FLEXIBLE DISPLAY MODULE AND DISPLAY DEVICE
20230016636 · 2023-01-19
Assignee
Inventors
Cpc classification
G06F1/1652
PHYSICS
G09G2300/0452
PHYSICS
International classification
Abstract
The present application provides a flexible display module. A display area of the flexible display module comprises a plurality of island-shaped structures separated from each other. A bending structure including at least three bending portions is provided to connect the island-shaped structures, which effectively realizes stretching of the flexible display module in three directions of space. At the same time, since the bending structure is connected to one end of one side of the adjacent island-shaped structures, it increases a bending length of the bending structure and a bending space of the flexible display module. The present application also provides a display device comprising the flexible display module.
Claims
1. A flexible display module, wherein a display area of the flexible display module comprises: a plurality of island-shaped structures, wherein each of the island-shaped structures is provided with a pixel unit, and the plurality of island-shaped structures are separated from each other and arranged in a matrix; and a plurality of bending structures, wherein each of the bending structures comprises a plurality of metal lines electrically connected to the pixel unit, and the plurality of bending structures connect adjacent island-shaped structures; wherein a first bending structure of the plurality of bending structures comprises at least three bending portions, the first bending structure comprises at least two bending directions, and one end of the first bending structure connected to each of the adjacent island-shaped structures is disposed on one end of one side of corresponding island-shaped structures.
2. The flexible display module according to claim 1, wherein the three bending portions are a first bending portion, a second bending portion, and a third bending portion; one end of the first bending portion is connected to a first island-shaped structure electrically; another end of the first bending portion is electrically connected to one end of the second bending portion; another end of the second bending portion is electrically connected to one end of the third bending portion; another end of the third bending portion is electrically connected to a second island-shaped structure; and the first island-shaped structure is adjacent to the second island-shaped structure; wherein a bending direction of the first bending portion and a bending direction of the second bending portion are different.
3. The flexible display module according to claim 2, wherein the bending direction of the first bending portion is opposite to the bending direction of the second bending portion.
4. The flexible display module according to claim 2, wherein a curvature of the first bending portion is same as a curvature of the second bending portion.
5. The flexible display module according to claim 2, wherein the first bending portion and the third bending portion are symmetrical along a symmetry axis of the first bending structure.
6. The flexible display module according to claim 1, wherein each of the island-shaped structures comprises a first side, a second side, a third side, and a fourth side, wherein the first side and the second side are oppositely arranged, and the third side and the fourth side are oppositely arranged; the first bending structure is connected to the first side of each of the adjacent island-shaped structures by a first connecting portion, the plurality of bending structures further comprise a second bending structure, and the second bending structure is connected to the second side of each of the adjacent island-shaped structures by a second connecting portion; and the first connecting portion is disposed at one end of the first side close to the third side, and the second connecting portion is disposed at one end of the second side close to the fourth side.
7. The flexible display module according to claim 6, wherein the plurality of bending structures further comprise a third bending structure and a fourth bending structure, and the third bending structure is connected to the third side by a third connecting portion, the fourth bending structure is connected to the fourth side by a fourth connecting portion, the third connecting portion is disposed at one end of the third side away from the first side, and a fourth connecting portion is disposed at one end of the fourth side away from the second side.
8. The flexible display module according to claim 7, wherein the first side, the second side, the third side, and the fourth side of each of the island-shaped structures form a square; and the first bending structure, the second bending structure, the third bending structure, and the fourth bending structure are disposed symmetrically around a center of the square.
9. The flexible display module according to claim 6, wherein the first bending portion of the first bending structure is away from one end of the first side close to the third side, and the second bending portion of the first bending structure is close to one end of the first side close to the third side.
10. The flexible display module according to claim 6, wherein the first connecting portion comprises a first chamfer and a second chamfer that are disposed oppositely, and a curvature of the first chamfer is same as a curvature of the second chamfer.
11. The flexible display module according to claim 1, wherein the pixel unit comprises a first color sub-pixel, a second color sub-pixel, and a third color sub-pixel, and an area of the third color sub-pixel is larger than that of a sum of an area of the first color sub-pixel and an area of the second color sub-pixel.
12. The flexible display module according to claim 1, wherein the pixel unit comprises a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel, and a fourth sub-pixel, and the first sub-pixel corresponds to the first color sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel corresponds to the second color sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel correspond to the third color sub-pixel.
