Display device
AssigneeJapan Display Inc.
InventorMasamitsu Furuie
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Abstract
A display device, which includes a display region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, includes a first organic insulating film, a first groove, which exists in a frame shape surrounding the display region to separate the first organic insulating film, a first inorganic partition portion, which is arranged in the first groove, and is made of an inorganic insulating material that exists in a frame shape surrounding the display region, a second organic insulating film formed above the first organic insulating film and the first inorganic partition portion, and a second groove, which exists in a frame shape surrounding the display region to separate the second organic insulating film, and is located inside the first groove in plan view.
Claims15
1-15. (canceled)
16:
- A display device, comprising:
- a display region in which pixels are arranged;
- a first inorganic partition portion;
- a first organic insulating film;
- a first groove extending along the display region in a plan view;
- a second groove extending along the display region in a plan view;
- a second organic insulation film;
- a third groove extending along the display region in a plan view;
- a fourth groove extending along the display region in a plan view;
- wherein the first groove separates the first organic insulation film,
- the second groove separates the first organic insulation film,
- the third groove separates the second organic insulation film,
- the fourth groove separates the second organic insulation film,
- the first inorganic partition portion includes an upper surface that is below an upper surface of the second organic insulating film,
- the second groove is close to the display region,
- the third groove is inside the first groove in a plan view, and
- the fourth groove is inside the second groove in a plan view.
17:
- A display device according to claim 16, wherein
- the first groove has a frame shape surrounding the display region.
18:
- A display device according to claim 17, wherein
- the third groove has a frame shape surrounding the display region.
19:
- A display device according to claim 17, wherein
- the second groove has a frame shape surrounding the display region.
20:
- A display device according to claim 18, wherein
- the second groove has a frame shape surrounding the display region.
21:
- A display device according to claim 16, wherein
- the first groove extends along the second groove.
22:
- The display device according to claim 16, further comprising:
- a pixel electrode which is above the first organic insulating film;
- an inorganic insulating film which is below the first organic insulating film;
- and
- a lower electrode which is between the first organic insulating film and the inorganic insulating film and which is connected to the pixel electrode via an interlayer connection hole formed in the first organic insulating film,
- wherein, between the first inorganic partition portion and the inorganic insulating film, wirings in a same layer as the lower electrode extend across a region of the first inorganic partition portion.
23:
- The display device according to claim 16, further comprising:
- an inorganic insulating film below the first organic insulating film;
- and
- a lower electrode arranged between the first organic insulating film and the inorganic insulating film which is connected to a pixel electrode via an interlayer connection hole in the first organic insulating film,
- wherein a circuit element including a conductive film in a same layer as the lower electrode is below the first inorganic partition portion.
24:
- The display device according to claim 16, further comprising:
- an inorganic insulating film between the first organic insulating film and the second organic insulating film;
- and
- a counter electrode between the first organic insulating film and the inorganic insulating film which is opposed to a pixel electrode with the inorganic insulating film being interposed between the counter electrode and the pixel electrode,
- wherein at least one of a part of the inorganic insulating film is above the first inorganic partition portion.
25:
- The display device according to claim 16, further comprising:
- an inorganic insulating film between the first organic insulating film and the second organic insulating film;
- and
- a counter electrode between the first organic insulating film and the inorganic insulating film which is opposed to a pixel electrode with the inorganic insulating film being interposed between the counter electrode and the pixel electrode,
- wherein at least one of a part of a conductive film in a same layer as the counter electrode is above the first inorganic partition portion.
26:
- The display device according to claim 16, wherein a conductive film in a same layer as a pixel electrode is above the first inorganic partition portion.
27:
- The display device according to claim 16, further comprising:
- an inorganic insulating film below the first organic insulating film;
- and
- a lower electrode between the first organic insulating film and the inorganic insulating film which is connected to a pixel electrode via an interlayer connection hole formed in the first organic insulating film,
- wherein the first inorganic partition portion includes at least one of a part of the inorganic insulating film or a conductive film in a same layer as the lower electrode.
28:
- The display device according to claim 16, further comprising:
- an organic film which is arranged on a pixel electrode in an aperture formed in the second organic insulating film and includes a light emitting layer;
- and
- a counter electrode on the organic film.
29:
- The display device according to claim 16, wherein an organic material does not extend across a region of the first inorganic partition portion.