Strip-Shaped Display Structure for Seamless Splicing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Large-size liquid crystal display screens face display quality issues due to seams between spliced sub-display panels, leading to uniformity and quality problems.

Innovation Solution

A strip-shaped display structure with a main body part and extension part, featuring a strip-shaped display part and driver circuit, which can be bent to cover gaps between sub-display panels, ensuring seamless splicing and improved display quality.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Area of stationary object

If multiple small-size sub-display panels are spliced to obtain a large-size display screen, then the display screen size is increased, but seam-related defects and display uniformity deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay screen sizeVSAvoiddisplay uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

A flexible strip-shaped display structure is introduced as an intermediary component between adjacent sub-display panels. This strip includes a display region that fills the gap between panels and a foldable portion that enables seamless connection. The strip-shaped display structure acts as a mediator that eliminates visible seams while maintaining display uniformity across the entire large-size screen.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The strip-shaped display structure extends in the vertical direction (along the splicing direction) rather than only in the horizontal direction. By adding this vertical extension dimension, the display structure can cover the gap between sub-panels and provide seamless splicing, thereby improving display uniformity while maintaining large screen size.

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

2Manufacturing precision

If a strip-shaped display structure with foldable portion is used to cover gaps between sub-display panels, then display uniformity is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay uniformityVSAvoidstructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The strip-shaped display structure incorporates a foldable portion made of flexible materials that can be bent and folded. This flexibility allows the structure to adapt to the gap between sub-display panels and be stacked against the back surface, achieving seamless splicing without requiring complex mechanical mechanisms or additional support structures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Solution Approach 2:

The foldable portion of the strip-shaped display structure is designed to be folded back and stacked against the back surface of the sub-display panel when not in use. This nesting arrangement minimizes the occupied space and simplifies the overall device structure while maintaining the capability to cover gaps and improve display uniformity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Manufacturing precision

If the extension part is bent away from the light exit side to cover gaps, then seamless splicing is achieved, but the structural stability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveseamless splicingVSAvoidstructural stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The strip-shaped display structure utilizes flexible materials that can be bent and folded without compromising structural integrity. The foldable portion can be bent away from the light exit side to cover gaps between sub-panels, and the flexibility of the material ensures that the structure remains stable and maintains its functional properties during bending and stacking.

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 enhances display uniformity and quality by covering gaps between sub-display panels, eliminating seam-related defects and providing consistent display effects across the entire panel.

Implementation Method 1

each of the color sub-pixels includes a light emitting device

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectroluminescence: Electroluminescence

Data Source

PatentUS11988930B2Strip-shaped display structure, display panel and display apparatus
Publication Date: 2024.05.21 BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECH CO LTD
  • US11988930B2 patent drawing
  • US11988930B2 patent drawing
  • US11988930B2 patent drawing

AI summary

A strip-shaped display structure, a display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The strip-shaped main body part includes a strip-shaped display part, extending along a first direction and including a plurality of pixels arranged in an array and a driver circuit; the strip-shaped display part is at a first end part of the strip-shaped main body part; the extension part is connected to a second end part opposite to the first end part of the strip-shaped main body part, and is configured to be bendable from the second end part of the strip-shaped main body part along a bend axis parallel to the first direction to be away from a light exit side of the light emitting device of the pixels; the extension part includes a connection signal line; the connection signal line is connected to the driver circuit to provide a display signal to the driver circuit.