Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, it is necessary to provide a display panel, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device, which can avoid display defects, in order to solve the problem of how to avoid display defects.
A display panel comprises laminated films and an optical adhesive layer arranged between the adjacent films, wherein the optical adhesive layer comprises optical adhesive and a barrier body used for separating at least part of the optical adhesive, and the barrier body is embedded in the optical adhesive.
In one embodiment, the projection of the optical glue on the side of the display panel covers the projection of the barrier on the side of the display panel.
In one embodiment, the number of the barrier bodies is at least two, and at least two barrier bodies are independent from each other;
preferably, the projection area of the barrier on the surface of the optical adhesive layer is 0.01mm2~4mm2。
In one embodiment, the display panel includes a central region and edge regions at both sides of the central region, and the density of the barrier at the central region is greater than the density of the barrier at the edge regions.
In one embodiment, the display panel further includes a display layer group on the diaphragm side, the display layer group having a light emitting region, and the front projection of the barrier is offset from the light emitting region.
In one embodiment, the material of the barrier is cured UV glue.
Also provided is a method of manufacturing a display panel, comprising the steps of:
forming an optical adhesive layer on one film of the display panel, and then attaching another film to the optical adhesive layer to obtain the display panel; the optical adhesive layer comprises an optical adhesive and a barrier body used for separating at least part of the optical adhesive, and the barrier body is embedded in the optical adhesive.
In one embodiment, the method comprises the following steps:
forming a barrier for separating at least part of the optical adhesive on a membrane of the display panel to obtain the membrane with the barrier; and
forming optical cement on the diaphragm with the barrier, and then attaching another diaphragm to obtain a display panel; the optical cement is abutted to the diaphragms on the two sides.
In one embodiment, the method comprises the following steps:
providing an optical adhesive layer module, wherein the optical adhesive layer module comprises a heavy release film layer, a light release film layer and an optical adhesive layer positioned between the heavy release film layer and the light release film layer; the optical adhesive layer comprises an optical adhesive and a barrier body used for separating at least part of the optical adhesive, and the barrier body is embedded into the optical adhesive; and
removing the heavy release film layer and the light release film layer, and attaching the optical adhesive layer between two adjacent membranes of the module structure to obtain a display panel;
preferably, the method for manufacturing the optical adhesive layer module comprises the following steps:
forming a barrier body for blocking at least part of the optical adhesive on the heavy release film layer to obtain the heavy release film layer with the barrier body; and
forming optical adhesive on the heavy release film layer with the barrier body, and then attaching the light release film layer to obtain an optical adhesive layer module; the optical cement is abutted with the heavy release film layer and the light release film layer on the two sides.
In addition, a display device is also provided, which comprises the display panel.
By applying the display panel, the manufacturing method thereof and the display device in the technical scheme of the invention, the blocking body is embedded in the optical cement, when the display panel is bent, the blocking body blocks the flow of the optical cement at the adjacent position, and the stacking thickness of the optical cement is reduced, so that the stacking degree of the optical cement can be reduced, the optical cement is prevented from forming wrinkles when the display panel is bent, bad display is avoided, and the display panel is beneficial to application. In addition, the stress of the display panel during bending can be effectively released, and the bending radius can be increased.
Detailed Description
In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below. In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein.
It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present. The terms "vertical," "horizontal," "left," "right," and the like as used herein are for illustrative purposes only.
Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used in the description of the invention herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
The traditional display panel is easy to cause the problem of poor display in the bending process. The inventor of the invention finds in practice that the bonding of each layer in the AMOLED product module process is completed by OCA (optical cement), the thickness of the OCA is generally 10-90 μm, even hundreds of micrometers, and the thickness is too thick compared with the thickness of the whole soft screen; when the display panel is bent, the deformation cannot be released, so that the stress is unbalanced, the stress is released in a fold form in the thickness direction, and particularly, a fold is formed between a Touch Panel (TP) and a polarization Plane (POL), so that the bending radius of the flexible screen is influenced, and cracks of other film layers can be caused.
