Disclosure of Invention
The embodiment of the invention provides a display panel and a display device, and aims to solve the problem that a bending area of the display panel is easy to be folded and the display panel is prone to fail.
In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a display panel, including:
a display screen body, the display screen body comprises a bending area and a binding area connected with one side of the bending area,
the display screen body is provided with a through groove penetrating through the bending area corresponding to the bending area, and the extending direction of the through groove is parallel to the direction of a bending shaft of the bending area;
the binding region penetrates through and extends out of the through groove, so that the section of the bending region perpendicular to the bending shaft is in a closed structure.
Optionally, a portion of the cross section of the closed structure located between the through groove of the bending region and the binding region is formed.
Optionally, the display screen body further includes a display area located on one side of the bending area away from the binding area, and the bending area includes a first side and a second side that are parallel to each other; the first side is connected with the display area, and the second side is connected with the binding area; in a direction from the first side to the second side, the length of the bending region in a direction parallel to the first side is gradually reduced.
Optionally, the length of the second side is less than or equal to the extension length of the through slot.
Optionally, in a direction from the first side to the second side, a vertical distance between the through groove and the first side is smaller than a vertical distance between the through groove and the second side.
Optionally, the closed structure is a circular structure or an arc-shaped structure.
Optionally, the closed structure formed by the part between the through groove of the bending region and the binding region is located on a non-display side of the display panel; the display side of the display panel is a light emergent side of the display panel, and the non-display side of the display panel is a side opposite to the display side.
Optionally, the closed structure formed by the part between the through groove of the bending region and the binding region is located on the display side of the display panel; the display side of the display panel is a light emergent side of the display panel, and the non-display side of the display panel is a side opposite to the display side.
Optionally, a flexible circuit board is bound on the binding region; in a direction parallel to the first side, the length of the flexible circuit board is less than or equal to the extending length of the through groove of the bending area; after the bending area is bent, the flexible circuit board penetrates through the through groove and extends to the non-display side of the display panel.
Optionally, a plurality of signal lines are arranged in the bending region; the signal wire is arranged around the through groove.
In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a display device, including the display panel provided in any embodiment of the present invention.
In the invention, the display screen body of the display panel comprises a bending area and a binding area connected with the bending area, wherein the bending area is provided with a through groove which penetrates through the bending area and is arranged along the direction of the bending shaft, so that the binding area can penetrate through and extend out of the through groove, and the section of the bending area vertical to the bending shaft is of a closed structure. Above-mentioned enclosed construction makes the bending zone naturally form fixed angle of buckling at crooked in-process for the bending angle and the radius of buckling of bending zone are stable, are difficult for appearing the bending zone because of the problem of the dead book that the angle undersize of buckling caused. The display panel provided by the embodiment forms a stable and uniform bending angle by utilizing the stiffness of the material of the bending area, can effectively improve the bending effect of the bending area, and improves the product yield of the display panel.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples. It is to be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not limiting of the invention. It should be further noted that, for the convenience of description, only some of the structures related to the present invention are shown in the drawings, not all of the structures.
In the prior art, the bending of the display panel bending area is usually realized by fixing components such as supporting strips or adhesive tapes. The display panel comprises a display area, a binding area, and a bending area for connecting the display area and the binding area, wherein when the binding area is bent to the backlight side of the display panel through the bending area, a first supporting film is arranged on the non-display side of the display area of the display panel, a second supporting film is arranged on the non-display side of the binding area, the flexible display area and the binding area are respectively and rigidly supported, a supporting strip is arranged between the first supporting film and the second supporting film, and is used for supporting the bending angle formed by the bending area, but the bending angle of the bending area is not easy to control, the bending angle is easy to be too large or too small, when the bending angle is too small, the display panel is easy to generate dead fold due to stress concentration, the breakage of a metal signal line arranged in the bending area is caused, the subsequent display of the display panel is influenced, and the product qualification rate of the display panel is reduced.
