The present disclosure relates to the field of display technique, and particularly to a gate driving circuit and an array substrate.
In recent years, high integration and low cost have become a trend for the development of a liquid crystal display. Herein, one important technique is a realization of a Gate Driver on Array (GOA) technique in mass production. A gate driving circuit is integrated into an array substrate of a liquid crystal display panel by utilizing the GOA technique, and thus an original gate driving integrated circuit can be omitted, thus reducing the cost of the production in terms of the material cost and the manufacturing process. The gate driving circuit which is integrated into the array substrate by means of the GOA technique is also referred to as a GOA circuit.
In the prior art, the GOA circuit comprises several GOA units, and each GOA unit receives a pair of clock signals which are inverted to each other and outputs a gate line signal for driving a corresponding gate line; in particular, an output terminal of each GOA unit is connected to one gate line. The inventor noted that since the GOA unit receives a pair of inverted clock signals simultaneously and input paths for the pair of inverted clock signals are generally close to each other and even overlap, a capacitance may be formed therebetween; further, a voltage difference between the pair of inverted clock signals can be high up to 20V, and such a high voltage difference can easily cause the capacitance formed between the input paths of the pair of inverted clock signals to be broken down, such that the input paths of the pair of inverted clock signals are short-circuited. As a result, the GOA unit having such a short-circuit operates abnormally, which may result in the failure of all the GOA units, and even the failure of the integrated circuits inside the liquid crystal display.
In embodiments of the present disclosure, there are provided a gate driving circuit and an array substrate capable of ensuring that when a malfunction occurs, such as a short-circuit and the like, in the input paths of the clock signals for a certain gate driving unit, other gate driving units can operate properly.
Embodiments of the present disclosure adopt the following technical solution.
According to a first aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a gate driving circuit comprising a plurality of sets of gate driving units, each set of gate driving units comprises m gate driving units, and m is an integer greater than 1; each set of gate driving units outputs a gate driving signal to a gate line; when one gate driving unit in a set of gate driving units malfunctions, said gate driving unit having a malfunction is terminated in operation and other gate driving units in the set of gate driving units maintain an operation of the set of gate driving units.
Optionally, m is an integer equal to or greater than 2 and less than or equal to 5.
Each of gate driving units comprises a gate driving module, a detection module and a control module, wherein the gate driving module comprises a first input port and a second input port, and the first input port of the gate driving module is connected to a first clock signal, the second input port of the gate driving module is connected to a second clock signal inverted to the first clock signal.
When the detection module detects that a short-circuit occurs between the first input port and the second input port of the gate driving module, the detection module sends a short-circuit signal to the control module; the control module, according to the short-circuit signal, disconnects a connection between the first input port of the gate driving module and the first clock signal as well as a connection between the second input port of the gate driving module and the second clock signal.
The detection module comprises a subtraction sub-module and an absolute value sub-module.
The subtraction sub-module has a first input port and a second input port, and the first input port of the subtraction sub-module is connected to the first input port of the gate driving module, and the second input port of the subtraction sub-module is connected to the second input port of the gate driving module, and the subtraction sub-module obtains a difference signal by performing a subtraction between an input signal at the first input port of the gate driving module and an input signal at the second input port of the gate driving module. An output terminal of the subtraction sub-module is connected to the absolute value sub-module and outputs the difference signal to the absolute value sub-module;
An output terminal of the absolute value sub-module is connected to the control module, and the absolute value sub-module obtains the absolute value of the received difference signal, and sends the short-circuit signal to the control module if the absolute value is less than a preset value.
The subtraction sub-module comprises: a first resistor, a second resistor, a third resistor, a fourth resistor and a first operational amplifier.
A first terminal of the first resistor is connected to the first input port of the subtraction sub-module, and a second terminal of the first resistor is connected to an inverting input terminal of the first operational amplifier; a first terminal of the second resistor is connected to the second input port of the subtraction sub-module, and a second terminal of the second resistor is connected to a non-inverting input terminal of the first operational amplifier; a first terminal of the third resistor is connected to the inverting input terminal of the first operational amplifier, and a second terminal of the third resistor is connected to an output terminal of the first operational amplifier; a first terminal of the fourth resistor is connected to the non-inverting input terminal of the first operational amplifier, and a second terminal of the fourth resistor is grounded.
