Flexible Overlap Display Panels for Seamless Curved Ring Screens

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional display devices face challenges in creating large, seamless, and attention-grabbing displays that can be easily maintained and controlled, with limitations in power efficiency and manufacturing costs, especially when trying to cover curved or ring-shaped surfaces.

Innovation Solution

A display system comprising flexible display panels with overlapping regions that transmit visible light, allowing for a seamless image display along curved surfaces, including a power receiving device for efficient power feeding and a modular design for easy maintenance and control.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Shape

If a conventional flat display device is used, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but it cannot display images seamlessly along a curved surface or in ring shape

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecurved surface display capabilityVSAvoiddisplay panel structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ShapeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display device employs a curved display panel that can be bent into a circular or arc shape, enabling seamless image display along curved surfaces. The panel includes a flexible substrate and functional layers that maintain integrity when curved, with transparent electrodes and light-emitting elements arranged to conform to the curved geometry without compromising display quality or structural stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

2Area of stationary object

If the display device is increased in size to enhance advertising effect, then more attention is attracted, but the device becomes harder to maintain and control

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay areaVSAvoidmaintenance difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSEase of repair

Solution Approach 1:

The large display device is divided into multiple modular display panels that can be independently manufactured, assembled, and replaced. Each panel functions as an independent unit with its own driving circuitry, allowing for localized maintenance and repair without affecting the entire display system. The modular design facilitates easier transportation, installation, and replacement of individual panels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Adaptability or versatility

If a curved flexible display panel is used to achieve seamless display, then the advertising effect is enhanced, but the manufacturing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay configuration flexibilityVSAvoidpanel fabrication
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The display panel utilizes a flexible substrate structure with thin-film functional layers that can be bent and curved without cracking or delamination. The flexible construction includes flexible transparent electrodes, organic light-emitting layers, and encapsulation layers designed to accommodate curvature. This flexibility enables the panel to be manufactured in standard flat configurations and then shaped into curved or circular forms during assembly, simplifying the overall manufacturing process compared to creating rigid curved displays.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Data Source

PatentUS20240201929A1Display device, display unit, and display system
Publication Date: 2024.06.20 SEMICON ENERGY LAB CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided is a display device or a display system capable of displaying images along a curved surface, a display device or a display system capable of displaying images seamlessly in the form of a ring, or a display device or a display system that is suitable for increasing in size. The display device includes a display panel. The display panel includes a first part and a second part and is flexible. The first part can display images. The second part can transmit visible light. The display panel is curved so that the second part and the first part overlap with each other.