In order to solve the problems that the bending angle of the bending area of the display panel is unstable and the display panel is easy to be folded, the embodiment of the invention provides a display panel, which comprises:
a display screen body, the display screen body comprises a bending area and a binding area connected with one side of the bending area,
the display screen body is provided with a through groove penetrating through the bending area corresponding to the bending area, and the extending direction of the through groove is parallel to the direction of a bending shaft of the bending area;
the binding area penetrates through and extends out of the through groove, so that the section of the bending area, which is perpendicular to the bending axis, is in a closed structure.
The display screen body is provided with the organic light emitting array that is used for with the display image, and the district of binding is provided with the pad for bind driver chip or flexible circuit board etc. the district of buckling sets up to connect and binds the district, is used for buckling the district of binding to the side of being shaded of the display screen body, in order to reduce the width of the display device's that this embodiment display panel formed frame, improves display device's screen and accounts for the ratio, improves the display effect.
In the embodiment of the invention, the display screen body of the display panel comprises a bending area and a binding area connected with the bending area, wherein the bending area is provided with a through groove which penetrates through the bending area and is arranged along the direction of the bending axis, so that the binding area can penetrate through and extend out of the through groove, and the section of the bending area vertical to the bending axis is in a closed structure. Above-mentioned enclosed construction makes the bending zone naturally form fixed angle of buckling at crooked in-process for the bending angle and the radius of buckling of bending zone are stable, are difficult for appearing the bending zone because of the problem of the dead book that the angle undersize of buckling caused. The display panel provided by the embodiment forms a stable and uniform bending angle by utilizing the stiffness of the material of the bending area, can effectively improve the bending effect of the bending area, and improves the product yield of the display panel.
The above is the core idea of the present invention, and the technical solution in the embodiment of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiment of the present invention. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without any creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a display panel in an unbent state according to an embodiment of the present invention,
fig. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional structure diagram of a display panel in a bent state according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, a bent region 11 of the display panel 1 is respectively connected to a display region 12 and a binding region 13, and a through groove 111 is disposed in the bent region 11, as shown in fig. 1, when the bent region 11 is in an unbent state, the through groove 111 penetrates through the bent region 11 along a direction perpendicular to the bent region 11, or along a direction perpendicular to the display panel 1.
Optionally, referring to fig. 1 and fig. 2, the display panel further includes a display area 12 located on a side of the bending area 11 away from the binding area 13, and the bending area 11 includes a first side L1 and a second side L2 that are parallel to each other; the first side L1 is connected with the display area 12, and the second side L2 is connected with the binding area 13; in a direction from the first side L1 to the second side L2, the length of the bending zone 11 in a direction parallel to the first side L1 gradually decreases. As shown in fig. 2, the length of the bending region 11 in the direction parallel to the first side L1 and the second side L2 gradually decreases from the first side L1 to the second side L2, for example, the bending region 11 may be configured as a trapezoid structure, or other irregular gradual structure. Referring to fig. 2, alternatively, a portion of the cross section of the closed structure a between the through groove 111 of the bending region 11 and the binding region 13 is formed, and the length of the bending region 11 in a direction parallel to the first side L1 is gradually reduced, so that the portion between the through groove 111 of the bending region 11 and the second side L2 can be bent to form the closed structure a. Alternatively, the length of the second side L2 is less than or equal to the extension of the through groove 111, and the second side L2 can penetrate into the through groove 111, so that the portion between the through groove 111 and the second side L2 of the bending region 11 forms a bending portion with a cross-sectional shape perpendicular to the bending axis O and the above-mentioned closed structure a. Illustratively, as shown in fig. 2, the bending region 11 is bent in the direction r about a bending axis O, so that the portion between the through groove 111 and the second side L2 forms the above-mentioned closed structure a.
