# US 12,112,685 B2 · Gate driver on array circuit and display panel

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- Number: US 12,112,685 B2
- Document ID: US12112685B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/623,630
- Filed: 2021-06-01
- Published: 2024-02-15
- Granted: 2024-10-08
- Earliest claimed: 2021-05-18
- Assignees: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: You Pan
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12112685B2

## CPC

- G09G 3/30: using electroluminescent panels
- G09G 3/3677: {suitable for active matrices only}
- G09G 3/3266: Details of drivers for scan electrodes
- G11C 19/28: using semiconductor elements (G11C19/14, G11C19/36 take precedence)
- G09G 2300/0408: Integration of the drivers onto the display substrate
- G09G 2310/0267: Details of drivers for scan electrodes, other than drivers for liquid crystal, plasma or OLED displays
- G09G 2310/0286: Details of a shift registers arranged for use in a driving circuit
- G09G 2310/08: Details of timing specific for flat panels, other than clock recovery
- G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00)
- G11C: STATIC STORES (semiconductor memory devices H10B)

## Abstract

A Gate Driver on Array (GOA) circuit and a display panel are provided. The GOA circuit includes a plurality of cascaded GOA units. An Nth stage GOA unit includes a pull-up control circuit, a pull-up output circuit and a scan direction control circuit. The scan direction control circuit can be controlled by the clock signal to realize the alternating forward and backward scanning. The output terminal of the scan direction control circuit is connected with the output terminal of the pull-up control circuit, and the output terminal potential of the pull-up control circuit can be alternately changed.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A Gate Driver on Array (GOA) circuit, comprising a plurality of cascaded GOA units, an Nth stage GOA unit comprising:
a high voltage level line, configured to transmit high voltage level signal;
an Nth stage scan line, configured to transmit an Nth stage scan signal;
a first transistor, having a first electrode coupled to the high voltage level line;
a second transistor, having a first electrode coupled to the high voltage level line;
a third transistor, having a gate coupled to a second electrode of the first transistor and a second electrode of the second transistor, and a first electrode coupled to the Nth stage scan line;
a first clock line, configured to transmit a first clock signal;
a second clock line, configured to transmit a second clock signal;
a fourth transistor, having a first electrode coupled to the first clock line, and a gate coupled to the first electrode;
a fifth transistor, having a first electrode coupled to a second electrode of the fourth transistor, and a second electrode coupled to the second electrode of the first transistor;
a sixth transistor, having a first electrode coupled to the second clock signal, and a gate electrode coupled to the first electrode; and
a seventh transistor, having a first electrode coupled to a second electrode of the sixth transistor, and a second electrode coupled to the second electrode of the second transistor.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the Nth stage GOA unit further comprises:
a low voltage level line, configured to transmit a low voltage level signal;
an eighth transistor, having a first electrode coupled to the high voltage level line;
a ninth transistor, having a gate coupled to a second electrode of the eighth transistor, a first electrode coupled to the low voltage level line, and a second electrode coupled to the Nth stage scan line; and
a tenth transistor, having a gate coupled to the second electrode of the first transistor, a first electrode coupled to the low voltage level signal, and a second electrode coupled to the gate of the ninth transistor.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 2, wherein the Nth stage GOA unit further comprises:
an eleventh transistor, having a first electrode coupled to the low voltage level line, a second electrode coupled to the second electrode of the first transistor, and a gate coupled to the second of the tenth transistor.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 3, wherein the Nth stage GOA unit further comprises:
a twelfth transistor, having a first electrode coupled to the low voltage level line, and a second electrode coupled to the second electrode of the first transistor.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 4, wherein the Nth stage GOA unit further comprises:
a first scan line, coupled to the gate of the first transistor and configured to transmit a first scan signal;
a second scan line, coupled to the gate of the second transistor and configured to transmit a second scan signal;
a forward scan control line, coupled to a gate of the fifth transistor and configured to transmit a forward scan control signal;
a backward scan control line, coupled to a gate of the seventh transistor and configured to transmit a backward scan control signal;
a third clock line, coupled to a second electrode of the third transistor and configured to transmit a third clock signal; and
a fourth clock line, coupled to a gate of the eighth transistor and a gate of the twelfth transistor, and configured to transmit a fourth clock signal.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the Nth stage GOA unit further comprises:
a thirteenth transistor, having a gate coupled to the high voltage level line, a first electrode coupled to a second electrode of the first transistor, and a second electrode.