Therefore, the present invention provides a display panel, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device capable of avoiding display defects.
The display panel of the invention may be an OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) or an AMOLED (Active-matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) display screen. Further, the display screen may be a flexible display screen.
Referring to fig. 1, a display panel 100 according to an embodiment includes a display layer group 110, and two or more films 120 are covered on the display layer group 110. The optical adhesive layer 130 is bonded to the diaphragms 120 between two adjacent diaphragms 120. The display layer group 110 may include a substrate 111, a plurality of light emitting pixels 112 disposed on the substrate 111, and an encapsulation layer 113 for encapsulating the light emitting pixels 112. The film 120 may be a polarizer 121 and a cover plate 122.
The position of the optical adhesive layer of the present invention is not limited, and any optical adhesive layer in any position in the display panel is within the scope of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1, a display panel 100 according to an embodiment of the invention includes stacked film sheets 120, and an optical adhesive layer 130 between adjacent film sheets 120, where the optical adhesive layer 130 includes an optical adhesive 131 and a barrier 132 for blocking at least a portion of the optical adhesive 131, and the barrier 132 is embedded in the optical adhesive 131.
The optical adhesive may be acrylic resin, modified polymethacrylic resin, epoxy polyester or other adhesives. The thickness of the optical cement is preferably 30 μm to 150 μm.
The barrier of the invention is used for separating at least part of optical cement. Specifically, the blocking body may be embedded in any position of the optical cement as long as part of the optical cement can be separated. For example, the barrier may be embedded in the surface layer of the optical adhesive or embedded in the optical adhesive. Preferably, the thickness of the optical cement is greater than or equal to that of the barrier body, so that the surface of the optical cement is smooth, and the adhesion of the diaphragms on two sides is prevented from being influenced.
On the basis of the foregoing embodiment, referring to fig. 2, the number of the barriers 132 is at least two, and at least two barriers 132 are independent from each other. That is, at least two of the barriers 132 are non-continuous. Therefore, compared to the case where the projected areas of the at least two barriers 132 on the surface of the optical adhesive layer 130 are the same and the at least two barriers 132 are continuous, in the present embodiment, the contact area between the plurality of barriers 132 and the optical adhesive 131 is larger, so that the flow of the optical adhesive 131 is blocked more when the display screen is bent, and the accumulation degree can be reduced to a greater extent.
Preferably, the projected area of the barrier 132 on the surface of the optical adhesive layer 130 is 0.01mm2~4mm2. Of course, the projection area of the barrier 132 on the surface of the optical adhesive layer 130 is not limited thereto.
Referring to fig. 3, a display panel according to another embodiment of the invention includes an optical adhesive layer 230. The optical adhesive layer 230 includes an optical adhesive 231 and a barrier 232 for blocking at least a portion of the optical adhesive 231. In this embodiment, the projection of the optical paste 231 on the side surface of the display panel covers the projection of the barrier 232 on the side surface of the display panel, and the barrier 232 extends from the surface of the optical paste 231 through the optical paste 231.
Wherein, the side of the display panel refers to a surface perpendicular to an extending direction of the display panel.
In this embodiment, the blocking body 232 can completely block the optical cement 231, and when the display panel is bent, the blocking body 232 completely blocks the flow of the optical cement 231 at the adjacent position, so that the accumulation degree of the optical cement 231 is effectively reduced, the optical cement is prevented from forming wrinkles when the display panel is bent, and poor display is effectively prevented.
Of course, in other embodiments, the barrier may not penetrate the optical adhesive. At this time, the thickness of the barrier is smaller than that of the optical cement, and the optical cement covers the barrier.
Referring to fig. 4, a display panel according to another embodiment of the invention includes a central region 310 and edge regions 320 located at two sides of the central region 310, wherein the density of the barriers 330 located in the central region 310 is greater than the density of the barriers 330 located in the edge regions 320.