Optionally, with continued reference to fig. 1, in a direction from the first side L1 to the second side L2, a perpendicular distance d1 of the through slot 111 from the first side L1 is smaller than a perpendicular distance d2 of the through slot 111 from the second side L2. Most of the area of the bending region 11 of the display panel 1 can be bent to form a bending region with a section perpendicular to the bending axis O being a closed structure a, thereby effectively avoiding the dead fold phenomenon of the bending region 11.
Optionally, the length of the binding region 13 connected to the second side L2 in the extending direction of the through slot 111 is smaller than or equal to the through slot 111, so that the binding region 13 can pass through the through slot 111, preferably, the length of the binding region 13 in the extending direction of the through slot 111 is equal to the length of the through slot 111.
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, after bending the bending region 11, the binding region 13 passes through the through groove 111, and a portion between the through groove 111 and the second side L2 of the bending region 11 and having a length d2 is bent into a bent portion having a sectional shape of the closed structure a. The closed structure a is formed naturally when the bending region 11 is bent, and has no force action of other external fixing parts, the positions of the closed structure a are uniformly and flexibly bent, and rigid bending is not caused, and optionally, the closed structure a can be a circular structure or an arc-shaped structure, in an ideal case, when the portion of the bending zone 11 between the through groove 111 and the second side L2 is bent without a support member, a circular structure is formed, and if the circumference d2 of the circular structure is determined, the radius R of the circular structure is determined, by controlling the length d2 of the portion between the through groove 111 and the second side L2, can acquire the stable radius R of circular structure for display panel 1's the angle of buckling is stable, avoids appearing the problem that display panel became invalid, does not influence follow-up processing procedure, can reach good effect of buckling. Of course, in the manufacturing process of the bending region 11, the closed structure a may be an arc-shaped structure, but the arc-shaped structure is bent uniformly everywhere, and the dead fold condition does not occur.
Optionally, a plurality of signal lines are arranged in the bending region 11; the signal line is disposed around the through groove 111. A plurality of signal lines for transmitting signals such as driving signals and data signals are arranged in the bending region 11, and all the signal lines extend from the first side L1 to the second side L2 of the bending region 11, because the through groove 111 is a through hole structure penetrating through the bending region 11 in the thickness direction, the signal lines do not pass through the setting position of the through groove 111, but are arranged around the through groove 111, optionally, the through groove 111 is arranged at the central position of the bending region 11 parallel to the first side L1, and the plurality of signal lines are equally divided into two parts and respectively arranged at two sides of the through groove 111.
Many signal lines that set up in bending zone 11 are when bending zone 11 is not the state of buckling, are close to the metal signal line that the demonstration side of display panel 1 set up, for the fracture of signal line in preventing bending zone 11, and optional, can only make enclosed construction A be close to the one side that is provided with the signal line for circular structure or arc structure, keep away from the one side that is provided with the signal line and can be other regular or irregular shapes.
Optionally, with continued reference to fig. 2, after the bending region 11 is bent, the closed structure a formed by the portion between the through groove 111 and the binding region 13 of the bending region 11 is located on the non-display side of the display panel 1; the display side of the display panel 1 is the light exit side of the display panel 1, and the non-display side of the display panel 1 is the side opposite to the display side.
Referring to fig. 2, the light exiting side of the display panel 1 is a display side X, the side opposite to the display side X is a non-display side Y, and the second side L2 of the bending region 11 can be bent toward the non-display side Y of the display panel 1, so that the binding region 13 penetrates into the through groove 111 from the non-display side Y of the display panel 1 and penetrates out from the display side X of the display panel 1, and then a cross-sectional shape perpendicular to the bending axis O, which is formed by a portion between the through groove 111 and the second side L2 in the bending region 11, is a bending portion of the closed structure a and is located on the non-display side Y of the display panel 1, which is beneficial to preventing the bending region 11 from being folded.