13. The flexible display module according to claim 1, wherein each of the bending structures comprises: a first flexible substrate; a buffer layer disposed on one side of the first flexible substrate; a second flexible substrate disposed on one side of the buffer layer away from the first flexible substrate; a first packaging layer disposed on one side of the second flexible substrate away from the buffer layer; a wiring substrate disposed on one side of the first packaging layer away from the second flexible substrate; a spacer disposed on one side of the wiring substrate away from the first packaging layer; and a second packaging layer disposed on one side of the spacer away from the wiring substrate; wherein at least four of the metal lines are provided within the wiring substrate, and the at least four metal lines are arranged in parallel and equidistantly.
14. The flexible display module according to claim 13, wherein the metal lines comprise at least data lines, gate lines, driving voltage lines, and voltage transmission lines.
15. A display device, wherein a display area of the flexible display module comprises: a plurality of island-shaped structures, wherein each of the island-shaped structures is provided with a pixel unit, and the plurality of island-shaped structures are separated from each other and arranged in a matrix; and a plurality of bending structures, wherein each of the bending structures comprises a plurality of metal lines electrically connected to the pixel unit, and the plurality of bending structures connect the adjacent island-shaped structures; wherein a first bending structure of the plurality of bending structures comprises at least three bending portions, the first bending structure comprises at least two bending directions, and one end of the first bending structure connected to each of the adjacent island-shaped structures is disposed on one end of one side of corresponding island-shaped structures.
16. The display device according to claim 15, wherein the three bending portions are a first bending portion, a second bending portion, and a third bending portion; and one end of the first bending portion is connected to a first island-shaped structure electrically; another end of the first bending portion is electrically connected to one end of the second bending portion; another end of the second bending portion is electrically connected to one end of the third bending portion; another end of the third bending portion is electrically connected to a second island-shaped structure; and the first island-shaped structure is adjacent to the second island-shaped structure; wherein a bending direction of the first bending portion and a bending direction of the second bending portion are different.
17. The display device according to claim 15, wherein each of the island-shaped structures comprises a first side, a second side, a third side, and a fourth side, wherein the first side and the second side are oppositely arranged, and the third side and the fourth side are oppositely arranged; the first bending structure is connected to the first side of each of the adjacent island-shaped structures by a first connecting portion, the plurality of bending structures further comprise a second bending structure, and the second bending structure is connected to the second side of each of the adjacent island-shaped structures by a second connecting portion; and the first connecting portion is disposed at one end of the first side close to the third side, and the second connecting portion is disposed at one end of the second side close to the fourth side.
18. The display device according to claim 17, wherein the plurality of bending structures further comprise a third bending structure and a fourth bending structure, the third bending structure is connected to the third side by a third connecting portion, the fourth bending structure is connected to the fourth side by a fourth connecting portion, the third connecting portion is disposed at one end of the third side away from the first side, and the fourth connecting portion is disposed at one end of the fourth side away from the second side.
19. The display device according to claim 18, wherein the first side, the second side, the third side, and the fourth side of each of the island-shaped structures form a square, and the first bending structure, the second bending structure, the third bending structure, and the fourth bending structure are disposed symmetrically around a center of the square.
20. The display device according to claim 17, wherein the first bending portion of the first bending structure is away from one end of the first side close to the third side, and the second bending portion of the first bending structure is close to one end of the first side close to the third side.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0047] Following detailed descriptions of specific implementations of the present application in conjunction with accompanying drawings will make technical solutions and other beneficial effects of the present application obvious.
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS
[0058] Technical solutions in embodiments of the present application will be described clearly and completely combined with accompanying drawings. Obviously, embodiments described below are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative work shall fall a protection scope of the present application.
[0059] In descriptions of the present application, it can be understood that orientation or location relationships indicated by terms “center”, “longitudinal”, “transverse”, “length”, “width”, “thickness”, “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “back”, “left”, “right”, “vertical”, “horizontal”, “top”, “bottom”, “inner” , “outer” , “clockwise” and “counterclockwise” are based on orientation or location relationships shown in the drawings, which is only for the convenience of describing the present application and simplifying description, rather than indicating or implying that a device or an element referred must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, so it cannot be understood as a limitation to the present application. In addition, terms “first” and “second” are only used for descriptive purpose, and cannot be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating numbers of a technical feature indicated. Therefore, features defined with the “first” or the “second” can comprise one or more of the features explicitly or implicitly. In the descriptions of the present application, a term “a plurality of” means two or more than two, unless otherwise specifically defined.
