The present application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202210320435.9, filed on Mar. 29, 2022, the content of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and, particularly, relates to a display panel and a display apparatus.
With increasing display requirements of consumers, the full-screen display has become a research focus. The full-screen display has a high screen-to-body ratio, which can greatly improve the user experience.
When realizing full-screen display, since abundant signal lines, circuits and the like are provided at a lower border of the display panel, the design of the lower border is an important topic. In the related art, cracking and warping of at least one layer occur in the lower border of the full-screen, which causes binding pins close to an edge of the lower border to bear the brunt.
In a first aspect of the present disclosure, a display panel is provided. The display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of binding pins, and a plurality of insulating layers. The substrate has a display region and a binding region that are arranged along a first direction. The plurality of binding pins is provided on a side of the substrate and located in the binding region of the substrate, and the first direction intersects with the second direction. The plurality of insulating layers arranged on a same side of the substrate as the plurality of binding pins. The at least one insulating layer of the plurality of insulating layers each includes at least one first aperture provided at a side of the binding region away from the display region. An orthographic projection of one of the at least one first aperture on the substrate overlaps with an orthographic projection of one of the plurality of binding pins on the substrate in the first direction.
In a second aspect of the present disclosure, a display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel. The display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of binding pins, and a plurality of insulating layers. The substrate has a display region and a binding region that are arranged along a first direction. The plurality of binding pins is provided on a side of the substrate and located in the binding region of the substrate, and the first direction intersects with the second direction. The plurality of insulating layers arranged on a same side of the substrate as the plurality of binding pins. The at least one insulating layer of the plurality of insulating layers each includes at least one first aperture provided at a side of the binding region away from the display region. An orthographic projection of one of the at least one first aperture on the substrate overlaps with an orthographic projection of one of the plurality of binding pins on the substrate in the first direction.
In order to better illustrate technical solutions of embodiments of the present disclosure, the accompanying drawings used in embodiments are briefly described below. The drawings described below are merely a part of the embodiments of the present disclosure. Based on these drawings, those skilled in the art can obtain other drawings.
In order to better understand the technical solutions of the present disclosure, the embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
It should be clear that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present disclosure, but not all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present disclosure, other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure.
The terms used in the embodiments of the present disclosure are only for the purpose of describing specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the present disclosure. As used in the embodiments of this application and the appended claims, the singular forms “a/an” “the” and “said” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.
It should be understood that the term “and/or” used in this document is only an association relationship to describe the associated objects, indicating that there can be three relationships, for example, A and/or B, which can indicate that A alone, A and B, and B alone. The character “I” in this document generally indicates that the related objects are an “or” relationship.
In the present disclosure, it should be understood that words such as “basically”, “approximately”, “about”, “substantially” and “generally” described in the claims and embodiments of the present disclosure refer to a value within a reasonable technological operating ranges or tolerance ranges, which can be generally approved and is not a precise value.
It should be understood that although the terms ‘first’, ‘second’ and ‘third’ can be used in the present disclosure to describe signal lines and pins, these signal lines and pins should not be limited to these terms. These terms are used only to distinguish signal lines and pins from each other. For example, without departing from the scope of the embodiments of the present disclosure, a first signal line can also be referred to as a second signal line. Similarly, the second signal line can also be referred to as the first signal line.
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The display region AA and the binding region B1 are arranged along a first direction Y. In some embodiments, after the binding pins 20 are bound to the integrated circuit board, the binding pins 20 can transmit signals between the integrated circuit board and pixels. In other embodiments, after the binding pins 20 are bound to the flexible circuit board, the binding pins 20 can transmit signals between the flexible circuit board and touch electrode.
The binding pins 20 are provided on a side of the substrate 10 and located in the binding region B1 of the substrate 10. Multiple binding pins 20 in the binding region B1 are arranged along a second direction X. The first direction Y intersects with the second direction X. For example, as shown in
The display panel includes multiple insulating layers 30 that are provided at a same side of the substrate 10 as the binding pins 20. Exemplarily, only one insulating layer 30 is shown in
At least one insulating layer 30 of the multiple insulating layers in the display panel includes a first aperture 40 provided at a side of the binding region B1 away from the display region AA. There is at least one first aperture 40 in the insulating layer 30. The first aperture 40 is provided at a side of the binding region B1 away from the display region AA, so that an orthographic projection of the first apertures 40 on the substrate 10 is located at a side of an orthographic projection of the binding pin 20 on the substrate 10 away from the display region AA.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the orthographic projection of the first aperture 40 on the substrate 10 overlaps with the orthographic projection of the binding pin 20 on the substrate 10 in the first direction Y. That is, along the first direction Y, the orthographic projection of the first aperture 40 on the substrate 10 overlaps with the orthographic projection of the binding pin 20 on the substrate 10.
When the display panel is bound to the integrated circuit board or the flexible circuit board, or when a pressure test and temperature shock test are performed on the display panel, and after a mother board is cut to form a display panel, the insulating layer close to the binding region B1 can be cracked and warped, which results in cracking and warping of the binding pins 20 and thus results in staggering after the binding. In display panels with narrow borders, the above problems are more prominent.
