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US 11698667
Display panel and flexible display device
Current assignee: BOE Technology Group Co Ltd
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Patent Overview — US 11698667 B2
Title: Display panel and flexible display device
Patent number: US 11698667 B2
Application number: US17/256,093
Inventors: Liqiang Chen, Xiangfei He, Weifeng Zhou
Current assignees: [BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.](/litigations/by-plaintiff/BOE%20Technology%20Group%20Co.%2C%20Ltd.); Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
Priority date: 2019-06-13 | Filing date: 2020-06-12 | Grant/publication date: 2023-07-11
Legal status: Active, adjusted expiration 2041-03-19 (status as listed; not a legal conclusion)
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11698667/en
Purpose. The patent addresses narrow-border flexible display panels. In pad bonding, a bendable region between a display region and a binding region of a panel is bent toward the back side of the display region so the binding region sits behind the display region, reducing border width. The disclosure aims to improve signal transmission through that bendable region.
Plain-language scope. A display panel has a panel main body with a display region, a bendable region, and a binding region. Signal transmission lines run from the display region to the binding region through the bendable region. An enhancement layer in the bendable region includes an electrode layer with at least one auxiliary electrode; each auxiliary electrode corresponds to, and is electrically connected to, one signal transmission line, with different auxiliary electrodes corresponding to different lines. In embodiments, an auxiliary electrode connects to its signal transmission line via an anisotropic conductive adhesive to form parallel conductive channels. The enhancement layer may include a flexible substrate (e.g., polyimide) on a side of the electrode layer distal to the panel main body. The disclosure also describes arrangements of auxiliary electrodes and signal transmission lines whose length-direction virtual extension lines intersect at a common convergence point on a reference line, and electrode materials such as single-layer Mo or Ag, Mo/Al/Mo, or Ti/Al/Ti. A second aspect covers a flexible display device comprising such a panel.
What the excerpt does not establish. The supplied text lists classifications (e.g., G06F1/1652, H10K59/1315) and definitions but does not provide the full claims, the complete description, drawing content (e.g., FIG. 1), a prior-art discussion, cited references, or an examination history. It therefore does not establish the exact claim scope, validity, or the figures' details beyond the captions quoted above.
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