Display device and manufacturing method therefor
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTohru Senoo, Takeshi Hirase, Hisao Ochi, Takashi Ochi, Tohru Sonoda, Akihiro Matsui, Yoshinobu Miyamoto, Jumpei Takahashi
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Abstract
An organic EL display device includes an organic EL element disposed on a flattening film, and a sealing film disposed over the organic EL element, a display region, and a frame region disposed around the display region. The frame region includes a plurality of mask spacers. The flattening film has a recess disposed between the display region and the mask spacers adjacent to the display region. The recess is filled with an organic film.
Claims10
A display device comprising:
- a base substrate;
- a plurality of switching elements disposed on the base substrate;
- a flattening film disposed on the plurality of switching elements;
- a light-emitting element disposed on the flattening film;
- a sealing film disposed over the light-emitting element, the sealing film comprising a stack of, in sequence, a first inorganic film, an organic film, and a second inorganic film;
- and
- a display region and a frame region disposed around the display region,
- wherein the frame region includes a plurality of mask spacers,
- the flattening film has a recess disposed between the display region and the plurality of mask spacers adjacent to the display region,
- the recess is filled with the organic film,
- the frame region includes a monolithic gate driver region, and
- the recess is disposed between the display region and the monolithic gate driver region.
A method for manufacturing a display device,
- the display device including
- a base substrate,
- a plurality of switching elements disposed on the base substrate,
- a flattening film disposed on the plurality of switching elements,
- a light-emitting element disposed on the flattening film,
- a sealing film disposed over the light-emitting element, the sealing film comprising a stack of, in sequence, a first inorganic film, an organic film, and a second inorganic film, and
- a display region and a frame region disposed around the display region,
- the method comprising at least:
- forming a recess in the flattening film when forming the flattening film so as to cover the plurality of switching elements disposed on the base substrate;
- forming a plurality of mask spacers onto the flattening film, in the frame region disposed more remotely from the display region than the recess is;
- forming the first inorganic film onto a surface of the recess and surfaces of the plurality of mask spacers;
- and
- ejecting, through ink jetting, an organic resin material all over a surface of the base substrate provided with the first inorganic film, to form the organic film onto a surface of the first inorganic film and to fill the recess with the organic resin material, wherein
- the filling comprises
- when an inkjet passes through the recess, changing an ejection timing in such a manner that the organic resin material lands in the recess,
- the ejection timing is defined by an application frequency f expressed by Expression 1 as follows, and
- the ejection timing equals 1/f in a normal region except a region where the recess is located, and the ejection timing is shorter than 1/f in the region where the recess is located:
- [Expression 1]
- f=pvt/(nV) (1),
- where p denotes a nozzle pitch in the ink jetting, where V denotes an ejection volume per drop, where v denotes a scanning rate in the ink jetting, where n denotes a number of scanning times in the ink jetting, which is a number of times of dropping into an application region, where t denotes a desired thickness of the organic film.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.