This application claims the priority of China Patent Application No. 201710980292.3, filed in China on Oct. 19, 2017, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and in particular, to a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device.
The OLED display device is a display device having self-luminous characteristics, which can be used for flexible display and can display a high-contrast picture in a state of low power consumption. However, an OLED light-emitting device in the OLED display device is easily affected by moisture such that the service life of the OLED display devices is affected.
The present disclosure provides following technical solution: a display panel, comprising: a base substrate, a package cover plate, which is disposed to be parallel to the base substrate, a light-emitting layer, which is disposed between the substrate and the package cover plate, and a main package part, which encapsulates a side surface of the base substrate and a side surface of the package cover plate.
The present disclosure also provides a manufacturing method of a display panel, comprising: providing a base substrate; forming a light-emitting layer on a surface of the base substrate; providing a package cover plate disposed to be parallel to the base substrate; using a main package part to encapsulate a side surface of the base substrate on which the light-emitting layer is formed and a side surface of the package cover plate together such that the light-emitting layer is located between the base substrate and the package cover plate.
The present disclosure also provides a display device comprising the display panel described above.
The drawings described herein are intended to provide a further understanding of the present disclosure, and are intended to be a part of the present disclosure. The illustrative embodiments in the present disclosure and the description thereof are illustration for the present disclosure and do not constitute a limitation to the present disclosure. In the drawing:
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure. It is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present disclosure, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a ordinary skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present disclosure without departing from the inventive scope are within the scope of the disclosure.
At present, a display panel in an OLED display device as shown in
The present disclosure provides at least a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device, which can reduce the probability of moisture entering between the base substrate and the package cover plate to a certain extent, thereby ensuring the service life of the OLED light-emitting device in the light-emitting layer. Specific embodiments of the present disclosure are described below in conjunction with the drawings.
Referring to
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the main package part 5 may include a first package portion 51 and a second package portion 52. The second package portion 52 is located between the base substrate 1 and the package cover plate 2. An upper surface of the second package portion 52 is in contact with the package cover plate 2, and a lower surface of the second package portion 52 is in contact with the base substrate 1. The first package portion 51 is respectively engaged with the side surface of the base substrate 1, the side surface of the package cover plate 2, and an outer-side surface of the second package portion 52.
A manufacturing method of a display panel provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure is as shown in
The main package part 5 may include a first package portion 51 and a second package portion 52. The first package portion 51 is respectively engaged with the side surface of the base substrate 1, the side surface of the package cover plate 2, and an outer-side surface of the second package portion 52. The second package portion 52 is located between the base substrate 1 and the package cover plate 2. An upper surface of the second package portion 52 is in contact with the package cover plate 2, and a lower surface of the second package portion 52 is in contact with the base substrate 1.
In the display panel provided by the above embodiment, the main package part 5 includes a first package portion 51 and a second package portion 52, and the second package portion 52 is located between the base substrate 1 and the package cover plate 2. The first package portion 51 is respectively engaged with the side surface of the base substrate 1, the side surface of the package cover plate 2, and an outer-side surface of the second package portion 52. Therefore, in the case where foreign matter is on the board surface of the base substrate 1 and/or the board surface of the package cover plate 2 such that the second package portion 52 cannot be completely fitted to the base substrate 1 and/or the package cover plate 2, the side surface of the base substrate 1 and the side surface of the package cover plate 2 are both parallel to the direction of gravity during packaging, so that foreign matter is difficult to adhere to the side surface of the base substrate 1 and the side surface of the package cover plate 2. Thereby, it is ensured that the first package portion 51 can be completely fitted to the side surface of the base substrate 1 and the side surface of the package cover plate 2. In addition, the first package portion 51 is respectively engaged with the side surface of the base substrate 1, the side surface of the package cover plate 2, and an outer-side surface of the second package portion 52. Therefore, the first package portion 51 can also protect the second package portion 52, so as to further reduce the probability of moisture entering between the base substrate 1 and the package cover plate 2, thereby the service life of the OLED display device in the light-emitting layer is prevented from being decreased.
