US 12,274,148 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 Jan. 16, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/413,154.
Application 18/413,154 is a continuation of application No. 17/509,120, filed on Oct. 25, 2021, granted, now 11,877,491.
Application 17/509,120 is a continuation of application No. 16/706,908, filed on Dec. 9, 2019, granted, now 11,158,682, issued on Oct. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0002732 (KR), filed on Jan. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0155909 A1, May 9, 2024
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 and a second base substrate facing each other;
the 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 and includes a sealing member between the first base substrate and the second base substrate; and
a color filter layer disposed on the sealing member, the color filter layer 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, and
any one color filter among the first to third color filters defining a plurality of openings of the color filter layer which respectively overlap other color filters,
the any one of the color filter which defines the plurality openings overlapping the sealing member, and
at least two or more color filters among the first, second, and third color filters overlapping each other in the light shielding area.