US 11,877,491 B2
Display panel
Jeaheon Ahn, Hwaseong-si (KR); Seok-Joon Hong, Seongnam-si (KR); YeoGeon Yoon, Suwon-si (KR); and Myoungjong Lee, Cheonan-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/509,120.
Application 17/509,120 is a continuation of application No. 16/706,908, filed on Dec. 9, 2019, granted, now 11,158,682.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0002732 (KR), filed on Jan. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0045134 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H10K 59/38 (2023.01); H10K 50/842 (2023.01); H10K 59/126 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/38 (2023.02) [H10K 50/8426 (2023.02); H10K 59/126 (2023.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display panel comprising:
a first base substrate defining:
a display area comprising a plurality of pixel areas and a light shielding area which is adjacent to each of the plurality of pixel areas, and
a non-display area which is adjacent to the display area;
a second base substrate facing the first base substrate;
a sealing member between the first base substrate and the second base substrate, wherein the sealing member surrounds the display area on a plane;
a display element layer disposed on the first base substrate;
a color control layer disposed on the display element layer; and
a color filter layer disposed on the color control layer and comprising:
a first color filter corresponding to a first pixel area among the plurality of pixel areas,
a second color filter corresponding to a second pixel area adjacent to the first pixel area among the plurality of pixel areas,
a third color filter comprising a filter portion corresponding to a third pixel area adjacent to the second pixel area among the plurality of pixel areas,
any one color filter among the first to third color filters further corresponding to the light shielding area, and
the one color filter being adjacent to each of the plurality of pixel areas and defining a plurality of openings of the color filter layer which respectively overlap other color filters.