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US 8,742,784 · App. 12/759,593 · Granted Jun 3, 2014

Organic light emitting display device

Inventors: Kwang-Min Kim (Yongin, KR); Won-Kyu Kwak (Yongin, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,742,784
App. No.
12/759,593
Granted
Jun 3, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An organic light emitting display device having a lighting test circuit. The organic light emitting display device includes: a pixel unit including pixels at crossing regions of scan lines and data lines; a scan driving circuit configured to supply scan signals to the scan lines; and a lighting test circuit configured to supply lighting test signals to the data lines, the lighting test circuit including a plurality of transistors, the plurality of transistors including source electrodes, drain electrodes, and gate electrodes, the source electrodes being coupled, in common, to input lines to which the lighting test signals are input, the drain electrodes being coupled to the data lines, the gate electrodes being coupled, in common, to an input line of test control signals, and the gate electrodes and the source electrodes being coupled through a resistor composed of a semiconductor material.

Claims (24)

1. An organic light emitting display device comprising:

a pixel unit comprising pixels at crossing regions of scan lines and data lines;

a scan driving circuit configured to supply scan signals to the scan lines; and

a lighting test circuit configured to supply lighting test signals to the data lines,

the lighting test circuit comprising a plurality of transistors, the plurality of transistors comprising source electrodes, drain electrodes, and gate electrodes, the source electrodes being coupled, in common, to input lines to which the lighting test signals are input, the drain electrodes being coupled to the data lines, the gate electrodes being coupled, in common, to an input line of test control signals, and the gate electrodes and the source electrodes being coupled through a resistor composed of a semiconductor material,

wherein the resistor is integrally provided with a channel layer of the transistors, and

wherein the resistor is composed of a polysilicon semiconductor comprising an impurity not included in the channel layer of the transistors.

2. The organic light emitting display device as claimed in claim wherein the resistor has a resistance value of about 100 kΩ to about 1MΩ.

3. The organic light emitting display device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:

a data distribution circuit coupled between the lighting test circuit and the data lines to distribute and configured to distribute and output the lighting test signals supplied from the lighting test circuit to the data lines during a lighting test period.

4. The organic light emitting display device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:

a driving integrated circuit (IC) mounted in a chip form and overlapped with the lighting test circuit, the driving IC having a built-in data driving circuit.

5. An organic light emitting display device comprising:

a pixel unit comprising pixels at crossing regions of scan lines and data lines;

a scan driving circuit configured to supply scan signals to the scan lines; and

a lighting test circuit configured to supply lighting test signals to the data lines,

the lighting test circuit comprising a plurality of transistors, the plurality of transistors comprising source electrodes, drain electrodes, and gate electrodes, the source electrodes being coupled, in common, to input lines to which the lighting test signals are input, the drain electrodes being coupled to the data lines, the gate electrodes being coupled, in common, to an input line of test control signals, and the gate electrodes and the source electrodes being coupled through a resistor composed of a semiconductor material,

wherein the resistor is integrally provided with a channel layer of the transistors, and

wherein the resistor is composed of a polysilicon semiconductor comprising an impurity identical to that included in the channel layer of the transistors but doped at a different concentration from the impurity doped in the channel layer of the transistors.

6. The organic light emitting display device as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the resistor has a resistance value of about 100 kΩ to about 1 MΩ.

7. The organic light emitting display device as claimed in claim 5 , further comprising:

a data distribution circuit coupled between the lighting test circuit and the data lines to distribute and configured to distribute and output the lighting test signals supplied from the lighting test circuit to the data lines during a lighting test period.

8. The organic light emitting display device as claimed in claim 5 , further comprising:

a driving integrated circuit (IC) mounted in a chip form and overlapped with the lighting test circuit, the driving IC having a built-in data driving circuit.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Aug 29, 2012
From: SAMSUNG MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
To: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 028884/0128 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 14, 2010
From: KIM, KWANG-MIN; KWAK, WON-KYU
To: SAMSUNG MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 024234/0379 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2009-0082448 · Sep 2, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
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