In a process of analyzing the above problems, when cracking and warping occur in the insulating layer 30 close to the binding region B1, cracking and warping also occur close to the edge of the display panel, and are also continuous same as the cracking and warping close to the binding region B1. Therefore, it can be deduced that the starting position of cracking and warping of the insulating layer 30 close to the binding region B1 is actually located at the edge of the display panel.
In the embodiments of the present disclosure, by providing the first aperture 40 in the insulating layer 30 provided in the region of the binding pin 20 away from the display region AA, when cracking and warping in the region of the insulating layer 20 corresponding to the edge of the display panel extend toward the binding region B1, the cracking and warping of the insulating layer 30 can be stopped at the first aperture 40. That is, a path of the cracking and warping of the region of the insulating layer 30 corresponding to the edge of the display panel, extending toward the binding pins 20 through a side of the binding pins close to the edge of the display panel, is cut off. Meanwhile, if a path of the cracking and warping of the insulating layer 30 extends from the edge region of the display panel to the inside, the pass can bypass the first aperture 40. That is, the extending path of the cracking and warping of the insulating layer 30 is lengthened before reaching the binding pins 20, so that the probability of cracking and warping of the insulating layer 30 reaching the binding pins 20 is greatly reduced.
The first aperture 40 in the display panel can block the warping at the edge of the display panel from extending toward the binding pin 20, so that the flatness of the binding pin 20 can be achieved, thereby improving the yield of binding between the display panel and the integrated circuit board/the flexible circuit board.
As can be seen from the above analysis of the technical problems, the cracking and warping of the insulating layer 30 are caused by the uniform binding pressure and uniform cutting stress in the vicinity of the binding pins 20 in the binding region. With the configuration where the first apertures 40 are provided close to the binding pins 20 and the starting position of the cracking and warping, the cracking and warping can be avoided.
In some embodiments, the insulating layer 30 in which the first aperture 40 is provided can be an insulating layer extending from the display region AA to the non-display region BB, and can include a portion provided in the binding region B1.
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After analyzing the problem of warping of the insulating layer 30 close to the binding region B1, it can be concluded that the warping layer is in the inorganic insulating layer. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the first aperture 40 is provided in the inorganic insulating layer where the binding pins 20 is located can improve the yield of binding between the display panel and the integrated circuit board/the flexible circuit board.
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In some embodiments, the first apertures 40 are provided in more insulating layers 30, which can block the warping at the edge of the display panel from extending toward the binding pins 20.
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In the embodiments, the first apertures 40 are provided in the insulating layers 30 above and under the layer of the binding pin 20, respectively. On the one hand, the first aperture 40 is provided in the insulating layer 30 under the layer of the binding pin 20, so that the binding pin 20 has a flat bearing surface. On another hand, the first aperture 40 is provided in the insulating layer 30 above the layer of the binding pin 20, so that when cracking and warping occur in the insulating layer 30 fixed to the integrated circuit board/the flexible circuit board due to uneven bonding stress, the cracking and warping of the insulating layer 30 under the layer of the binding pin 20 can be avoided and cracking and warping of the binding pins 20 can be avoided.
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In some embodiments of the present disclosure, when the binding pin 20 is formed by a portion of a conductive layer, this portion can be provided in a same layer as any one of the gate 52, the source 53, the drain 54, and the second electrode plate 62.
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In some embodiments of the present disclosure, when the binding pin 20 is formed by portions in at least two conductive layers, one of the at least two conductive layers can include any one of the gate 52, the source 53, the drain 54, and the second electrode plate 62, and another one of the at least two conductive layers can also include any one of the gate 52, the source 53, the drain 54, and the second electrode plate 62.
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In some embodiments, the insulating layer 30 including the first aperture 40 is at least one of the gate insulating layer 31/30, the intermediate insulating layer 32/32a, the interlayer dielectric layer 32/32b, the passivation layer 33/33a, or the planarization layer 33/33b.
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In a process of patterning the conductive layer, the residue of the conductive layer is likely to be generated in and around the first aperture 40. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, along the first direction Y, the binding pin 20 overlaps with the first aperture 40, and a part of a region between adjacent binding pins 20 does not overlap with the first aperture 40, so that the probability generating the residue of the conductive layer between the adjacent binding pins 20 due to the first aperture 40 is reduced, thereby avoiding the risk of short circuit between the adjacent binding pins 20 due to the residual of the conductive layer.
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By arranging the first apertures 40 whose orthographic projections communicate with each other, the cracking and warping of the insulating layer 30 in the first direction Y can be blocked from extending from the edge of the display panel to the binding pin 20.
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In the display panel provided by the present disclosure, the orthographic projection of the first aperture 40 on the substrate 10 has a shape of at least one of a broken line, a curved line, a straight line, or a point. For example, as shown in
In some embodiments, the orthographic projections of the first apertures 40 in the display panel on the substrate 10 can have one or more of the above shapes.