### Claim 7

A Gate Driver on Array (GOA) circuit, comprising a plurality of cascaded GOA units, an Nth stage GOA unit comprising:
a pull-up control circuit, having an input end fed with a high voltage level signal, and a control end fed with an (N−2)th stage scan signal and an (N+2)th stage scan signal;
a pull-up output circuit, having a control end coupled to an output end of the pull-up control circuit, an input end coupled to an Nth stage clock signal, and an output end outputting coupled to an Nth stage scan signal; and
a scan direction control circuit, having an input end fed with an (N−2)th stage clock signal and an (N+2)th stage clock signal, an output end coupled to the control end of the pull-up control circuit, and a control end fed with a forward scan control signal, a backward scan control signal, the (N−2)th stage clock signal and the (N+2)th stage clock signal.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 7, wherein the Nth stage GOA unit further comprises:
a pull-down control circuit, having an input end fed with the high voltage level signal, and a control end fed with an (N+4)th stage clock signal; and
a pull-down output circuit, having a control end coupled to the control end of the pull-down control circuit, an input end fed with a low voltage level signal, and an output end coupled to the output end of the pull-up output circuit.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 8, wherein the Nth stage GOA unit further comprises:
a first pull-down circuit, having an input end fed with the low voltage level signal, a control end coupled to an output end of the pull-up control circuit, and an output end coupled to an output end of the pull-down control circuit.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 9, wherein the Nth stage GOA unit further comprises:
a second pull-down circuit, having an input end fed with the low voltage level signal, an output end coupled to the output end of the pull-up control circuit, and a control end coupled to the output end of the pull-down control circuit.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 10, wherein the Nth stage GOA unit further comprises:
a third pull-down circuit, having an input end fed with the low voltage level signal, an output end coupled to the output end of the pull-up control circuit, and a control end coupled to the (N+4)th stage clock signal.

### Claim 12 (depends on 8)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 8, wherein the Nth stage GOA unit further comprises:
a first voltage stabilizing circuit, coupled to the output end of the pull-up control circuit and fed with the low voltage level signal; and
a second voltage stabilizing circuit, coupled to the output end of the pull-down control circuit and fed with the low voltage level signal.

### Claim 13 (depends on 7)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 7, wherein the Nth stage GOA unit further comprises:
a third voltage stabilizing circuit, having an input end coupled to the output end of the pull-up control circuit, a control end fed with the high voltage level signal, and an output end coupled to the output end of the pull-up output circuit; or
a global pull-up circuit, having an input end fed with an global pull-up signal, a control end fed with the global pull-up signal, and an output end coupled to the output end of pull-up output circuit; or
a global pull-down circuit, having an input end fed with the low voltage level signal, a control end fed with the global pull-down signal, and an output end coupled to the output end of pull-up output circuit.

### Claim 14 (depends on 7)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 7, wherein the pull-up control circuit comprises:
a first thin film transistor, having a first electrode fed with the high voltage level signal, and a gate fed with the (N−2)th stage scan signal; and
a second thin film transistor, having a first electrode fed with the high voltage level signal, a gate fed with the (N+2)th stage scan signal, and a second electrode coupled to a second electrode of the first thin film transistor and the output end of the scan direction control circuit.

### Claim 15 (depends on 7)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 7, wherein the scan direction control circuit comprises:
a forward scan control circuit, having an input end fed with the (N+2)th stage clock signal, and a control end fed with the (N+2)th stage clock signal and the forward scan control signal; and
a backward scan control circuit, having an input end fed with the (N−2)th stage clock signal, a control end fed with the (N−2)th stage clock signal and the backward scan control signal, and an output end coupled to an output end of the forward scan control circuit and the control end of the pull-up control circuit.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 15, wherein the forward scan control circuit comprises:
a third thin film transistor, having a first electrode fed with the (N+2)th stage clock signal, and a gate fed with the (N+2)th stage clock signal; and
a fourth thin film transistor, having a first electrode coupled to a second electrode of the third thin film transistor, a gate fed with the forward scan control signal, and a second electrode coupled to the output end of the pull-up control circuit; and
wherein the backward scan control circuit comprises:
a fifth thin film transistor, having a first electrode fed with the (N−2)th stage clock signal, and a gate fed with the (N−2)th stage clock signal; and
a sixth thin film transistor, having a first electrode coupled to a second electrode of the fifth thin film transistor, a gate fed with the backward scan control signal, and a second electrode coupled to the output end of the pull-up control circuit.

### Claim 17 (depends on 16)

The GOA circuit as claimed in claim 16, wherein the pull-up output circuit comprises: a seventh thin film transistor, having a gate coupled to the second electrode of the fourth thin film transistor or the second electrode of the sixth thin film transistor, a first electrode fed with an Nth clock signal, and a second electrode outputting the Nth scan signal.

### Claim 18 (depends on 1)

A display panel comprising the GOA circuit as claimed in claim 1.

### Claim 19 (depends on 18)

The display panel as claimed in claim 18, wherein a working stage of the display panel includes a row scanning stage that includes a touch scanning stage; and the GOA circuit works in the row scanning stage and the touch scanning stage in a time-sharing manner.