CN112490273B

CN112490273B - Display module and electronic equipment

Info

Publication number: CN112490273B
Application number: CN202011373077.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 马伟欣
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-11-30
Filing date: 2020-11-30
Publication date: 2023-04-18
Anticipated expiration: 2040-11-30
Also published as: CN112490273A

Abstract

The application discloses display module assembly and electronic equipment, display module assembly includes: a display area comprising a first edge portion and a second edge portion of a profiled contour; the first edge portion is a wiring area, and the second edge portion is a virtual pixel area. This application is through not setting up at second marginal portion and walking the line region, can compress the black limit of second marginal portion effectively to the outward appearance effect of whole screen has been promoted.

Description

Display module and electronic equipment

Technical Field

This application belongs to display screen technical field, concretely relates to display module assembly and electronic equipment.

Background

On an AMOLED (Active Matrix/Organic Light Emitting Diode) display screen, a full-screen is required, and in order to place a front camera on the front side of the screen, various special-shaped openings, such as a bang, a water drop, etc., need to be formed on the screen. The design can be good, and meanwhile, a placing space is provided for the front camera while the integrity of the screen is guaranteed. As shown in fig. 1, the front camera is placed in the shaped area. The black border around the shaped screen mainly comprises two width areas A and B as shown in figure 1. The width area A is an area occupied by a power supply cathode signal bus (VSS), an Anode pattern (Anode) and frame glue (Seal) in the AMOLED Panel design; the B width area is the Dummy (some unlit pixels at the edge of the Panel design required by the process) design footprint.

In the process of implementing the present application, the inventor finds that at least the following problems exist in the prior art:

the area A and the area B in the figure 1 are the black edge width of the whole special-shaped screen, so that the black edge around the special-shaped screen is wider, and along with the fact that the appearance requirement of a consumer on the whole mobile phone is more and more strict, the appearance effect of the whole mobile phone is greatly influenced by the wider black edge around the special-shaped screen.

Disclosure of Invention

The application aims at providing a display module assembly and electronic equipment, solves among the prior art at least that the black border around the dysmorphism screen is than wide, one of the problem of the outward appearance effect of very big influence complete machine.

In order to solve the technical problem, the present application is implemented as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a display module, including:

a display area comprising a first edge portion and a second edge portion of a profiled contour; the first edge portion is a wiring area, and the second edge portion is a virtual pixel area.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an electronic device, including the display module according to the first aspect.

In an embodiment of the application, a display area of a display module comprises a first edge, wherein the first edge comprises a first edge part and a second edge part with a special-shaped outline; through setting up first marginal portion to walk the line region, set up second marginal portion to virtual pixel region, cancelled second marginal portion walk the line region, can compress second marginal portion's black limit effectively to the outward appearance effect of whole screen has been promoted.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a display area of a conventional display module

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a display area of a display module according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line D-D of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along line E-E of FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a second schematic view of a display area of a display module according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a sectional view taken along line F-F in fig. 5.

Reference numerals:

1-a substrate body; 2-a virtual pixel layer; 3-a first organic planarization layer; 4-a second organic planarization layer; 5-a first frame glue layer; 6-a second frame glue layer; 7-an electrode layer; 8-signal routing layer.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar functions throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings are illustrative only for the purpose of explaining the present invention, and are not to be construed as limiting the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

The features of the terms first and second in the description and in the claims of the present application may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of such features. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified. In addition, "and/or" in the specification and claims means at least one of connected objects, a character "/" generally means that a preceding and succeeding related objects are in an "or" relationship.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "width," "upper," "lower," "left," "right," "horizontal," "top," "inner," "outer," etc. indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, which are used for convenience in describing the present invention and for simplicity in description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "coupled" and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

The display module according to the embodiment of the invention is described below with reference to fig. 2 to 6.

As shown in fig. 2, the present invention provides a display module comprising a display area, the display area comprising a first edge, the first edge comprising a first edge portion and a second edge portion with a profiled contour; the first edge portion is a wiring area, the second edge portion is a virtual pixel area, and the first edge is located on one side of the display area.

Wherein, cut off the part on the basis of non-special-shaped screen, form the special-shaped outline edge of display area, the position that the part of cutting off corresponds is the area that is used for installing spare parts such as camera, earphone.

Illustratively, the first edge is located on the upper end side of the display area, the first edge portion corresponds to an a-width region on the upper end side in fig. 2, and the second edge portion corresponds to a B-width region on the upper end side in fig. 2. The second edge part is the edge of special-shaped screen, like the water droplet in water droplet screen, the bang screen and the corresponding marginal position of bang, first edge part and second edge part are located different straight lines.

In the above embodiment, not set up at dysmorphism screen edge (second marginal portion) and walk the line region, cancelled the line region of walking of current dysmorphism screen position department promptly, carry out circuit connection through the first marginal portion of second marginal portion both sides, can compress the black limit of second marginal portion effectively, reduce the black limit width of dysmorphism screen position to the outward appearance effect of whole screen has been promoted.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 2, the second edge portion is a curved edge, two ends of the second edge portion are connected to the two first edge portions, and the two first edge portions are located on the same straight line.

As shown in fig. 4, according to some embodiments of the invention, the second edge portion comprises: the liquid crystal display panel comprises a substrate body 1, and a virtual pixel layer 2, a first organic flat layer 3, a second organic flat layer 4 and a first frame glue layer 5 which are sequentially arranged on the substrate body 1; the virtual pixel layer 2 is a non-lighted pixel layer and is disposed at a side close to the display area.

