Liquid Crystal Display Light Shielding Film Narrow Spacing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing liquid crystal display devices face issues with light leakage and insufficient spacing between panels due to the presence of a light shielding plate, which also requires adhesive bonding.

Innovation Solution

Incorporation of a light shielding film on the side surfaces of adjacent liquid crystal display panels to block light from a back light, allowing for narrow spacing and adhesive-free assembly, supplemented by a joint filler or light shield to further suppress light leakage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Object-affected harmful factors

If a light shielding plate is disposed in the gap between adjacent liquid crystal display panels, then light leakage is suppressed, but the spacing between panels cannot be sufficiently narrowed and adhesive bonding is required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelight leakageVSAvoidpanel spacing
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSLength of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the rigid light shielding plate with a flexible light shielding film that is formed directly on the side surface of the liquid crystal display panel. This film can be made extremely thin and flexible, allowing the panels to be positioned very close together without the need for a bulky separate shielding plate, thus resolving the contradiction between light leakage suppression and narrow spacing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Solution Approach 2:

The light shielding function is merged with the panel structure itself by forming the light shielding film directly on the side surface of the panel. This eliminates the need for a separate light shielding plate and adhesive bonding, allowing the panels to be adhered directly to each other with minimal spacing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If a light shielding plate is disposed in the gap between adjacent liquid crystal display panels, then light leakage is suppressed, but the assembly process becomes more complex requiring adhesive bonding

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelight leakageVSAvoidassembly process
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The light shielding function is merged with the panel structure itself by forming the light shielding film directly on the side surface of the panel. This eliminates the need for a separate light shielding plate and adhesive bonding, allowing the panels to be adhered directly to each other with minimal spacing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention extracts the light shielding function from a separate component (light shielding plate) and integrates it into the panel structure itself through the light shielding film. This simplifies the overall assembly by reducing the number of separate components and eliminating the need for adhesive bonding between panels and shielding plates.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Area of stationary object

If multiple liquid crystal display panels are arranged to configure one screen, then display area is increased, but light leakage occurs at the joint portions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay areaVSAvoidlight leakage
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses a flexible light shielding film formed on the side surfaces of the panels to block light leakage at the joint portions between adjacent panels. This allows multiple panels to be arranged to create a larger display area while effectively suppressing light leakage at the boundaries between panels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

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

The solution effectively reduces light leakage and enables narrow panel spacing, providing a unified display with improved aesthetic unity and efficient assembly.

Implementation Method 1

a light shielding film that blocks the light from the back light

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight blocking: Absorption (EM radiation)

Data Source

PatentUS20250110365A1Liquid crystal display device
Publication Date: 2025.04.03 SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A liquid crystal display device includes a juxtaposed plurality of liquid crystal display panels, and a back light that emits light on the plurality of liquid crystal display panels. Each of the plurality of liquid crystal display panels includes, on a side surface opposing a side surface of the liquid crystal display panel adjacent thereto, a light shielding film that blocks the light from the back light.