Dual-Shading Layer Display Panel Light Leakage Prevention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Light leakage occurs during the cell-assembly process of display panels due to misalignment between the shading layers and the data or scanning lines, affecting product yield and transmittance.
Innovation Solution
A dual-shading layer approach where the first shading layer is arranged on the first substrate and the second shading layer on the second substrate, ensuring that data and scanning lines are blocked by at least one of the layers, thereby preventing light leakage and maintaining high transmittance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a single shading layer is arranged on only one substrate (first or second substrate), then the structure is simple and manufacturing is easier, but light leakage occurs due to misalignment between the shading layer and data/scanning lines during cell-assembly
Solution Approach 1:
The shading function is segmented into two separate layers: a first shading layer on the first substrate and a second shading layer on the second substrate. Each layer independently blocks light from data and scanning lines, ensuring that light leakage is prevented even if one layer is misaligned during cell-assembly. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by distributing the shading function across multiple components rather than relying on a single layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The dual shading layer structure serves as a pre-established protective measure against misalignment errors. By having redundant shading layers on both substrates before cell-assembly, the design compensates for potential positioning errors that occur during assembly, ensuring that at least one layer will effectively block light from the data and scanning lines.
2Reliability
If the shading layer is made wider to ensure complete blocking of data and scanning lines, then light leakage is reduced, but the transmittance of the display panel decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The shading function is divided between two substrates, allowing each shading layer to be optimized for its specific position. This segmentation enables the shading layers to block light from data and scanning lines effectively without requiring excessive width on a single layer, thereby maintaining better overall transmittance.
Solution Approach 2:
The shading layers are positioned locally at the specific locations where data and scanning lines are present on each substrate. This localized shading approach ensures that light is blocked only where necessary (at the line positions) rather than across the entire display area, preserving transmittance in the pixel regions while preventing light leakage at the line positions.
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
Effectively prevents light leakage and maintains high transmittance by ensuring accurate blocking of data and scanning lines, even in cases of misalignment, thus improving the yield and display quality of the display panel.
Implementation Method 1
the first substrate includes a first shading layer, the first shading layer being formed between two neighboring pixel elements to block the data lines or the scanning lines
Data Source
AI summary
This application discloses a method for manufacturing a display panel, a display panel, and a display device. The display panel has a display area and a peripheral area. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of pixel elements, a plurality of data lines and scanning lines, and a plurality of color filters. The first substrate includes a first shading layer, the first shading layer being formed between two neighboring pixel elements to block the data lines or the scanning lines. The display area includes an opening area and a non-opening area, and the first shading layer is arranged only in the non-opening area. The second substrate includes a second shading layer arranged corresponding to the first shading layer. Each of the data lines and the scanning lines is blocked by at least one of the first shading layer and the second shading layer.


