US 12,457,877 B2
Display panel including junction area with asymmetric shape
Cheho Lim, Cheonan-si (KR); Yeogeon Yoon, Seoul (KR); Juyong Kim, Busan (KR); Sangyeon Hwang, Anyang-si (KR); Seungkil Yang, Cheonan-si (KR); and Seon Uk Lee, Seongnam-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/894,904.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0154533 (KR), filed on Nov. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0146173 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. H10K 59/38 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/38 (2023.02) 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display panel comprising:
a light emitting device layer comprising a plurality of light emitting areas to emit a first color light;
a partition layer on the light emitting device layer, and having a plurality of first openings corresponding to the plurality of light emitting areas, respectively; and
a plurality of light control patterns located within the plurality of first openings, respectively, at least one of the plurality of light control patterns being configured to convert the first color light into a second color light,
wherein the partition layer comprises:
a plurality of first partitions defining the plurality of first openings, respectively;
a plurality of second partitions connected to adjacent ones of the first partitions that are adjacent thereto in a plan view, the plurality of second partitions comprising a first type of second partition; and
a junction area corresponding to a location where the first type of second partition is joined to a first partition from among the adjacent ones of the first partitions in the plan view, and
wherein, in the plan view, the junction area comprises a first-side area, and a second-side area having an asymmetric shape with respect to the first-side area based on an extending direction in which the first type of second partition extends.