The virtual pixel layer 2 is an area occupied by the Dummy area design, that is, some unlit pixels on the edge of the Panel design are part required by the process. The first organic flat layer 3 and the second organic flat layer 4 are both a layer of organic photoresist, wherein the first organic flat layer 3 is used for carrying out planarization treatment on the lower film layer (the basic body 1) to ensure the flatness on the flat layers. The first frame glue layer 5 is used for bonding the seal glue layers of upper and lower pane.

In this embodiment, since the second edge portion does not include the routing area, and the width of the first frame adhesive layer can be shortened after the routing area is cancelled, the width of the second edge portion is greatly reduced, and the width of the black border is effectively compressed. Wherein, the width scope of first frame glue film does: 300 microns to 400 microns.

As shown in fig. 3, according to some embodiments of the invention, the first edge portion comprises: the flat-type organic light-emitting diode comprises a substrate body 1, a signal wiring layer 8 arranged on the substrate body 1, a first organic flat layer 3 arranged on the signal wiring layer 8, an electrode layer 7 arranged on the first organic flat layer 3, a second organic flat layer 4 arranged on the electrode layer 7 and a second frame glue layer 6 arranged on the second organic flat layer 4.

In this embodiment, the signal wiring layer 8 is used to connect a VSS signal (power cathode signal) to a circuit formed by the electrode layer 8. The signal wiring layer 8 and the electrode layer 7 are subjected to an insulating process by the first organic planarization layer 3, and then are subjected to a planarization process by covering the second organic planarization layer 4.

Wherein, the signal routing layer 8 includes: the first titanium Ti metal layer, the aluminum Al metal layer and the second titanium Ti metal layer are sequentially stacked. The signal wiring layer 8 is used for wiring for transmitting VSS signals.

Wherein the electrode layer 7 comprises: the ITO layer, the silver Ag metal layer and the ITO layer are sequentially stacked. The electrode layer 7 is an Anode electrode layer (Anode pattern), and can realize a metal layer for transmitting a VSS signal from the signal wiring layer 8 to the cathode of the AMOLED.

As shown in fig. 5 and 6, according to further embodiments of the present invention, the first edge portion further includes a third edge portion located inside the display area, and the third edge portion has the same structure as the second edge portion.

As shown in fig. 6, the structure of the first edge portion and the third edge portion includes: the substrate comprises a substrate body 1, a signal wiring layer 8 and a virtual pixel layer 2 which are arranged on the substrate body 1, a first organic flat layer 3 which is arranged on the signal wiring layer 8 and the virtual pixel layer 2, an electrode layer 7 which is arranged on the first organic flat layer 3, a second organic flat layer 4 which is arranged on the electrode layer 7 and a second frame glue layer 6 which is arranged on the second organic flat layer 4.

Furthermore, the display area also comprises a second edge positioned at the left end of the display area, a third edge positioned at the right end of the display area and a fourth edge positioned at the lower end of the display area; the second edge, the third edge and the fourth edge all comprise fourth edge parts, namely corresponding to the A width area, and the fourth edge part has the same structure as the first edge part.

In an embodiment, at least one of the second edge, the third edge, and the fourth edge further comprises, as required by the design: and a fifth edge portion which is arranged at the inner side of the fourth edge portion and is close to the display area, namely, corresponds to the B width area, and the structure of the fifth edge portion is the same as that of the second edge portion.

Further, the embodiment of the application also provides an electronic device, which comprises the display module.

In this embodiment, the second edge portion of the display area of the electronic device is not provided with the routing area, so that the black edge of the second edge portion can be effectively compressed, and the appearance effect of the whole screen of the electronic device is improved.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an illustrative embodiment," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples" or the like mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

While embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined by the claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. A display module, comprising:

a display area comprising a first edge portion and a second edge portion of a profiled contour; the first edge part is a wiring area, the second edge part is a virtual pixel area, and no wiring is arranged on the second edge part;

the second edge portion includes: the display device comprises a substrate body, and a virtual pixel layer, a first organic flat layer, a second organic flat layer and a first frame glue layer which are arranged on the substrate body in sequence.

2. The display module of claim 1, wherein the dummy pixel layer is disposed on a side close to the display area.

3. The display module assembly of claim 2, wherein the width range of the first frame glue layer is: 300 microns to 400 microns.

4. The display module of claim 1, wherein the first edge portion comprises: the flat-type solar cell comprises a substrate body, a signal wiring layer arranged on the substrate body, a first organic flat layer arranged on the signal wiring layer, an electrode layer arranged on the first organic flat layer, a second organic flat layer arranged on the electrode layer and a second frame glue layer arranged on the second organic flat layer.

5. The display module of claim 4, wherein the signal routing layer comprises: the first titanium metal layer, the aluminum metal layer and the second titanium metal layer are sequentially stacked.

6. The display module of claim 4, wherein the electrode layer comprises: and the indium tin oxide layer, the silver metal layer and the indium tin oxide layer are sequentially stacked.

7. The display module of claim 1, wherein the first edge is located at an upper end of the display area.

8. The display module according to claim 7, wherein the second edge portion is a curved edge, and two ends of the second edge portion connect the two first edge portions, and the two first edge portions are located on the same straight line.

9. The display module according to claim 1, wherein the first edge portion further comprises a third edge portion located at an inner side of the display area, and the third edge portion has the same structure as the second edge portion.

10. An electronic device, comprising the display module according to any one of claims 1 to 9.