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Granted Patent B2
US 10,497,873 · App. 15/996,531 · Granted Dec 3, 2019

Display panel manufacturing system and method of manufacturing a display panel using the same

Inventors: Byungchul Lee (Hwaseong-si, KR); Heungcheol Jeong (Hwaseong-si, KR); Myungsoo Huh (Suwon-si, KR); Jongsung Kim (Cheonan-si, KR); Byoung-hoon Choi (Hwaseong-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
H01L51/0012B41J2/2135B41J2/2146B41J25/001G01B11/272G01N21/956H01L51/56B41J2/01B41J25/003G01B2210/56H01L27/3244H01L51/0005
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Patent No.
US 10,497,873
App. No.
15/996,531
Granted
Dec 3, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display panel manufacturing system includes a substrate providing module configured to provide a substrate including an active region on which thin-film transistors are disposed, and a peripheral region adjacent to the active region, a test substrate providing module configured to provide a test substrate, an organic film forming module configured to form an ink pattern on each of the substrate and the test substrate, the organic film forming module including a plurality of heads, each of which is configured to drop an ink, an offset inspection module configured to inspect the ink pattern on the substrate, a pattern inspection module configured to inspect the ink pattern on the test substrate, and a droplet inspection module configured to inspect an ink, which is dropped from a head selected from the heads.

Claims (27)

1. A display panel manufacturing system, comprising:

a substrate providing module configured to provide a substrate comprising an active region, thin-film transistors disposed on the active region, and a peripheral region adjacent to the active region;

a test substrate providing module configured to provide a test substrate;

an organic film forming module configured to form an ink pattern on each of the substrate and the test substrate, the organic film forming module comprising a plurality of heads, each of the plurality of heads configured to drop an ink;

an offset inspection module configured to inspect the ink pattern on the substrate;

a pattern inspection module configured to inspect the ink pattern on the test substrate; and

a droplet inspection module configured to inspect an ink, the ink dropped from a selected head from the plurality of heads,

wherein the organic film forming module, the offset inspection module, and the droplet inspection module are configured to move together.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the organic film forming module is configured to form first ink patterns on the test substrate, and

the pattern inspection module is configured to inspect the first ink patterns and to adjust positions of the plurality of heads.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the organic film forming module is configured to form second ink patterns on the substrate, and

the offset inspection module is configured to inspect alignment accuracy between patterns, and to adjust positions of the plurality of heads, the patterns respectively formed on the active region and the peripheral region and selected from the second ink patterns.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the second ink patterns are formed on the active region and the peripheral region.

5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the plurality of heads are configured

to move in a direction perpendicular to a motion direction of the substrate by the offset inspection module; and

to move and rotate in a direction perpendicular to the motion direction of the substrate by the pattern inspection module.

6. The system of claim 3 , wherein the selected head is selected from the plurality of heads, when the first ink patterns or the second ink patterns are being inspected.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein each of the heads comprises a plurality of nozzles, and

at least one of the nozzles of the selected head does not eject the ink or forms an ink pattern whose size is different from that of a reference ink pattern.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the droplet inspection module comprises a laser irradiation device and an electronic balance device, and

the laser irradiation device is provided between the electronic balance device and the selected head and is configured to inspect the ink, the ink provided from the selected head to the electronic balance device.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the droplet inspection module further comprises a filter,

the laser irradiation device comprises a laser irradiation part, the laser irradiation part is configured to irradiate the ink with a laser beam, and a laser receiving part, the laser receiving part is configured to receive the laser beam emitted from the ink, and

the filter is configured to control an intensity of the laser beam, which is incident from the laser irradiation part, and to control directivity of the laser beam, which is emitted from the ink.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the filter comprises a diffraction slit.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the droplet inspection module further comprises an ink suction device, and

the ink suction device is disposed between the electronic balance device and the selected head, and the ink suction device is configured to suck an ink to be leaked to an outside of the electronic balance device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 4, 2018
From: LEE, BYUNGCHUL; JEONG, HEUNGCHEOL; HUH, MYUNGSOO; KIM, JONGSUNG; CHOI, BYOUNG-HOON
To: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2017-0128084 · Sep 29, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190103559A1 · Apr 4, 2019
Cited By (1)
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