Optionally, referring to fig. 3 and fig. 4, fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of another display panel provided in an embodiment of the present invention in an unbent state, fig. 4 is a schematic sectional structural diagram of another display panel provided in an embodiment of the present invention in a bent state, and the flexible circuit board 4 may be bound on the binding region 13; the length of the flexible circuit board 4 in the direction parallel to the first side L1 is less than or equal to the extension length of the through groove 111 of the bending region 11; after the bending region 11 is bent, the flexible circuit board 4 passes through the through groove 111 and extends to the non-display side of the display panel 1.
As can be seen from the above embodiments, the bonding region 13 is provided with a bonding pad for bonding the driver chip or the flexible circuit board 4. Optionally, the bonding region 13 may be formed by bonding a driver Chip using a Chip On Film (COF) packaging process or a Chip On PI (COP) packaging process. When the bonding area 13 adopts a COF packaging process, the flexible circuit board 4 is bonded in the bonding area 13, the driving chip is fixed on the flexible circuit board 4, and the driving chip is electrically connected with the pixel circuit on the display panel 1 through the metal wire on the flexible circuit board 4. When the bonding area 13 adopts a COP packaging process, the driving chip is directly bonded in the bonding area 13 through the bonding pad and is directly electrically connected with the pixel circuit on the display panel 1, and the flexible circuit board 4 is electrically connected with the driving chip bonded in the bonding area 13 through the bonding pad and is used for transmitting the signal output from the driving chip to the main circuit board and sending the signal output from the main circuit board to the driving chip. No matter which one of a COF packaging process and a COP packaging process is adopted in the bonding region 13 for bonding the driver chip, the flexible circuit board 4 needs to be bonded in the bonding region 13 to realize signal transmission, and the length of the flexible circuit board 4 in the direction parallel to the first side L1 is less than or equal to the length of the through groove 111 of the bending region 11, so that the flexible circuit board 4 can pass through the through groove 111 along with the bonding region 13.
Referring to fig. 4, if the flexible circuit board 4 and the bonding region 13 penetrate into the through groove 111 from the non-display side Y of the display panel 1, and then penetrate out of the through groove 111 from the display side X of the display panel 1, the flexible circuit board 4 needs to be bent by half of the circumference length from the display side X of the display panel 1 and then attached to the closed structure a formed by the bending region 11, and then is wound back to the non-display side Y of the display panel 1. The flexible circuit board 4 winds back to the non-display side Y of the display panel 1, and at the same time, fixes the closed structure a formed by the bending region 11, and plays a role in bringing the closed structure a close to the non-display side Y.
With continued reference to fig. 4, in a specific aspect of the present embodiment, when the closed structure a formed by the portion between the through groove 111 and the binding region 13 of the bending region 11 is located on the non-display side Y of the display panel 1, the flexible circuit board 4 disposed around the closed structure a may be set to be a transparent structure, and a display array is disposed in a length region of the bending region 11 close to half of the circumference of the flexible circuit board 4, so that the bending region 11 can form a sub-display region B, the display array disposed in the sub-display region B may be formed by the same process as the display array disposed in the display region 12 for displaying an image, and the sub-display region B may transmit light along the direction Z through the transparent flexible circuit board 4. The sub display area B may display different contents from the display area 12, respectively. Illustratively, the display area 12 is used for displaying image information, and the sub-display area B may display device status information, such as operating memory, remaining power, device temperature, and storage capacity. The sub display region B may also be an electronic ink screen to save power consumption of the display device when displaying device status information.
In addition, the binding region 13 can penetrate into the through groove 111 from the display side X of the display panel 1, and referring to fig. 5, fig. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional structure diagram of another display panel provided by an embodiment of the present invention in a bent state. Optionally, if the binding region 13 penetrates into the through groove 111 from the display side X of the display panel 1, after the bending region 11 is bent, the closed structure a formed by the part between the through groove 111 and the binding region 13 of the bending region 11 is located on the display side X of the display panel 1; the display side X of the display panel 1 is a light exit side of the display panel 1, and the non-display side Y of the display panel 1 is a side opposite to the display side.
