The application is a US National Stage of International Application No. PCT/CN2021/093439, filed on May 12, 2021, which claims the benefit of priority to Chinese Patent Application 202010605988.X, filed with the China National Intellectual Property Administration on Jun. 29, 2020 and entitled “DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS”, which is incorporated in its entirety herein by reference.
The disclosure relates to the technical field of display, and in particular to a display panel and a display apparatus.
Liquid crystal displays (LCDs), which have gradually replaced traditional cathode ray tube displays (CRTs) in some applications due to advantages of low radiation, small size and low power consumption, are widely applied to notebook computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), flat panel televisions, mobile phones, etc.
The present disclosure provides a display panel. The display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other, where a display area and a frame area surrounding the display area are arranged between the second substrate and the first substrate; a color resist structure in the frame area on a side of the second substrate facing the first substrate and surrounding the display area, where the color resist structure includes a first black matrix and a first color resist portion arranged in stack; and a plurality of support bars surrounding the display area, where each of the support bars stands between the color resist structure and the first substrate.
In some embodiments, lengths of the support bars in a first direction sequentially decrease in a direction from the frame area to the display area.
In some embodiments, the support bars include a plurality of support bar groups sequentially arranged in the first direction, and the support bars of every two adjacent support bar groups are arranged alternatively in the first direction.
In some embodiments, the plurality of support bars surrounding the display area are interrupted at corners of the frame area.
In some embodiments, the first color resist portion is of an integrated single-color structure.
In some embodiments, the first color resist portion includes: a plurality of different single-color color resist portions sequentially arranged and in connection.
In some embodiments, an alignment film for alignment in a first direction is arranged between a layer with the first color resist portion and a layer with the support bars. A length of each support bar in the first direction is greater than that in a direction perpendicular to the first direction.
In some embodiments, the side of the second substrate facing the first substrate is provided with a plurality of first auxiliary spacers in the display area; and the support bars and the first auxiliary spacers are located in the same layer and made of the same material.
In some embodiments, the second substrate is further provided with a plurality of second color resist portions in the same layer as the first color resist portion and between an area in which the first color resist portion is located and the display area, second black matrices between adjacent second color resist portions, and second auxiliary spacers on sides of the second color resist portions facing the first substrate. Orthographic projections of the second black matrices on the first substrate cover orthographic projections of the second auxiliary spacers on the first substrate.
In some embodiments, the second auxiliary spacers and the first auxiliary spacers are located in the same layer and made of the same material.
In some embodiments, the side of the second substrate facing the first substrate is provided a plurality of main spacers in the display area; the side of the second substrate facing the first substrate is provided with a barrier wall surrounding the first color resist portion in the frame area, and the barrier wall is interrupted at corners; and the barrier wall and the main spacers are located in the same layer and made of the same material.
In some embodiments, a minimum length of the support bar adjacent to the barrier wall in the first direction is greater than a maximum length of the main spacer in the first direction.
In some embodiments, the frame area between the second substrate and the first substrate is further provided with a sealant surrounding the barrier wall.
In some embodiments, a planarization layer is arranged between the layer with the first color resist portion and a layer with the alignment film.
In some embodiments, orthographic projections of the support bars on the first substrate each is located in an area in which single-layer metal of the first substrate is located; or orthographic projections of the support bars on the first substrate each is located in an area in which stacked metal of the first substrate is located.
An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes the display panel provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure.
In order to make the objectives, technical solutions, and advantages of the embodiments of the present disclosure more clear, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure will be clearly and completely described below in combination with the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure. Obviously, the embodiments described are merely some rather than all of the embodiments of the present disclosure. On the basis of the described embodiments of the present disclosure, all other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art without making inventive efforts fall within the scope of protection of the present disclosure.
Unless defined otherwise, technical or scientific terms used in the present disclosure should be of ordinary meaning as understood by a person of ordinary skill in the art to which the present disclosure pertains. Words “first”, “second”, etc. used in the present disclosure do not denote any order, quantity or importance, but are merely used to distinguish between different components. Word “comprising”, “encompassing” or the like is intended to mean that an element or item in front of the word encompasses elements or items that present behind the word and equivalents thereof, but does not exclude other elements or items. Word “connection”, “connected” or the like is not limited to physical or mechanical connections, but may include an electrical connection, whether direct or indirect. “Upper”, “lower”, “left”, “right”, etc. are merely used to indicate a relative position relation, which may also change accordingly when an absolute position of a described object changes.
To keep the following description of the embodiments of the present disclosure clear and concise, the detailed descriptions of known functions and components are omitted from the present disclosure.
In a design of a conventional display panel, a barrier wall (polystyrene (PS) wall) is arranged in a peripheral area outside a display area (AA area), to ensure peripheral support. However, in a design of a conventional PS wall, a gap between an upper substrate and a lower substrate in the peripheral area is relatively large. When the peripheral area is deformed under stress, the peripheral support is weak, a deformation quantity is large, and a problem of light leakage in the peripheral area may occur.
