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US 11,825,677 · App. 17/420,011 · Granted Nov 21, 2023

Display substrate, method of manufacturing the same, display apparatus, and mask

Inventor: Yue Liu (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: Boe Technology Group Co., LTD.
H10K50/822H10K50/813H10K59/121H10K59/35H10K59/352H10K59/353H10K71/00H10K71/60H10K59/122H10K59/60H10K2102/3026
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Patent No.
US 11,825,677
App. No.
17/420,011
Granted
Nov 21, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display substrate has a plurality of sub-pixel regions used to display images and a non-sub-pixel region surrounding the sub-pixel regions. The display substrate includes a light-emitting device layer. The light-emitting device layer includes a first electrode layer. The first electrode includes a plurality of first electrodes electrically connected to each other and at least one hollowed-out region among part of adjacent first electrodes. The at least one hollowed-out region is located in the non-sub-pixel region.

Claims (58)

1. A display substrate, having a plurality of sub-pixel regions used to display images and a non-sub-pixel region surrounding the sub-pixel regions; wherein

the display substrate comprises a light-emitting device layer, the light-emitting device layer includes a first electrode layer; the first electrode layer includes a plurality of first electrodes electrically connected to each other and at least one hollowed-out region among part of adjacent first electrodes; and the at least one hollowed-out region is located in the non-sub-pixel region;

the plurality of sub-pixel regions include a plurality of rows of sub-pixel regions, the plurality of rows of sub-pixel regions include odd-numbered rows of sub-pixel regions and even-numbered rows of sub-pixel regions; and the plurality of rows of sub-pixel regions include a plurality of first color sub-pixel regions, a plurality of second color sub-pixel regions, and a plurality of third color sub-pixel regions; and

each row of sub-pixel regions in the odd-numbered rows of sub-pixel regions includes first color sub-pixel regions and second color sub-pixel regions, each row of sub-pixel regions in the even-numbered rows of sub-pixel regions includes third color sub-pixel regions, and first electrodes corresponding to the third color sub-pixel regions in each row of sub-pixel regions in the even-numbered rows of the sub-pixel regions are arranged alternately with hollowed-out regions along a row direction; or,

each row of sub-pixel regions in the even-numbered rows of sub-pixel regions includes the first color sub-pixel regions and the second color sub-pixel regions, each row of sub-pixel regions in the odd-numbered rows of sub-pixel regions includes the third color sub-pixel regions, and the first electrodes corresponding to the third color sub-pixel regions in each row of sub-pixel regions in the odd-numbered rows of the sub-pixel regions are arranged alternately with the hollowed-out regions along the row direction.

2. The display substrate according to claim 1 , wherein

the light-emitting device layer further includes a second electrode layer stacked with the first electrode layer, and the second electrode layer includes a plurality of second electrodes spaced apart from each other; and

a region among at least part of adjacent second electrodes overlaps with the at least one hollowed-out region.

3. The display substrate according to claim 1 , wherein

the plurality of first electrodes are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of sub-pixel regions;

along the row direction, the third color sub-pixel regions are staggered from the first color sub-pixel regions and the second color sub-pixel regions, and first electrodes corresponding to the third color sub-pixel regions are staggered from first electrodes corresponding to the first color sub-pixel regions and first electrodes corresponding to the second color sub-pixel regions; and

adjacent first electrodes in the first electrodes corresponding to the first color sub-pixel regions and the first electrodes corresponding to the second color sub-pixel regions in each row of sub-pixel regions in the odd-numbered rows of sub-pixel regions are in direct contact, and are directly connected to the first electrodes, which are corresponding to the third color sub-pixel regions, located between the adjacent first electrodes in the row direction and adjacent to the adjacent first electrodes in a column direction; or,

adjacent first electrodes in the first electrodes corresponding to the first color sub-pixel regions and the first electrodes corresponding to the second color sub-pixel regions in each row of sub-pixel regions in the even-numbered rows of sub-pixel regions are in direct contact, and are directly connected to the first electrodes, which are corresponding to the third color sub-pixel regions, located between the adjacent first electrodes in the row direction and adjacent to the adjacent first electrodes in a column direction.

4. The display substrate according to claim 1 , wherein

a first color sub-pixel region is a blue sub-pixel region, a second color sub-pixel region is a red sub-pixel region, and a third color sub-pixel region is a green sub-pixel region.

5. The display substrate according to claim 4 , wherein

a shape of a first electrode corresponding to a first color sub-pixel region is same as a shape of a first electrode corresponding to a second color sub-pixel region; and

an area of the first electrode corresponding to the first color sub-pixel region is same as an area of the first electrode corresponding to the second color sub-pixel region.

6. The display substrate according to claim 5 , wherein

a shape of a first electrode corresponding to a third color sub-pixel region is same as the shape of the first electrode corresponding to the first color sub-pixel region; and

an area of the first electrode corresponding to the third color sub-pixel region is same as the area of the first electrode corresponding to the first color sub-pixel region.

7. The display substrate according to claim 1 , wherein

at least part of adjacent first electrodes overlap in the non-sub-pixel region.