As shown in fig. 5, the second side L2 of the bending region 11 is bent toward the display side X of the display panel 1 and is bent along the r 'direction with the bending axis O' as the center, so that the binding region 13 penetrates into the through groove 111 from the display side X of the display panel 1 and penetrates out from the non-display side Y of the display panel 1, the closed structure a formed by the portion between the through groove 111 and the second side L2 in the bending region 11 is located on the display side X of the display panel 1, and the portion between the through groove 111 and the second side L2 in the bending region 11 is bent into the closed structure a, which can form a stable bending angle as well, prevent the display panel 1 from dead-fold and the like, and improve the yield of the product of the display panel 1.
With continued reference to fig. 5, when the closed structure a formed by the portion between the through groove 111 and the second side L2 in the bending region 11 is located on the display side X of the display panel 1, a display array may be disposed on the closed structure a formed by the bending portion between the through groove 111 and the binding region 13 to form a sub display region B for image display, increasing the screen display rate. The sub-display area B is disposed on a side of the enclosing structure a close to the display side X, and has the same light emitting direction as the display area 12.
The display array of the sub-display area B and the display array for displaying images arranged in the display area 12 can be formed through the same process, when the flexible circuit board 4 penetrates through the through groove 111 from the display side X of the display panel 1, the sub-display area B arranged in the closed structure a needs to transmit emergent light through one side of the display panel 1 close to the substrate, the substrate of the bending area 11 of the display panel 1 is a transparent substrate, and the bending part of the closed structure a can be provided with the sub-display area B of the display area 12. Referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 is a front view of a display panel provided in the present invention in a bent state. Similarly, the sub display region B may display different contents from the display region 12, respectively. Illustratively, the display area 12 is used for displaying image information, and the sub-display area B may display device status information, such as operating memory, remaining power, device temperature, and storage capacity. The sub display region B may also be an electronic ink screen to save power consumption of the display device when displaying device status information.
In another aspect of the present embodiment, when the flexible circuit board 4 passes through the through slot 111 from the display side X of the display panel 1, and the sub-display area B is disposed on a side of the enclosing structure a close to the display side X, the sub-display area B of the bent portion of the enclosing structure a may be connected to the display area 12 to form a larger display area, as shown in fig. 7, where fig. 7 is a front view of another display panel provided in an embodiment of the present invention in a bent state. The setting area of the auxiliary display area B is spliced with the display area 12 to form an integral display area, so that the screen display rate of the display panel is greatly improved, a better narrow frame design is formed, and the use experience of a user is improved.
With continued reference to fig. 5, the flexible circuit board 4 may be bound on the binding region 13; the length of the flexible circuit board 4 in the direction parallel to the first side L1 is less than or equal to the extension length of the through groove 111 of the bending region 11; after the bending region 11 is bent, the flexible circuit board 4 can penetrate into the through groove 111 and is located on the non-display side Y of the display panel 1. Since the bonding region 13 and the flexible circuit board 4 penetrate into the through groove 111 from the display side X of the display panel 1 and penetrate out of the through groove 111 from the non-display side Y of the display panel 1, the flexible circuit board 4 directly extends to the non-display side Y of the display panel 1 for fixing.
The embodiment of the invention also provides a display device. Fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a display device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 8, the display device according to the embodiment of the present invention includes the display panel 1 according to any embodiment of the present invention. The display device may be a mobile phone, a computer, a television, an intelligent wearable device, and the like, and this embodiment is not particularly limited thereto.
It is to be noted that the foregoing is only illustrative of the preferred embodiments of the present invention and the technical principles employed. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the particular embodiments described herein, but is capable of various obvious changes, rearrangements and substitutions as will now become apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention. Therefore, although the present invention has been described in greater detail by the above embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and may include other equivalent embodiments without departing from the spirit of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is determined by the scope of the appended claims.