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In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the frame area BB is provided with the color resist structure 3 surrounding the display area AA, the color resist structure 3 includes the first black matrix 31 and the first color resist portion 32 arranged in stack, and each of the support bars 4 stands between the color resist structure 3 and the first substrate 11, such that a height of each support bar 4 in the frame area BB and a height of the first black matrix 31 and a height of the first color resist portion 32 are added, so as to solve the problem of lack of effective support due to a gap between the first substrate 11 and the second substrate 21 in the frame area BB being large. In the case of a conventional display panel, when a barrier wall in a frame area is used for support, the barrier wall in the frame area and main spacers in a display area are integrally formed and have the same height, but the main spacers in the display area and the barrier wall in the frame area are at different positions (distribution of a film layer at different positions is different). Thus, a second substrate may be in contact with a first substrate by means of the main spacers in the display area to effectively support display, but the second substrate may not be in contact with the first substrate by means of the barrier wall in the frame area such that the frame area may not be effectively supported, and further the frame area will be deformed under stress, thereby causing a problem of light leakage. Compared with the conventional display panel, the display panel in an embodiment of the present disclosure allows the effective support in the frame area by arranging the color resist structure and the support bars in the frame area, and therefore the problem of light leakage in the peripheral area of the display panel is solved.
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It should be noted that in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the color resist structure 3 includes the first black matrix 31 and the first color resist portion 32 arranged in stack, and each of the support bars 4 stands between the color resist structure 3 and the first substrate 11, that is, since the frame area BB is not used for display, an orthographic projection of the first color resist portion 32 on the first substrate 11 may cover orthographic projections of the support bars 4 on the first substrate 11, and the first color resist portion and the support bars may be arranged right opposite to each other in a direction perpendicular to the first substrate 11. The first color resist portion 32 and the support bars 4 are arranged in a mode different from the color resists (such as a red color resist portion, a green color resist portion or a blue color resist portion) and the spacers (the main spacers or the auxiliary spacers) in the display area AA. In the display area AA, positions of the color resists are required to be used for display, thus, the orthographic projections of the spacers in the display area AA on the first substrate 11 and the orthographic projections of the color resists on the first substrate are required to be arranged alternatively, so as to prevent the spacers from affecting display.
In some embodiments, the display panel may be a liquid crystal display panel. The second substrate 21 may be a color film substrate, the first substrate 11 may be an array substrate, the color resist structure 3 is mad on the color film substrate, and the support bars 4 may be made on the second substrate 21. That is, during manufacturing, the color resist structure 3 and the support bars 4 are made on the color film substrate, and then the color film substrate with the support bars 4 and the color resist structure 3 are aligned with the array substrate. Alternatively, when the color resist structure 3 is on the color film substrate, the support bars 4 may be on the array substrate, that is, during manufacturing, the color resist structure 3 is made on the color film substrate, the support bars 4 are made on the array substrate, and then the color film substrate with the color resist structure 3 is aligned with the array substrate with the support bars 4. Or, the second substrate 21 may be an array substrate, the first substrate 11 may be a color film substrate, the color resist structure 3 is on the array substrate, and the support bars 4 may be on the array substrate. During manufacturing, the array substrate with the support bars 4 and the color resist structure 3 is aligned with the color film substrate. Alternatively, the color resist structure 3 is on the array substrate, the support bars 4 may be on the color film substrate. During manufacturing, the color resist structure 3 is made on the array substrate, the support bars 4 are made on the color film substrate, and then the color film substrate with the support bars 4 is aligned with the array substrate with the color resist structure 3.
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In some embodiments, the second auxiliary spacers 62 and the first auxiliary spacers 61 are in the same layer and made of the same material. In some embodiments, the second auxiliary spacers 62 may be in the same shape and have the same height as the first auxiliary spacers 61. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the second auxiliary spacers 62 and the first auxiliary spacers 61 are in the same layer and made of the same material, such that the second auxiliary spacers 62 may be formed when the first auxiliary spacers 61 in the display area are made, thereby simplifying a process of making a display panel.
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In some embodiments, orthographic projections of the support bars 4 on the first substrate 11 are located in an area in which single-layer metal 12 of the first substrate 11 is located, which is as shown in
An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes the display panel provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure.
Embodiments of the present disclosure have the following beneficial effects: in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the frame area is provided with the color resist structure surrounding the display area, the color resist structure includes the first black matrix and the first color resist portion arranged in stack, and each of the support bars stands between the color resist structure and the first substrate, as such, a height of each support bar in the frame area and a height of the first black matrix and a height of the first color resist portion are added, so as to solve the problem lack of effective support due to a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate in the frame area being large a. In the case of a conventional display panel, when a barrier wall in a frame area is used for support, the barrier wall in the frame area and main spacers in a display area are integrally formed and have the same height, but the main spacers in the display area and the barrier wall in the frame area are at different positions (distribution of a film layer at different positions is different). Thus, a second substrate may be in contact with a first substrate by means of the main spacers in the display area to effectively support display, but the second substrate may not be in contact with the first substrate by means of the barrier wall in the frame area such that the frame area may not be effectively supported, and further the frame area will be deformed when pressed, thereby causing a problem of light leakage. Compared with the conventional display panel, the display panel in an embodiment of the present disclosure allows the effective support in the frame area by arranging the color resist structure and the support bars in the frame area, and therefore the problem of peripheral light leakage of the display panel is solved.
Obviously, a person skilled in the art can make various amendments and variations to the present disclosure without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. In this way, it is intended that the present disclosure also encompasses these amendments and variations if these amendments and variations to the present disclosure fall within the scope of the claims of the present disclosure and the equivalents thereof.
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