[0060] In the descriptions of the present application, it should be noted that, unless clearly specified and limited otherwise, terms “installation”, “connection” and “connection” should be understood in a broad sense, for example, it can be a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integral connection; it can be a mechanical connection, an electrical connection, or communicate with each other; it can be directly connected, indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, or an internal communication of two components or an interaction of two components relationship. For those skilled in the art, specific meanings of the above-mentioned terms in the present application can be understood according to specific circumstances.
[0061] In the present application, unless expressly stipulated and defined otherwise, a first feature being “on” or “under” a second feature may comprise a direct contact between the first feature and the second feature, or it can also comprise that the first feature and the second feature are not in the direct contact but in contact with another feature between them. Moreover, the first feature being “on” a second feature means that the first feature directly above or obliquely above the second feature, or it simply means that the first feature is higher than the second feature in a horizontal direction. The first feature being “ under ” a second feature means that the first feature directly under or obliquely under the second feature, or it simply means that the first feature is lower than the second feature in a horizontal direction.
[0062] A following disclosure provides many different embodiments or examples for realizing different structures of the present application. In order to simplify the disclosure of the present application, components and arrangements of specific examples are described below. Of course, they are only examples and are not intended to limit the present application. In addition, the present application can repeat reference numbers and/or reference letters in different examples, and repetition is only for the purpose of simplification and clarity, and does not indicate a relationship between the various embodiments and/or arrangements discussed. In addition, the present application provides examples of various specific processes and materials, but those skilled in the art should be aware of applications of other processes and/or uses of other materials.
[0063] In particular, throughout this specification, a planar schematic diagram can be a surface schematic diagram parallel to two directions (for example, a direction DR1 and a direction DR2) crossing each other, and a cross-sectional schematic diagram can be a surface schematic diagram in a direction DR3 perpendicular to a surface parallel to the direction DR1 and the direction DR2. In addition, an overlapping of two constituent elements means that the two constituent elements overlap in the direction DR3 (for example, in a vertical base direction). A flexible display module provided in the present application can be stretched in the direction DR1, the direction DR2, and the direction DR3.
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[0066] In some embodiments, the plurality of island-shaped structures 500 are arranged in a matrix in a display area of the flexible display module, and a planar shape of the island-shaped structure package 500 can be one of polygon, ellipse, triangle, or circle.
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[0068] In some embodiments, the first bending portion 610 is connected to the unit structure UAa by a first connecting portion, and the first connecting portion comprises a first chamfer R1 and a second chamfer R2. The first chamfer R1 and the second chamfer R2 are used to reduce a stress concentration phenomenon generated when the flexible display module is stretched. A curvature of the first chamfer R1 is the same as a curvature of the second chamfer R2, and a width of the first chamfer R1 and a width of the second chamfer R2 are from 10 microns to 20 microns.
[0069] In some embodiments, the first bending portion 610, the second bending portion 620, and the third bending portion 630 comprise at least two strips curved in two different directions. For example, the first bending portion 610 is connected to the second bending portion 620 in a clockwise direction, the second bending portion 620 is connected to the third bending portion 630 in a counterclockwise direction, and the third bending portion 630 is electrically connected to the unit area UAb in a clockwise direction.
[0070] In some embodiments, the first bending structure 600 is a strip structure with a uniform width, and the width of the first bending structure 600 is from 40 μm to 50 μm. A curvature of an inner edge and a curvature of an outer edge of the first bending structure 600 are the same, a curvature of an inner edge rotation angle R3 of the first bending portion 610 is the same as a curvature of an inner edge rotation angle R4 of the second bending portion 610, a width of the inner edge rotation angle R3 of the first bending portion 610 is the same as a width of the inner edge rotation angle of the second bending portion 620, and the width of the inner edge rotation angle R3 of the first bending portion 610 and the width of the outer edge rotation angle R4 of the second bending portion is from 10 microns to 20 microns.
[0071] In some embodiments, the first bending structure 600 is horizontally symmetrical along a center of the second bending portion 620. The second bending portion 620 comprises one half of the second bending portion 621 and the other half of the second bending portion 622, the bending portion 621 and the bending portion 622 bisect the inner edge corner of the second bending portion 620. The curvature of the inner edge rotation angle R4 of the third bending portion is the same as a curvature of an inner edge rotation angle R5 of the first bending portion, the width of the inner edge rotation angle R4 of the first bending portion 610 and a width of the inner edge rotation angle R5 of the third bending portion 630 are the same, and the width of the inner edge rotation angle R3 of the first bending portion 610 and the width of the inner edge R5 of the third bending portion are from 10 microns to 20 microns.
[0072] In some embodiments, the first bending structure 600 is symmetrical along a center of the bending structure 600 in a vertical direction, and the adjacent unit UAa and the unit UAb connected in a vertical direction are symmetrical along a center line between the unit UAa and the unit UAb.