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In some embodiments, the orthographic projections of the first apertures 40 on the substrate 10, which overlap with an edge of the binding region B1 away from the display region AA have a shape of a straight line. In some embodiments, the number of the first apertures 40 overlapping with the edge of the binding region B1 away from the display region AA is more than one, and the one or more first apertures 40 communicate with each other. These first apertures 40 form a large horizontal groove structure, which can reduce the risk of cracking and warping of the insulating layer at the edge of the display panel.
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In some embodiments, an orthographic projection of the second aperture 40a on the substrate 10 overlap with an orthographic projection of a gap formed between adjacent binding pins 20 on the substrate 10 in the first direction Y. That is, along the first direction Y, the orthographic projection of at least a part of the second aperture 40a on the substrate 10 is located at a side of the gap between adjacent binding pins 20 away from the display region AA.
At least a part of the first aperture 40 is provided at a side of the binding pin 20 away from the display region AA, and at least a part of the second aperture 40a is provided in the gap between the binding pins 20, so that the first aperture 40 and the second aperture 40a can block the warping of the insulating layer of the display panel from extending along the first direction Y. Multiple first apertures 40 arranged along the second direction X can be dispersedly arranged to avoid the risk of electrical conduction between the binding pins 20 caused by the residue of the conductive layers close to the first aperture 40.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the at least one insulating layer 30 including the second apertures 40a is the at least one insulating layer 30 including the first apertures 40. That is, the first aperture 40 and the second aperture 40a can be simultaneously located in one of the insulating layers 30, and the first aperture 40 and the second aperture 40a can be simultaneously formed during the process of manufacturing the insulating layers 30.
For example, when the gate insulating layer 31/30 includes the first aperture 40, it can also include the second aperture 40a. When the intermediate insulating layer 32/32a includes the first aperture 40, it can also include the second aperture 40a. When the interlayer dielectric layer 32/32b includes the first aperture 40, it can also include the second aperture 40a. When the passivation layer 33/33a includes the first aperture 40, it can also include the second aperture 40a. When the planarization layer 33/33b includes the first aperture 40, it can also include the second aperture 40a.
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In some embodiments where the display panel includes the second apertures 40a, the second aperture 40a is located between adjacent pull-down metal lines 200 in the second direction X.
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Exemplarily, the second direction X is parallel to a row direction, multiple binding pins 20 in the binding region B1 are arranged along the row direction, and the third aperture 40b and the binding pin 20 are arranged along the row direction.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, with the third aperture 40b, the cracking and warping of the display panel can be blocked from extending toward the binding pin 20 along a direction substantially same as the second direction X.
In some embodiments, the insulating layer 30 including the third aperture 40b can be the insulating layer 30 including the first aperture 40, or can be the insulating layer 30 including the second aperture 40a. That is, the first aperture 40 and the third aperture 40b can be simultaneously located in one of the multiple insulating layers 30, or the second aperture 40a and the third aperture 40b can be simultaneously located in one of the multiple insulating layers 30.
For example, when the gate insulating layer 31/30 includes the first aperture 40, it can also include the third aperture 40b. When the intermediate insulating layer 32/32a includes the first aperture 40, it can also include the third aperture 40b. When the interlayer dielectric layer 32/32b includes the first aperture 40, it can also include the third aperture 40b. When the passivation layer 33/33a includes the first aperture 40, it can also include the third aperture 40b. When the planarization layer 33/33b includes the first aperture 40, it can also include the third aperture 40b.
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In some embodiments, multiple first apertures 40 arranged along the second direction X communicates with each other, and then communicate with the third apertures 40b, so that the first apertures 40 and the third apertures 40b form a structure for semi-enclosing the binding pins in the binding region B1, so that the first apertures 40 and the third apertures 40b can jointly block the cracking and apertures in the insulating layer 30 from extending toward the binding pins 20 along each of the first direction Y and the second direction X.
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If the dummy pin is bound to and welded to neither the integrated circuit board nor the flexible circuit board, the dummy pin can bear part of the binding stress in the process of binding and welding the binding pins 20 to the integrated circuit board and the flexible circuit board, thereby reducing the cracking and warping of the layers caused by the binding stress.
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The present disclosure provides a display apparatus. As shown in
In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the first apertures 40 in the insulating layers 30 is provided in the region of the binding pin 20 away from the display region AA, so that the first aperture 40 can block the cracking and warping at the edge of the display panel from extending toward the binding pins 20, thereby ensuring the flatness of the binding pins 20, and thus improving the yield of binding between the display panel and the integrated circuit board/the flexible circuit board in the display apparatus.
The above are merely some embodiments of the present disclosure, which, as mentioned above, are not intended to limit the present disclosure. Within the principles of the present disclosure, any modification, equivalent substitution, improvement shall fall into the protection scope of the present disclosure.
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202210320435.9 | Mar 2022 | CN | national |