Considering that the packaging material used in the main package part 5 is an encapsulant, the encapsulant needs to be heated during packaging, so that the inside of the encapsulant is prone to holes. Based on this, the width of the first package portion 51 in the above embodiment gradually increases and then gradually decreases from the base substrate 1 towards the package cover plate 2 in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate 1. A portion of the first package portion 51 having a maximum width is corresponding to the outer-side surface of the second package portion 52; and a width direction of the first package portion 51 is parallel to the base substrate 1. It can be understood that the width direction of the first package portion 51 herein is only required to be parallel to the substrate surface of the base substrate 1, and the orientation is not particularly limited. As shown in
It can be seen from the trend of the width of the first package portion 51 that: the portion of the first package portion 51 having the maximum width is corresponding to the outer-side surface of the second package portion 52. Therefore, it is possible to lengthen a path length of the external moisture contacting the second package portion 52, so as to further improve the moisture resistance of the first package portion 51. Since the width of the first package portion 51 gradually increases and then decreases along a direction from the base substrate 1 to the package cover plate 2 (i.e., from the base substrate 1 to the package cover plate 2 in the direction perpendicular to the base substrate 1), the closer the distance from the outer surface of the first package portion 51 to the second package portion 52, the greater the probability that the external moisture contacts the second package portion 52 through the first package portion 51; the longer the distance from the outer surface of the first package portion 51 to the second package portion 52, the smaller the probability that moisture contacts the second package portion 52 through the first package portion 51. Therefore, the width of the first package portion 51 in the embodiment of the present disclosure gradually increases and then gradually decreases from the base substrate 1 towards the package cover plate 2 in the direction perpendicular to the base substrate 1, so as to reduce the probability of the second package portion 52 contacting the moisture and reduce unnecessary material waste when forming the first package portion 51.
It can be known that the outer-side surface of the second package portion 52 in the above embodiment can be integrated with the first package portion 51, so that the fabrication of the main package part 5 can be completed at one time in the process of manufacturing the display panel.
As shown in
There may be a gap between the inner-side surface of the auxiliary package part 4 and the side surface of the light-emitting layer 3, or they may be in contact with each other.
Optionally, the inner-side surface of the auxiliary package part 4 is in contact with the side surface of the light-emitting layer 3 to position the light-emitting layer 3 by using the auxiliary package part 4, so as to prevent the light-emitting layer 3 from being displaced.
Furthermore, as shown in
The specific structure of the first limiting portion 40 and the second limiting portion 520 can be set according to actual conditions, for example, the first limiting portion 40 is a convex structure, and the second limiting portion 520 is a concave structure.
In order to completely eliminate the influence of moisture on the OLED light-emitting device in the light-emitting layer 3, a moisture absorbing layer 6 may be added to the display panel provided in the above embodiment so as to absorb the moisture in the display panel. The moisture absorbing layer 6 can be made of a water absorbing material such as a desiccant.
The first structure of the moisture absorbing layer 6: as shown in
When the main package part 5 and the auxiliary package part 4 are not completely insulated from moisture, the moisture absorbing layer 6 is capable of absorbing the moisture positioned between the base substrate 1 and the package cover plate 2. If moisture remains between the base substrate 1 and the package cover plate 2 during the packaging process, the moisture absorbing layer 6 can also be used to absorb moisture remaining between the base substrate 1 and the package cover plate 2 during the packaging process, so as to ensure the light-emitting layer between the base substrate 1 and the package cover plate 2 is in a dry condition.
The second structure of the moisture absorbing layer 6: as shown in
It should be noted that, in the first structure of the above embodiment, the moisture absorbing layer 6 is disposed between the surface of the light-emitting layer 3 facing away from the base substrate 1 and the package cover plate 2, so that the thickness of the display panel is increased. In comparison, in the second structure, the moisture absorbing layer 6 is located between the inner-side surface of the second package portion 52 and the outer-side surface of the auxiliary package part 4, so that the thickness of the display panel is not increased. In this case, the moisture that is not blocked by the main package part 5 can be absorbed to prevent moisture from contacting the auxiliary package part 4.