[0073] Since the curvature of the inner edge angle R3 of the first bending portion 610, the curvature of the outer edge angle R4 of the second bending portion 620, and the curvature of the inner edge angle R5 of the third bending portion 630 are the same, and bending directions of the first bending portion 610 and the second bending portion 620 are opposite, the first bending structure 600 forms a micro-structure like a spring, which can stretch the two adjacent island structures 500 in the direction DR1 and the direction DR2. At the same time, the first bending structure 600 can also move in a direction perpendicular to the direction DR1 and the direction DR2, which effectively improves stretchability of the flexible display module.
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[0075] In some embodiments, a shape of the unit UAa is square, and the unit UAa comprises a first side, a second side, a third side, and a fourth side. The first side and the second side are oppositely arranged. The third side and the fourth side are oppositely arranged. The first bending structure 600 is connected to the first side of the island-shaped structure by a first connecting portion, and the second bending structure 700 is connected to the second side of the island-shaped structure by a second connecting portion, the third bending structure 800 is connected to the third side by a third connecting portion, and the fourth bending structure 900 is connected to the fourth side by a third connecting portion, wherein the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion are arranged on both sides of a center perpendicular of the island-shaped structure, and the third connecting portion and the fourth connecting portion are arranged on both sides of a symmetry axis of the island-shaped structure.
[0076] In some embodiments, the first connecting portion is disposed at one end of the first side close to the third side, the second connecting portion is disposed at one end of the second side close to the fourth side, the third connecting portion is disposed at one end of the third side away from the first side, and the fourth connecting portion is disposed at one end of the fourth side away from the second side.
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[0079] In some embodiments, a shape of each color sub-pixel can comprise, but is not limited to, square, rhombus, rectangle, circle, polygon, etc.
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[0081] In some embodiments, shapes of the first sub-pixel R and the second sub-pixel G are square, and shapes of the third sub-pixel B1 and the fourth sub-pixel B2 are rectangular.
[0082] In some embodiments, the shapes of the first sub-pixel R, the second sub-pixel G, the third sub-pixel B1, and the fourth sub-pixel B2 are square, and the first sub-pixel R, the second sub-pixel G, the third sub-pixel B1 and the fourth sub-pixel B2 can be arranged in an alternating manner, wherein the blue pixels can be arranged in a mirrored manner.
[0083] In some embodiments, the third sub-pixel B1 and the fourth sub-pixel B2 can emit blue light of different wavelengths, and the third sub-pixel B1 and the fourth sub-pixel B2 can be arranged in a minor symmetrical manner.
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[0086] The first flexible substrate S1 and the second flexible substrate S3 can be made of one of urethane rubber, acrylic and silicon rubber, which have good stretchability; the buffer layer S2 is used to reduce a risk of crack caused by a deformation of the wiring area, if the flexible substrate S1 has a crack, then the crack of the flexible substrate S1 cannot be conducted to the second flexible substrate S3 due to an effect of the buffer layer S2. The wiring substrate S5 comprises an organic insulating material, which comprise but is not limited to polyimide-based polymer, polypropylene polymer, siloxane polymer, fluorine-containing polymer, or benzene-containing polymer. The spacer S6 also plays a role in isolating crack and reducing a risk of fracture. After testing, a resistance of the metal wire W3 will not change within a preset stretching degree.
[0087] A purpose of the implementation of the present application is to design a flexible, stretchable, and retractable display device, which can realize a characteristic of stretch deformation along three directions in space. When the flexible display module is stretched in a state of not less than a preset elongation, a resistance of the metal wires between the adjacent pixel units does not change significantly, a display brightness remains basically unchanged, and a screen can be freely restored to its original state, thereby achieving a characteristic of a retractable flexible display. Through the implementation of the present application, it provides technical supports and solutions for fields of a flexible wearable display, a vehicle display, and a flexible medical display.
[0088] In the above-mentioned embodiments, the description of each embodiment has its own focus. For parts that are not described in detail in an embodiment, reference may be made to related descriptions of other embodiments.
[0089] The above is a detailed introduction to the flexible display module and the display device provided by the embodiments of the present application. Specific examples are used in this article to explain principles and implementations of the present application. The description of the above embodiments is only used to help understanding the technical solutions of the present application and its core ideas; those of skilled in the art should understand that: they can still modify the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments, or equivalently replace some of the technical features; and these modifications or replacements, does not cause an essence of the corresponding technical solutions to deviate from a scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application.