Display Panel Electrode Insulation Layout for Lower Interference

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display panels using array base plates face challenges in optimizing performance and preparation, particularly in achieving a thinner and lighter design while maintaining effective insulation and reducing preparation costs and interference issues.

Innovation Solution

A display panel design incorporating a first base plate with a substrate, transistor array layer, pixel electrode layer, common electrode layer, and inorganic insulating layers, where the inorganic insulating layers provide thinner and more cost-effective insulation, and the configuration of slits and vias reduces coupling capacitance and signal interference.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Length of moving object

If traditional insulating layers are used between the transistor array layer and electrode layers, then insulation performance is maintained, but the display panel thickness and weight increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay panel thicknessVSAvoidinsulation performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Length of moving objectVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the material parameter of the insulating layer from traditional organic materials to inorganic insulating layers, which have different physical properties including thinner achievable thickness while maintaining or improving insulation performance. This material parameter change enables reduced panel thickness without sacrificing insulation reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs composite material structures by combining inorganic insulating layers with the existing transistor array and electrode layer architecture. The inorganic insulating layers are integrated into the multi-layer structure, creating a composite system that achieves both thinness and effective insulation through material composition optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Object-affected harmful factors

If complex insulating structures are used to reduce interference, then signal interference is reduced, but preparation costs and manufacturing complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesignal interferenceVSAvoidpreparation cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the insulating function from complex multi-layer organic insulating structures and concentrates it into dedicated inorganic insulating layers positioned strategically between the transistor array layer and electrode layers. This extraction simplifies the overall structure by removing unnecessary complex layers while maintaining the essential insulation function, thereby reducing manufacturing complexity and cost.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The inorganic insulating layers serve as intermediary elements between the transistor array layer and the electrode layers, providing effective electrical insulation and signal interference reduction. These intermediary layers act as mediators that block harmful electromagnetic coupling while maintaining a simple, cost-effective structure compared to complex alternative designs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20230378194A1Display panel and display apparatus
Publication Date: 2023.11.23 XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO ELECTRONICS
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AI summary

A display panel and a display apparatus are provided. A first base plate includes a first substrate, a transistor array layer, a pixel electrode layer, a common electrode layer, a first inorganic insulating layer, and a second inorganic insulating layer. The transistor array layer is provided on a side of the first substrate. The pixel electrode layer and the common electrode layer are arranged on a side of the transistor array layer away from the first substrate. The transistor array layer includes a transistor, the pixel electrode layer includes a pixel electrode, and the common electrode layer includes common electrodes. An insulating layer between the transistor array layer and one of the pixel electrode layer and the common electrode layer close to the transistor array layer is the first inorganic insulating layer. The second inorganic insulating layer is provided between the pixel electrode layer and the common electrode layer.