It should be noted that, in the above embodiment, the packaging material of both of the main package part 5 and the auxiliary package part 4 is a thermosetting encapsulant. Alternatively, it can also be a photocurable encapsulant or other packaging material.
In addition, in order to further block the moisture, as shown in
An outer-side surface of the water-oxygen barrier layer may face with an inner-side surface of the second package portion 52, and a surface of the water-oxygen barrier layer facing away from the arrayed OLED light-emitting device 31 faces with the package cover plate 2.
As shown in
The main package part may include a first package portion 51 and a second package portion 52. The first package portion 51 is respectively engaged with the side surface of the base substrate 1, the side surface of the package cover plate 2, and an outer-side surface of the second package portion 52. The second package portion 52 is located between the base substrate 1 and the package cover plate 2, an upper surface of the second package portion 52 is in contact with the package cover plate 2, and a lower surface of the second package portion 52 is in contact with the base substrate 1.
The beneficial effects of the manufacturing method of the display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure are the same as those provided by the above technical solutions, and are not described herein.
It should be noted that, as shown in
Particularly, the outer-side surface of the water-oxygen barrier layer faces with the inner-side surface of the second package portion 52, and a surface of the water-oxygen barrier layer facing away from the arrayed OLED light-emitting device 31 faces with the package cover plate 2.
Between the step S300 and the step S500 in the above embodiment, the manufacturing method of the display panel provided by the above embodiment further includes the step S400: encapsulating the base substrate 1 on which the light-emitting layer 3 is formed and the package cover plate 2 together by an auxiliary package part 4, such that an upper surface of the auxiliary package part 4 is in contact with the package cover plate 2, a lower surface of the auxiliary package part 4 is in contact with the base substrate 1, and an outer-side surface of the auxiliary package part 4 faces with an inner-side surface of the second package portion 52, and an inner-side surface of the auxiliary package part 4 faces with a side surface of the light-emitting layer 3.
Specifically, as shown in
When the base substrate 1 on which the light-emitting layer 3 is formed is packaged with the package cover plate 2 by using the auxiliary package part 4, before applying the encapsulant, the mold is disposed on the frame region of the surface of the base substrate 1 where the light-emitting layer 3 is formed; then, the encapsulant is applied. After the encapsulant is cured, the first limiting portions 40 can be formed.
Correspondingly, as shown in
In order to further isolate the moisture, in the step S200 in the above embodiment, after forming a light-emitting layer 3 on the surface of the base substrate 1, and before providing a package cover plate 2, the manufacturing method of a display panel further includes the following step:
Alternatively, the moisture absorbing layer 6 may be provided on the outer-side surface of the auxiliary package part 4 after the process of encapsulating the base substrate 1 on which the light-emitting layer 3 is formed and the package cover plate 2 together by the auxiliary package part 4 in step S400.
In the above case, as shown in
In the Step 400, after using the auxiliary package part 4 to encapsulate the base substrate 1 on which the light-emitting layer 3 is formed and the package cover plate 2 together, the manufacturing method of a display panel may further include the following steps (as shown in
In the above embodiment, using the main package part 5 to encapsulate the base substrate 1 on which the light-emitting layer 3 is formed and the package cover plate 2 together includes the following steps (as shown in
An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a display device, which includes the display panel provided by the above technical solutions.
The beneficial effects of the display device provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure are the same as those of the display panel provided by the above technical solutions, and are not described herein.
The display device provided by the above embodiment may be any product or component having a display function, such as a mobile phone, a tablet PC, a television, a display, a laptop, a digital photo frame, or a navigator.
In the description of the above embodiments, specific features, structures, materials or characteristics may be combined in any one or more embodiments or examples in any suitable manner.
The above description is only the specific embodiment of the present disclosure, but the scope of the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive modifications or substitutions within the technical scope of the present disclosure, which should be within the protection scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, the protection scope of the present disclosure should be determined by the scope of the claims.
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