When the display screen is bent by an external force, the central region 310 of the display screen is bent with a larger radius of curvature, and the radius of curvature of the bending decreases gradually from the central region 310 to the edge region 320. The inventor finds that the separation of the membrane caused by the extrusion and accumulation of the optical cement can be avoided by arranging the barrier 330 with higher density in the central area 310 of the display screen. In the edge area 320 of the display screen, a less dense barrier 330 may be provided to increase the bonding between two adjacent films. In the transition area 340 between the central area 310 and the edge area 320, since the radius of curvature of the display screen is gradually reduced when the display screen is bent, the barrier 330 having a lower density may be provided based on this case.
Referring to fig. 5, a display panel 400 according to another embodiment of the invention includes a display layer group 410. The display layer group 410 may include a substrate 411, a plurality of light emitting pixels 412 disposed on the substrate 411, and an encapsulation layer 413 for encapsulating the light emitting pixels 412. The display layer group 410 is covered with two or more membranes 420. The film 420 may be a polarizer 421 and a cover 422. An optical adhesive layer 430 is disposed between two adjacent diaphragms 420 and bonded to the diaphragms 420. The optical adhesive layer 430 includes an optical adhesive 431 and a barrier 432 for blocking at least a portion of the optical adhesive 431, and the barrier 432 is embedded in the optical adhesive 431.
The display layer group 410 has a light-emitting region, and an orthographic projection of the barrier 432 is deviated from the light-emitting region. Specifically, the light-emitting region of the display layer group 410 refers to a region where the light-emitting pixels 412 are provided in the display layer group 410. In order to avoid the influence of the blocking body 432 on the light emitted by the light-emitting pixel 412, the orthographic projection of the blocking body 432 is deviated from the light-emitting region. The orthographic projection here refers to the projection of the barrier 432 in the stacking direction of the display panel 400. The display panel 400 can prevent the thickness of the optical adhesive layer 430 from refracting the light, thereby ensuring the display effect of the display panel 400.
In addition to the above embodiments, the material of the barrier is a cured UV paste. On one hand, the cured UV adhesive has certain hardness and can block the flow of the optical adhesive; on the other hand, the light transmittance of the cured UV adhesive is better, and the light-emitting performance is not influenced.
The material of the barrier is not limited to this, and other materials having a certain hardness and light transmittance may be used. For example, transparent polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, or the like.
In addition, in the display panel of the invention, the projection of the barrier on the surface of the optical adhesive layer can be circular, strip-shaped or square. Of course, other shapes are possible. For example, the projection of the barrier on the surface of the optical cement layer may be in a shape of a mesh frame or a dendrite.
According to the display panel adopting the technical scheme, the blocking body is embedded in the optical adhesive, so that when the display panel is bent, the blocking body blocks the flow of the optical adhesive at the adjacent position, the stacking thickness of the optical adhesive is reduced, the stacking degree of the optical adhesive can be reduced, the optical adhesive is prevented from forming wrinkles when the display panel is bent, poor display is avoided, and the display panel is beneficial to application. In addition, the stress of the display panel during bending can be effectively released, and the bending radius can be increased.
The invention also provides a manufacturing method of the display panel, which comprises the following steps:
forming an optical adhesive layer on one film of the display panel, and then attaching another film on the optical adhesive layer to obtain the display panel; the optical adhesive layer comprises optical adhesive and a barrier body used for separating at least part of the optical adhesive, and the barrier body is embedded into the optical adhesive.
On the basis of the foregoing embodiment, the method for manufacturing a display panel includes the steps of:
s10, forming a barrier for blocking at least part of the optical glue on a film of the display panel to obtain the film with the barrier.
