Fluorescent Sheet Display Panel for Thin High-Definition Visibility

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display panels face challenges in improving visibility during light emission, especially with higher-definition displays, while also requiring thinner and cost-effective manufacturing, as conventional light guides complicate the process and increase thickness.

Innovation Solution

A display panel design featuring a light emitting element array substrate without fluorescent bodies, a fluorescent sheet or resin base material, and a light guide path-forming base material that forms a light guide path in the optical axis direction, with an opaque thin layer covering the exit surface, allowing for reduced thickness and lower manufacturing costs by minimizing light diffusion and scattering.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If a light guide with through holes is provided to improve visibility during light emission, then visibility is improved, but the device thickness cannot be reduced and manufacturing becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisibility during light emissionVSAvoiddevice thickness
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSLength of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the fluorescent body from the light emitting element itself and places it in a separate fluorescent sheet or resin base material layer. This separation allows the light emitting element to be smaller and the overall device to be thinner while maintaining visibility through the fluorescent conversion layer.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from a three-dimensional light guide structure with through holes to a two-dimensional fluorescent sheet or resin base material layer that converts light horizontally. This dimensional change eliminates the need for hole-making processes and reduces device thickness while maintaining visibility.

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

2Illumination intensity

If a light guide with through holes is provided to improve visibility during light emission, then visibility is improved, but manufacturing cost increases due to hole-making process

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisibility during light emissionVSAvoidmanufacturing cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the fluorescent body from the light emitting element itself and places it in a separate fluorescent sheet or resin base material layer. This separation allows the light emitting element to be smaller and the overall device to be thinner while maintaining visibility through the fluorescent conversion layer.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from a three-dimensional light guide structure with through holes to a two-dimensional fluorescent sheet or resin base material layer that converts light horizontally. This dimensional change eliminates the need for hole-making processes and reduces device thickness while maintaining visibility.

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

3Manufacturing precision

If the display is made high-definition, then display quality is improved, but making small holes becomes difficult in terms of process and strength

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay definitionVSAvoidhole-making difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the fluorescent body from the light emitting element itself and places it in a separate fluorescent sheet or resin base material layer. This separation allows the light emitting element to be smaller and the overall device to be thinner while maintaining visibility through the fluorescent conversion layer.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from a three-dimensional light guide structure with through holes to a two-dimensional fluorescent sheet or resin base material layer that converts light horizontally. This dimensional change eliminates the need for hole-making processes and reduces device thickness while maintaining visibility.

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

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 enhances visibility for higher-definition displays, reduces device thickness, and lowers production costs by optimizing light propagation and reducing power consumption and heat generation, while allowing for various material choices and aesthetic designs.

Implementation Method 1

a fluorescent sheet or fluorescent resin base material laminated on the light emitting element array substrate

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFluorescence: Fluorescence

Implementation Method 2

a light guide path-forming base material that is laminated on the fluorescent sheet or fluorescent resin base material and forms a light guide path in an optical axis direction of the light emitting element

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectRefraction: Refraction

Implementation Method 3

forms a light guide path in an optical axis direction

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectTotal internal reflection: Total Internal Reflection

Data Source

PatentUS20230290293A1Display panel and operation display panel
Publication Date: 2023.09.14 MUI LAB INC
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AI summary

Provided are a display panel and an operation display panel which improve visibility when emitting light in order to cope even with a higher-definition display while reducing the thickness of a device and which can be manufactured at low cost. The present invention comprises: a light emitting element array substrate in which light emitting elements containing no fluorescent body are two-dimensionally arranged; a fluorescent sheet or fluorescent resin base material laminated on the light emitting element array substrate; a light guide path-forming base material that is laminated on the fluorescent sheet or fluorescent resin base material and forms a light guide path in an optical axis direction of the light emitting element; and an opaque thin layer that covers an exit surface side of the light guide path-forming base material.