US 12,439,802 B2
Display panel with insulating line and connecting line extending from auxiliary pixel circuit to auxiliary display element and display apparatus including the same
Gwuihyun Park, Yongin-si (KR); Kwangwoo Park, Yongin-si (KR); Koichi Sugitani, Yongin-si (KR); Chulwon Park, Yongin-si (KR); Saehee Han, Yongin-si (KR); and Pilsoon Hong, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/513,835.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0186770 (KR), filed on Dec. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0208866 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. H10K 59/65 (2023.01); H10K 59/121 (2023.01); H10K 59/124 (2023.01); H10K 59/131 (2023.01); H10K 71/00 (2023.01); H10K 59/12 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/65 (2023.02) [H10K 59/121 (2023.02); H10K 59/124 (2023.02); H10K 59/131 (2023.02); H10K 59/1315 (2023.02); H10K 71/00 (2023.02); H10K 59/1201 (2023.02)] 29 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display panel comprising:
a substrate including a main display area, a component area, and a peripheral area;
an auxiliary display element in the component area, the auxiliary display element includes a light producing emission layer disposed between an pixel electrode and an opposite electrode;
an auxiliary pixel circuit in the peripheral area, the auxiliary pixel circuit drives the auxiliary display element to emit light, the auxiliary pixel circuit including an auxiliary thin film transistor and an auxiliary storage capacitor;
a connecting line connecting the auxiliary display element to the auxiliary pixel circuit, the connecting line having at least a part in the component area;
an insulating line overlapping the connecting line in the component area; and
a first organic insulating layer and a second organic insulating layer stacked between the substrate and the auxiliary display element in the component area; and
a pixel defining layer disposed on the second organic insulating layer and on the pixel electrode, the emission layer and the opposite electrode are disposed on the pixel defining layer,
wherein the connecting line and the insulating line are disposed between the first organic insulating layer and the second organic insulating layer.