Display Substrate Wire Layout Around Camera Opening

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge in display technology is to achieve a narrow-frame and large-screen design for display devices, as the installation of cameras requires space, which hinders full-screen functionality and complicates the integration of display regions.

Innovation Solution

A display substrate design featuring a display region with an opening surrounded by a peripheral region, where wires are arranged in a bent configuration to pass through the opening peripheral region, allowing for efficient signal transmission and capacitor formation, thereby optimizing space utilization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Area of stationary object

If wires are arranged in a straight line through the opening peripheral region, then the wire layout is simple, but the display area is reduced and camera integration is hindered

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay areaVSAvoidwire layout complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies curvature by bending the wires in an S-shape within the opening peripheral region. This curved wire arrangement allows the wires to pass through the limited space of the opening peripheral region without requiring additional space that would reduce the display area, while still maintaining proper electrical connections and enabling camera integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes the vertical dimension by forming capacitors between the bent wires and the semiconductor pattern/conductive pattern in the opening peripheral region. This three-dimensional capacitor structure allows for load compensation without occupying additional planar space, thus preserving the display area while managing wire complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Area of stationary object

If wires are bent to pass through the opening peripheral region, then space utilization is optimized, but manufacturing precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespace utilizationVSAvoidwire bending precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent incorporates the wire bending and capacitor formation into the existing manufacturing process flow. The wires are patterned with predetermined bends during the standard wire formation process, and capacitors are formed simultaneously with other device structures. This preliminary planning of wire paths and integrated capacitor formation reduces the need for additional precision steps.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent combines multiple functions into the opening peripheral region: wires are bent to pass through this region while simultaneously forming capacitors between the wires and the semiconductor/conductive patterns. This merging of wire routing and capacitor formation into a single integrated structure simplifies the overall manufacturing process and reduces the cumulative precision requirements of separate steps.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Reliability

If wires are arranged to form capacitors in the opening peripheral region, then load compensation is sufficient, but the device structure becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveload compensationVSAvoiddevice structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The opening peripheral region serves multiple functions: it provides a pathway for wires to connect display regions, contains bent wire sections that form capacitors for load compensation, and enables camera integration. By making this region multi-functional, the patent achieves reliable load compensation without adding separate dedicated structures, thus avoiding increased device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The wires serve themselves by forming capacitors with the semiconductor pattern and conductive pattern in the opening peripheral region. The bent portions of the wires automatically create the capacitor structure through their proximity to these patterns, eliminating the need for separate capacitor formation steps or additional components. This self-service approach provides reliable load compensation while maintaining structural simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

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 design enables a narrow-frame and large-screen display by reducing wire space occupation and ensuring sufficient load compensation, enhancing display effect consistency and facilitating camera integration.

Implementation Method 1

the first wire is spaced apart and insulated from at least one of the semiconductor pattern and the conductive pattern to be capable of forming a capacitor, and the second wire is spaced apart and insulated from at least one of the semiconductor pattern and the conductive pattern to be capable of forming a capacitor

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCapacitance: Capacitance

Data Source

PatentUS12082460B2Display substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and display apparatus
Publication Date: 2024.09.03 CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed are a display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display apparatus. The display region of the display substrate includes an opening, and a first display region and a second display region located at opposite sides of the opening, and the peripheral region includes an opening peripheral region at least partially located in the opening. The display substrate further includes a first wire and a second wire arranged on a same layer; the first wire and the second wire pass through the first display region, the opening peripheral region and the second display region, sequentially; in the opening peripheral region, the first wire includes a first bent portion, the second wire includes a second bent portion, and the first bent portion and the second bent portion are arranged side by side along the first direction.