Oled lighting device with short tolerant structure

A device, comprising:

• a substrate;
• a plurality of segmented bus lines;
• and
• a plurality of OLED circuit elements disposed on the substrate, each of the plurality of OLED circuit elements comprising:
• exactly one pixel, the exactly one pixel comprising:
• a first electrode;
• a second electrode;
• and
• an organic electroluminescent (EL) material disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode;
• and
• a fuse adapted to open an electrical connection in response to excess current in the pixel;
• wherein each of the plurality of OLED circuit elements is not electrically connected in series with any other of the plurality of OLED circuit elements;
• wherein the plurality of segmented bus lines electrically connect the first electrode of each of the plurality of OLED circuit elements together;
• and
• wherein no first electrode of any of the plurality of OLED circuit elements directly physically connects to the first electrode of any other of the plurality of OLED circuit elements.

A device, comprising:

• a substrate;
• a plurality of segmented bus lines;
• and
• a plurality of OLED circuit elements disposed on the substrate, each of the plurality of OLED circuit elements comprising:
• exactly one pixel, the exactly one pixel comprising:
• a first electrode;
• a second electrode;
• and
• an organic electroluminescent (EL) material disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode;
• and
• a fuse adapted to open an electrical connection in response to excess current in the pixel;
• wherein each of the plurality of OLED circuit elements is not electrically connected in series with any other of the plurality of OLED circuit elements;
• wherein the plurality of OLED circuit elements comprises at least three OLED circuit elements;
• wherein each of the plurality of segmented bus lines electrically connects exactly two of the plurality of OLED circuit elements;
• and
• wherein no segmented bus line of the plurality of segmented bus lines connects to any other segmented bus line of the plurality of segmented bus lines.