8. The display substrate according to claim 1 , wherein

the plurality of first electrodes are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of sub-pixel regions; and

an edge of a first electrode extends beyond an edge of a sub-pixel region corresponding to the first electrode, and distances from the edge of the first electrode to the edge of the sub-pixel region are equal everywhere.

9. A mask, used to manufacture the first electrode layer in the display substrate according to claim 1 by evaporation.

10. A display apparatus, comprising: the display substrate according to claim 1 .

11. The display apparatus according to claim 10 , further comprising:

a collection portion disposed on a side away from a light-emitting side of the light-emitting device layer, wherein an orthogonal projection of the collection portion on a plane in which the display substrate is located is within an orthogonal projection of a hollowed-out region among adjacent first electrodes on the plane in which the display substrate is located.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein

the light-emitting device layer further includes a second electrode layer stacked with the first electrode layer, and the second electrode layer includes a plurality of second electrodes spaced apart from each other; and

a region among at least part of adjacent second electrodes overlaps with the at least one hollowed-out region; and

the orthogonal projection of the collection portion on the plane in which the display substrate is located is within an overlapping region between an orthogonal projection of the region among at least part of adjacent second electrodes on the plane in which the display substrate is located and an orthogonal projection of a hollowed-out region on the plane in which the display substrate is located, so as to receive a collection signal from a light-emitting side of the display apparatus.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein

the collection portion includes at least one of a camera, a fingerprint reader, or a vital-sign collector.

14. A method of manufacturing a display substrate, wherein the display substrate has a plurality of sub-pixel regions and a non-sub-pixel region surrounding the plurality of sub-pixel regions;

the plurality of sub-pixel regions include a plurality of rows of sub-pixel regions, the plurality of rows of sub-pixel regions include odd-numbered rows of sub-pixel regions and even-numbered rows of sub-pixel regions; and the plurality of rows of sub-pixel regions include a plurality of first color sub-pixel regions, a plurality of second color sub-pixel regions, and a plurality of third color sub-pixel regions; and

each row of sub-pixel regions in the odd-numbered rows of sub-pixel regions includes first color sub-pixel regions and second color sub-pixel regions, each row of sub-pixel regions in the even-numbered rows of sub-pixel regions includes third color sub-pixel regions, and first electrodes corresponding to the third color sub-pixel regions in each row of sub-pixel regions in the even-numbered rows of the sub-pixel regions are arranged alternately with hollowed-out regions along a row direction; or,

each row of sub-pixel regions in the even-numbered rows of sub-pixel regions includes the first color sub-pixel regions and the second color sub-pixel regions, each row of sub-pixel regions in the odd-numbered rows of sub-pixel regions includes the third color sub-pixel regions, and the first electrodes corresponding to the third color sub-pixel regions in each row of sub-pixel regions in the odd-numbered rows of the sub-pixel regions are arranged alternately with the hollowed-out regions along the row direction, and,

the method of manufacturing the display substrate comprises:

forming a first electrode layer on a base by a mask; wherein

the first electrode layer includes a plurality of first electrodes electrically connected to each other and at least one hollowed-out region among part of adjacent first electrodes, and the at least one hollowed-out region is located in the non-sub-pixel region.

15. The method of manufacturing the display apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein

the plurality of first electrodes are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of sub-pixel regions;

the forming the first electrode layer by the mask includes:

forming the first electrodes corresponding to the first color sub-pixel regions and the first electrodes corresponding to the second color sub-pixel regions by a first sub-mask of the mask.

16. The method of manufacturing the display substrate according to claim 15 , wherein the forming the first electrode layer by the mask further includes:

forming the first electrodes corresponding to the third color sub-pixel regions by the first sub-mask.

17. A display substrate, having a plurality of sub-pixel regions used to display images and a non-sub-pixel region surrounding the sub-pixel regions; wherein

the display substrate comprises a light-emitting device layer, the light-emitting device layer includes a first electrode layer; the first electrode layer includes a plurality of first electrodes electrically connected to each other and at least one hollowed-out region among part of adjacent first electrodes; and the at least one hollowed-out region is located in the non-sub-pixel region;

the plurality of sub-pixel regions are arranged in an array;

the plurality of first electrodes are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of sub-pixel regions, and there are M columns of sub-pixel regions; and

in a row direction, at least part of adjacent first electrodes are in direct contact; in a column direction, at least part of adjacent first electrodes in X-th column are in direct contact; X is greater than or equal to 1, and less than or equal to M, and X and M are both positive integers.

18. A method of manufacturing the display substrate according to claim 17 , the method of manufacturing the display substrate comprises:

forming the first electrode layer on a base by a mask, wherein

the forming the first electrode layer on the base by the mask includes:

in the column direction, forming first electrodes corresponding to the X-th column of sub-pixel regions by a second sub-mask of the mask; and in the row direction, forming other first electrodes by a third sub-mask of the mask.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 30, 2021
From: LIU, YUE
To: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 201910934187.5 · Sep 29, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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