The operation of forming a barrier for blocking at least part of the optical adhesive on a film of the display panel is as follows: a barrier for blocking at least a portion of the optical adhesive is formed on a film of the display panel by using a screen printing, Ink Jet Printing (IJP) or dispensing (Dispenser) process.
S20, forming optical cement on the diaphragm with the barrier, and then attaching another diaphragm to obtain a display panel; wherein, the optical cement is abutted with the diaphragms on the two sides.
Wherein, a coating process can be adopted to form an optical cement precursor on the membrane with the barrier body, and then the optical cement precursor is cured to obtain the optical cement. Specifically, a slit coating apparatus may be used for coating. The curing can be carried out by irradiation of a low-pressure mercury lamp, a high-pressure mercury lamp or a metal halogen lamp.
On the basis of the foregoing embodiment, the method for manufacturing a display panel includes the steps of:
s100, providing an optical adhesive layer module, wherein the optical adhesive layer module comprises a heavy release film layer, a light release film layer and an optical adhesive layer positioned between the heavy release film layer and the light release film layer; the optical adhesive layer comprises an optical adhesive and a barrier body for separating at least part of the optical adhesive, and the barrier body is embedded in the optical adhesive.
Preferably, the method for manufacturing the optical adhesive layer module comprises the following steps:
s110, forming a barrier body for blocking at least part of the optical adhesive on the heavy release film layer to obtain the heavy release film layer with the barrier body.
In one embodiment, the operation of forming the barrier on the heavy release film layer to block at least part of the optical adhesive is as follows: adopts the UV glue mode of IJP spraying and silk-screen printing, and reaches 1000mw/cm through a metal halide lamp2~3000mw/cm2And (3) curing to form the barrier with the thickness of 10-100 mu m under the illumination (the wavelength is 300-400 nm).
S120, forming optical cement on the heavy release film layer with the barrier, and attaching the light release film layer to obtain an optical cement layer module; wherein, the optical cement is abutted with the heavy release film layer and the light release film layer on the two sides.
The operation of forming the optical cement on the heavy release film layer with the barrier body of one embodiment is as follows: and forming an optical adhesive precursor on the heavy release film layer with the barrier by adopting a coating process, and curing to obtain the optical adhesive with the thickness of 30-150 mu m.
Preferably, the thickness of the optical cement is 10 μm to 50 μm greater than that of the barrier.
S200, removing the heavy release film layer and the light release film layer, and attaching the optical adhesive layer between two adjacent films of the module structure to obtain the display panel.
This embodiment can with optical adhesive layer attached between adjacent diaphragm can, the operation is more convenient.
By applying the manufacturing method of the display panel, disclosed by the technical scheme of the invention, as the blocking body is embedded in the optical cement, when the display panel is bent, the blocking body blocks the flow of the optical cement at the adjacent position, and the stacking thickness of the optical cement is reduced, so that the stacking degree of the optical cement can be reduced, the optical cement is prevented from forming wrinkles when the display panel is bent, poor display is avoided, and the application is facilitated. In addition, the stress of the display panel during bending can be effectively released, and the bending radius can be increased.
The invention also provides a display device of an embodiment, which comprises the display panel.
According to the display device adopting the technical scheme, the blocking body is embedded in the optical cement in the display panel, when the display panel is bent, the blocking body blocks the flow of the optical cement at the adjacent position, and the stacking thickness of the optical cement is reduced, so that the stacking degree of the optical cement can be reduced, the optical cement is prevented from forming wrinkles when the display panel is bent, poor display is avoided, and the display device is beneficial to application. In addition, the stress of the display panel during bending can be effectively released, and the bending radius can be increased.
The technical features of the embodiments described above may be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the technical features in the embodiments described above are not described, but should be considered as being within the scope of the present specification as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features.
The above-mentioned embodiments only express several embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but not construed as limiting the scope of the invention. It should be noted that, for a person skilled in the art, several variations and modifications can be made without departing from the inventive concept, which falls within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present patent shall be subject to the appended claims.