The inverting input terminal of the first operational amplifier is connected to second terminal of the first resistor, the non-inverting input terminal of the first operational amplifier is connected the second terminal of the second resistor, and the output terminal of the first operational amplifier is connected to the output terminal of the subtraction sub-module.
Here, a resistance value of the first resistor and that of the second resistor are equal, and a resistance value of the third resistor and that of the fourth resistor are equal.
The absolute value sub-module comprises: a first diode, a fifth resistor, a sixth resistor and a second operational amplifier.
Here, an input terminal of the first diode is connected to the input terminal of the absolute value sub-module, and an output terminal of the first diode is connected to the output terminal of the absolute value sub-module; a first terminal of the fifth resistor is connected to the input terminal of the absolute value sub-module, and a second terminal of the fifth resistor is connected to an inverting input terminal of the second operational amplifier; a first terminal of the sixth resistor is connected to the inverting input terminal of the second operational amplifier, and a second terminal of the sixth resistor is connected to the output terminal of the absolute value sub-module.
The inverting input terminal of the second operational amplifier is connected to the second terminal of the fifth resistor, the non-inverting input terminal of the second operational amplifier is grounded, and an output terminal of the second operational amplifier is connected to the output terminal of the absolute value sub-module.
Here, a resistance value of the fifth resistor and that of the sixth resistor are equal.
The control module comprises a first switching transistor and a second switching transistor.
Here, a gate of the first switching transistor and that of the second switching transistor are connected to the output terminal of the absolute value sub-module; a first terminal of the first switching transistor is connected to the first clock signal, and a second terminal of the first switching transistor is connected to the first input port of the gate driving module; and a first terminal of the second switching transistor is connected to the second clock signal, and a second terminal of the second switching transistor is connected to the second input port of the gate driving module.
Optionally, the first switching transistor and the second switching transistor are thin film transistors.
According to a second aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an array substrate comprising the above gate driving circuit.
In a technical solution of embodiments of the present disclosure, the gate driving circuit comprises a plurality of sets of gate driving units, wherein each set of gate driving units comprises m gate driving units, and m is an integer greater than 1; when one gate driving unit in a set of gate driving units malfunctions, said gate driving unit in malfunction is terminated in operation. After the gate driving unit in malfunction is terminated in operation, since each set of gate driving units comprises at least two gate driving units and respective gate driving units output a gate driving signal to one gate line, the normal operation of the gate line is guaranteed to a large extent, thus improving reliability of the gate driving circuit in operation and enhancing user's experience in use.
In order to more clearly describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure or in the prior art, drawings necessary for describing the embodiments of the present disclosure or the prior art are simply introduced as follows. It should be obvious for those skilled in the art that the drawings described as follows only illustrate some embodiments of the present disclosure and other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without paying any inventive efforts.
To illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure clearly and fully, hereinafter, detailed descriptions will be made to the embodiments of the present disclosure in connection with the accompanying drawings. Obviously, the embodiments as described are only a part of the embodiments of the present disclosure, and are not all the embodiments of the present disclosure. All other embodiments which are obtained by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present disclosure without paying any inventive labor shall fall into the protection of the present disclosure.
According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a gate driving circuit, as shown in
Optionally, m is an integer equal to or greater than 2 and less than or equal to 5. When m is less than 2, the functions as described in the embodiments of the present disclosure cannot be achieved. When m is greater than 5, although the functions of the embodiments of the present disclosure can be achieved, the complexity of manufacturing processes and wiring structure is increased significantly.
It can be seen from
In the technical solution of the embodiments of the present disclosure, the gate driving circuit comprises a plurality of sets of gate driving units, wherein each set of gate driving units comprise m gate driving units, and m is an integer greater than 1; when one gate driving unit in a set of gate driving units malfunctions, said gate driving unit in malfunction is terminated in operation. After the gate driving unit in malfunction is terminated in operation, since each set of gate driving units comprises at least two gate driving units and respective gate driving units output a gate driving signal to a same gate line, the normal operation of the gate line is guaranteed to a large extent, thus improving the reliability of the gate driving circuit in operation and enhancing the user's experience in use.
