main opening part by a part not overlapping with the first region, the second region, and the mask body, a part contacting a side surface of the first opening part and a side surface of the second opening part, and a part contacting an upper surface of the second region.

15. An organic EL display device comprising a light emitting layer formed using the vapor deposition mask according to claim 11 .

Assignments (2)
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 Mar 17, 2017
From: SATO, TOSHIHIRO; OOKAWARA, TAKESHI
To: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
Reel/Frame 041605/0516 →