OLED with butterfly-shaped spacer
View Patent ↗The present application proposes a display panel, including a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, wherein the display panel includes: a plurality of metal traces and a plurality of color resist blocks located in the display area; and a test key located in the non-display area, wherein the test key includes a plurality of color resist patterns and a plurality of metal patterns, each of the color resist patterns corresponds to a corresponding one of the color resist blocks, each of the metal patterns corresponds to one of the metal traces, and each of the color resist patterns is disposed correspondingly between adjacent ones of the metal patterns.
1. A display panel, which comprises:
a substrate;
a driving circuit layer disposed on the substrate;
a pixel definition layer disposed on the driving circuit layer, and comprising a plurality of pixel definition units arranged at intervals and a plurality of sub-pixel grooves located between the plurality of pixel definition units; and
a support layer disposed on the pixel definition layer and comprising a plurality of spacers arranged on the pixel definition unit at intervals, wherein the spacers are disposed between adjacent sub-pixel grooves, and the spacers are formed of a plurality of sub-supporting columns;
wherein each of the spacers comprises:
a central body arranged between vertexes of adjacent sub-pixel grooves;
a first butterfly-shaped wing arranged corresponding to one of the vertexes of the sub-pixel grooves, and having a middle part connected to the central body; and
a second butterfly-shaped wing arranged corresponding to another one of the vertexes of the sub-pixel grooves, and having a middle part connected to the central body;
wherein the first butterfly-shaped wing and the second butterfly-shaped wing are arranged in a pair on opposite sides of the central body, and an edge of each of the first butterfly-shaped wing and the second butterfly-shaped wing extends alongside an edge of one of the sub-pixel grooves; and
wherein the central body has a polygonal cross-section, each of the first butterfly-shaped wing and the second butterfly-shaped wing is formed of one or more of the sub-supporting columns connected to each other, and each of the sub-supporting columns has a bulbous portion.
2. The display panel of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of sub-pixel grooves has a symmetry axis positioned on a first straight line and vertexes arranged opposite to each other, and each of the spacers has a center point positioned on the first straight line.
3. The display panel of claim 1 , wherein a cross-section of each of the sub-supporting columns has a shape comprising one or more of a polygon, a circle, or an oval.
4. The display panel of claim 1 , wherein the first butterfly-shaped wing, the second butterfly-shaped wing, and the central body are integrally disposed.
5. The display panel of claim 1 , wherein each of the spacers has a cross-section of an axially symmetric shape and a symmetry axis parallel or perpendicular to the first straight line.
6. The display panel of claim 1 , wherein all of the spacers have a same height.
7. The display panel of claim 1 , wherein a center width of each of the spacers between adjacent sub-pixel grooves is smaller than a minimum distance between adjacent sub-pixel grooves, and a distance between two opposite ends of each of the spacers is greater than the minimum distance between adjacent sub-pixel grooves.
8. A display device, comprising the display panel of claim 1 .