In particular, since respective gate driving units are identical in structure, a gate driving unit 1m in a first set of gate driving units in
Further, in the technical solutions of the embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in
In particular, the subtraction sub-module has a first input port c (the first input port c of the detection module) and a second input port d (the second input port d of the detection module), and in connection with
An output terminal of the absolute value sub-module (i.e., an output terminal g of the detection module in
Further, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, as shown in
A first terminal of the first resistor R1 is connected to the first input port c of the subtraction sub-module, and a second terminal of the first resistor R1 is connected to an inverting input terminal of the first operational amplifier. A first terminal of the second resistor R2 is connected to the second input port d of the subtraction sub-module, and a second terminal of the second resistor R2 is connected to a non-inverting input terminal of the first operational amplifier. A first terminal of the third resistor R3 is connected to the inverting input terminal of the first operational amplifier, and a second terminal of the third resistor R3 is connected to an output terminal of the first operational amplifier. A first terminal of the fourth resistor R4 is connected to the non-inverting input terminal of the first operational amplifier, and a second terminal of the fourth resistor R4 is grounded.
Here, a resistance value of the first resistor R1 and that of the second resistor R2 are equal, and a resistance value of the third resistor R3 and that of the fourth resistor R4 are equal.
Since R1=R2 and R3=R4, it can be known from
At the same time, as shown in
An input terminal of the first diode D1 is connected to the input terminal of the absolute value sub-module, and an output terminal of the first diode D1 is connected to the output terminal g of the absolute value sub-module. A first terminal of the fifth resistor R5 is connected to the input terminal of the absolute value sub-module, and a second terminal of the fifth resistor R5 is connected to an inverting input terminal of the second operational amplifier. A first terminal of the sixth resistor R6 is connected to the inverting input terminal of the second operational amplifier, and a second terminal of the sixth resistor R6 is connected to the output terminal of the absolute value sub-module. The inverting input terminal of the second operational amplifier is connected to the second terminal of the fifth resistor R5, a non-inverting input terminal of the second operational amplifier is grounded, and an output terminal of the second operational amplifier is connected to the output terminal g of the absolute value sub-module.
Here, the resistance value of the fifth resistor R5 and that of the sixth resistor R6 are equal.
In connection with
when U1>0, D1 is turned on, and U2=U1;
when U1<0, D1 is turned off, and after U1 passes through the second operational amplifier, since R5=R6.
After that, as shown in
Further, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, as shown in
A gate of the first switching transistor T1 and that of the second switching transistor T2 are connected to the output terminal g of the absolute value sub-module. A first terminal of the first switching transistor T1 is connected to the first clock signal CLK, and a second terminal of the first switching transistor T1 is connected to the first input port a of the gate driving module. A first terminal of the second switching transistor T2 is connected to the second clock signal CLKB, and a second terminal of the second switching transistor T2 is connected to the second input port b of the gate driving module.
As shown in
when U1>0, U2=U1; and when U1<0, U2=−U1; the voltage value of U2 at this time can maintain the first switching transistor T1 and the second switching transistor T2 in the control module to be in on-state, and the gate driving module can receive the first clock signal CLK and the second clock signal CLKB, and thus can operate properly.
In a case that there is a short-circuit between the first input port a and the second input port b of the gate driving unit, as shown in
Optionally, the first switching transistor T1 and the second switching transistor T2 are thin film transistors.
Optionally, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, the first switching transistor T1 and the second switching transistor T2 are N-type thin film transistors.
It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present disclosure, although only one pair of clock signals CLK and CLKB is described for facilitating the illustration, the present invention can also be applied to the gate driving circuit with a plurality of pairs of clock signals; since the implementation thereof is similar to the above-mentioned, and the details are omitted.
According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is further provided an array substrate comprising the above gate driving circuit.
It will be obvious that those skilled in the art may make modifications and variations to the above embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. Such modifications and variations are intended to be included within the spirit and scope of the present disclosure provided that the modifications and variations belong to the scope of the claims of the present disclosure and the equivalence thereof.
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/CN2013/078902 | 7/5/2013 | WO | 00 |