Stretchable Display Panels With Elastic Fillers for Packaging Reliability

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing stretchable display panels face packaging failures due to weak perforated structures and rupture of packaging layers during stretching and bending, especially when stripped from a glass substrate.

Innovation Solution

Incorporating an elastic filling layer made of organic materials like PMMA, PDMS, PU, PPS, silica gel, or silicon compounds within the perforated regions, which provides reinforcement and prevents rupture of inner side walls, while maintaining flexibility.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If perforated structures are used in stretchable display panels, then flexibility and stretchability are improved, but packaging reliability deteriorates due to weak inner side walls

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveflexibilityVSAvoidpackaging reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by introducing an elastic filling layer specifically within the perforated regions where weakness occurs, while maintaining the original perforated structure for flexibility. The elastic filling layer is placed locally at the inner side walls of perforated structures to provide reinforcement exactly where needed, without affecting the overall flexible nature of the display panel.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses composite materials by combining the rigid base structure with an elastic filling layer made of organic materials. This composite construction allows the display panel to maintain both the flexibility provided by the perforated structure and the packaging reliability provided by the elastic filling layer, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Adaptability or versatility

If perforated structures are used in stretchable display panels, then stretchability is improved, but packaging layer integrity deteriorates during stretching and bending

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovestretchabilityVSAvoidpackaging layer integrity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies beforehand cushioning by placing the elastic filling layer in advance within the perforated regions before the display panel undergoes stretching or bending. This pre-positioned elastic layer acts as a cushion that prevents rupture of the packaging layer during subsequent mechanical deformation, maintaining integrity while allowing stretchability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

Solution Approach 2:

The elastic filling layer serves as an intermediary between the rigid base structure and the packaging layer. It mediates the mechanical stresses during stretching and bending, absorbing and distributing forces to prevent direct transmission that would cause packaging layer rupture, thus maintaining integrity while preserving stretchability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If packaging layer is made thin for flexibility, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to easy rupture

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveflexibilityVSAvoidanti-rupture capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by reinforcing only the critical areas (inner side walls of perforated structures) with elastic filling layer, while keeping the packaging layer thin in other areas to maintain flexibility. This localized reinforcement provides anti-rupture capability exactly where stress concentrates, without adding unnecessary thickness that would reduce flexibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The elastic filling layer acts as an intermediary protective element between the thin packaging layer and the mechanical stresses it encounters. It provides the necessary support to prevent rupture of the thin packaging layer while allowing it to remain thin for flexibility, effectively decoupling the thickness from the strength requirement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

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

Enhances packaging reliability and maintains stretching and bending performance by reducing the failure probability of packaging layers, ensuring the display panel's structural integrity.

Implementation Method 1

an elastic filling layer disposed in the perforated region

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElasticity: Elasticity

Data Source

PatentUS12433146B2Stretchable display panel and method for manufacturing stretchable display panel
Publication Date: 2025.09.30 BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure provides a display panel, a display device and a method for manufacturing a display panel. The display panel includes: a base, wherein the base includes a plurality of island regions and at least one perforated region, and the perforated region has an opening that penetrate through the base; and pixel units disposed in the island regions and an elastic filling layer disposed in each of the at least one perforated region.