Display Pixel Circuit Layout With Parallel Storage Capacitors

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current display technologies, such as LCDs and OLEDs, face challenges in achieving high efficiency and resolution due to the difficulty in manufacturing and arranging small LED chips effectively for high-resolution micro-LED displays.

Innovation Solution

The proposed display apparatus includes a substrate with a light-emitting device, a driving transistor, power supply lines, and conductive patterns that form capacitors in parallel, optimizing the electrical characteristics and arrangement of sub-pixels to enhance capacitance and reduce resistance, thereby improving display efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If micro-LED chips are used to manufacture high-resolution display apparatus, then display resolution is improved, but manufacturing difficulty and transfer technology requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay resolutionVSAvoidmanufacturing and transfer technology
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses transfer technology to create a master template with LED chips arranged in a specific pattern, then transfers this pattern to the substrate. This copying approach simplifies the manufacturing process by standardizing the placement procedure and enabling mass production of high-resolution displays without requiring manual positioning of each micro-LED chip.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a transfer substrate as an intermediary component that temporarily holds the micro-LED chips in the correct arrangement before transferring them to the final display substrate. This intermediary structure facilitates the complex transfer process by providing a stable platform for chip mounting and alignment, reducing the overall manufacturing difficulty.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Manufacturing precision

If small LED chips are used for high-resolution display, then display quality is improved, but efficiency of manufacturing decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay qualityVSAvoidmanufacturing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple small LED chips onto a single transfer substrate in one manufacturing step, rather than placing them individually. This batch processing approach significantly improves manufacturing efficiency while maintaining the high resolution required for quality displays, as entire arrays of micro-LED chips are transferred simultaneously in a single operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs preliminary arrangement and bonding of micro-LED chips to the transfer substrate before the actual transfer to the display substrate. This preliminary action ensures that all chips are correctly positioned and secured in advance, enabling rapid transfer and improving overall manufacturing efficiency while maintaining display quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This configuration increases the capacitance of storage capacitors and reduces the total resistance of power supply lines, leading to improved electrical characteristics and display performance.

Implementation Method 1

the conductive pattern and the first power supply line constitute a first capacitor, wherein the conductive pattern and the second power supply line constitute a second capacitor, and wherein the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected in parallel

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCapacitance: Capacitance

Data Source

PatentUS11764254B2Display apparatus
Publication Date: 2023.09.19 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A display apparatus includes a substrate, a light-emitting device provided on the substrate, a driving transistor device configured to control the light-emitting device, a first power supply line electrically connected to a source region of the driving transistor device, a conductive pattern electrically connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor device, and a second power supply line electrically connected to the first power supply line, wherein the conductive pattern and the first power supply line constitute a first capacitor, and the conductive pattern and the second power supply line constitute a second capacitor, wherein the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected in parallel.