US 12,016,214 B2
Display panel with conductive portion overlapping power pads
Chung-Seok Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR); and Hayoung Choi, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed on Jun. 8, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/895,325.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0097665 (KR), filed on Aug. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0043711 A1, Feb. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. H10K 59/131 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/131 (2023.02) 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display panel comprising:
a base substrate in which a first area, a second area, and a third area are sequentially defined in a first direction;
pixels disposed on the first area;
signal lines disposed on the base substrate and electrically connected to the pixels;
a power line disposed on the base substrate, wherein the power line supplies a power to the pixels;
signal pads disposed on the second area, arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, and electrically connected to the signal lines;
power pads disposed on the second area, arranged in the second direction, and electrically connected to the power line; and
a conductive portion comprising a first sub-conductive portion disposed on the second area of the base substrate and overlapping the power pads and a second sub-conductive portion disposed on the third area of the base substrate and spaced apart from the first sub-conductive portion,
wherein the first sub-conductive portion and the second sub-conductive portion are electrically connected to a plurality of the same power pads arranged contiguous to each other in the second direction and the power line, and
wherein an opening is defined in the second sub-conductive portion by a removed portion thereof.