Flexible Display Backboard Alignment via CCD Marking

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Solution Overview

Problem

In flexible displays, the edge of the first backboard is often not in the same cross-section as the edge of the second backboard after bending, leading to stress concentration and potential damage due to misalignment.

Innovation Solution

The use of marks on the glue-free surfaces of the first and second backboards, aligned using a charge-coupled device (CCD), ensures accurate attachment of the second backboard to the first, preventing misalignment and stress concentration.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Area of moving object

If the bending radius of the bending area is reduced to achieve higher screen ratio, then the screen ratio is improved, but the attachment accuracy requirement increases leading to misalignment and stress concentration

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescreen ratioVSAvoidattachment accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of moving objectVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining mark positions on the first and second backboards before the bonding process. These marks serve as pre-established reference points that guide the alignment during attachment, ensuring that even with reduced bending radius, the backboards can be accurately positioned relative to each other, thereby preventing misalignment and stress concentration while achieving higher screen ratio

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses marks as simplified copies or representations of the intended alignment positions. By creating corresponding marks on both backboards that represent their target relative positions, the complex requirement for high attachment accuracy is transformed into a simpler visual matching task, enabling precise alignment without requiring extremely tight manufacturing tolerances

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Manufacturing precision

If marks are added on the backboards for alignment, then the attachment accuracy is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveattachment accuracyVSAvoidstructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by dividing the alignment function into separate mark elements on each backboard rather than using a complex integrated alignment mechanism. Each mark is an independent, simple feature that can be easily manufactured and positioned, and the collection of these segmented marks provides the complete alignment information needed for accurate attachment

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The marks function as simple, inexpensive reference features that can be easily added to the backboards (through printing, etching, or other low-cost methods). These marks serve their alignment purpose during the bonding process and then fulfill their function, representing a low-cost solution to the alignment problem that avoids complex, expensive alignment mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

Data Source

PatentUS10839723B2Flexible display
Publication Date: 2020.11.17 WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
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AI summary

A flexible display is provided. The flexible display includes a flexible panel and a backboard body fixedly connected with the flexible panel. A glue-free surface is disposed on a side of the backboard body away from the flexible panel, and the backboard body includes a first backboard and a second backboard. At least one mark is disposed on the glue-free surface of the first backboard and the glue-free surface of second backboard, and all of the marks on the same backboard are arranged along a length direction of a bending line.