US 11,943,958 B2
Display panel and display apparatus
Yuichiro Ishiyama, Tokyo (JP); and Takahiro Seki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to JOLED INC., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/421,242
Filed by JOLED INC., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 8, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/000273
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 7, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/145296, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-001931 (JP), filed on Jan. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0123258 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H01L 29/08 (2006.01); H10K 50/844 (2023.01); H10K 59/12 (2023.01); H10K 77/10 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 50/844 (2023.02) [H10K 59/12 (2023.02); H10K 77/111 (2023.02)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display panel comprising:
a flexible substrate;
a plurality of self-luminescent elements provided on a first main face of the flexible substrate;
a plurality of thin film transistor (TFT) circuits provided between the first main face and the plurality of self-luminescent elements and driving the self-luminescent elements;
a first inorganic film provided between the plurality of TFT circuits and the plurality of self-luminescent elements, covering the TFT circuits, and having a step portion, the step portion being a thinned portion of the first inorganic film opposed to an end portion of the flexible substrate;
a second inorganic film covering the self-luminescent elements; and
a resin layer covering the second inorganic film and covering at least a portion of the first inorganic film in contact with an end portion of the second inorganic film.