Detailed Description
As described in the background, the AOI detection efficiency of the gate driving circuit of the array substrate having the color resistance is low compared to the array substrate having no color resistance. This is because, on the array substrate without color resistors, the gate driving circuit is not covered by the color resistors, and the AOI detection can be performed by using visible light imaging; on the basis of the fact that, on the array substrate with the color resistors, in order to reduce the step difference between the display area and the non-display area, the non-display area is also provided with the color resistors, namely the gate driving circuit is covered by the color resistors, most of visible light is filtered by the color resistors, and therefore the gate driving circuit covered by the color resistors cannot be subjected to AOI (automated optical inspection) by adopting the visible light.
The inventors have found that the AOI detection efficiency of the gate driver circuit can be improved by reducing the number of sub-gate driver circuits and the distribution density of devices such as TFTs. Accordingly, the present invention is directed to an array substrate to overcome the above problems of the prior art, the array substrate including a display area and a non-display area;
the display area comprises a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of color resistors, the gate lines and the data lines are crossed in an insulating mode to define a plurality of sub-pixel areas, and the color resistors are arranged corresponding to the sub-pixel areas; the non-display area comprises a gate driving circuit, the gate driving circuit comprises a plurality of sub-gate driving circuits, each sub-gate driving circuit is connected with the gate line, and at least one gate line is connected with one sub-gate driving circuit; wherein the length of the sub-gate driving circuit in the data line extending direction is greater than or equal to 1.5 times the length of the sub-pixel region in the data line extending direction.
In the array substrate provided by the invention, the number of the sub-gate drive circuits is small, so that the AOI detection efficiency of the gate drive circuit on the array substrate with color resistance can be relatively improved; in addition, the length of the sub-gate driving circuit in the extending direction of the data line is greater than or equal to 1.5 times of the length of the sub-pixel area in the extending direction of the data line, so that the distribution density of devices in the sub-gate driving circuit can be reduced, and the AOI detection efficiency of the gate driving circuit is further improved.
The foregoing is a core idea of the present invention, and in order to make the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, specific embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention, and not restrictive of the full scope of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic top view of an array substrate according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the array substrate includes a display area and a non-display area located around the display area. The display area includes a plurality of gate lines 20, a plurality of data lines 21, and a plurality of sub-pixel regions 22 defined by the insulated crossings of the plurality of gate lines 20 and the plurality of data lines 21, and the non-display area includes a data driving circuit 30 and a gate driving circuit 31.
Each sub-pixel region 22 is provided with a corresponding sub-pixel, and each sub-pixel includes a thin film transistor 23 and a pixel electrode 24 provided in the sub-pixel region 22. Referring to fig. 3, fig. 3 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the array substrate shown in fig. 2, the thin film transistor 23 includes a gate electrode 230, a source electrode 231, and a drain electrode 232 on the substrate 1, wherein the gate electrode 230 is connected to the corresponding gate line 20, the source electrode 231 is connected to the corresponding data line 21, and the drain electrode 232 is connected to the pixel electrode 24 through a via 240. In addition, the array substrate further includes a common electrode 25 disposed on the substrate 1, wherein the common electrode 25 is disposed corresponding to the plurality of sub-pixel regions 22, so as to drive the corresponding sub-pixels to display images by the voltage difference between the common electrode 25 and the pixel electrodes 24.
The array substrate in this embodiment further includes a color resist layer 26, where the color resist layer 26 includes a black matrix 260 and a plurality of color resists 261, the black matrix 260 defines a plurality of color resist regions in a display region of the array substrate, each color resist region is provided with one color resist 261, and the color resist 261 is provided corresponding to the sub-pixel region 22. Optionally, each color resistor 261 is disposed corresponding to one sub-pixel region 22, or each color resistor 261 is disposed corresponding to a plurality of sub-pixel regions 22.
In order to reduce the step difference between the display area and the non-display area, the color resistor 261 in this embodiment at least partially covers the sub-gate driving circuit 310. As shown in fig. 2, the color resistors 261 on the left and right sides of the array substrate at least partially cover the sub-gate driving circuit 310 adjacent thereto, and optionally, the color resistors 261 at least cover 80% of the area of the sub-gate driving circuit 310.
In the structure shown in fig. 3, the color resistance layer 26 is located between the thin film transistor layer and the pixel electrode layer, where the thin film transistor layer refers to the film layer where the thin film transistor 23 is located, and the pixel electrode layer refers to the film layer where the pixel electrode 24 is located, although the invention is not limited thereto, the color resistance layer 26 may be located between any two layers of the thin film transistor layer, the pixel electrode layer and the common electrode layer, that is, the color resistance layer 26 may be located between any two layers of the film layer where the thin film transistor 23 is located, the film layer where the pixel electrode 24 is located and the film layer where the common electrode 25 is located.
In the structure shown in fig. 3, the film layer where the common electrode 25 is located on the surface of the film layer where the pixel electrode 24 is located, but the invention is not limited thereto, and in other embodiments, as shown in fig. 4, fig. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional structure diagram of another array substrate provided in the embodiment of the invention, the film layer where the common electrode 25 is located between the film layer where the pixel electrode 24 is located and the color resistance layer 26, and at this time, the drain electrode 232 of the thin film transistor 23 is connected to the pixel electrode 24 on the color resistance surface through the via 241 penetrating through the corresponding color resistance and the corresponding common electrode 25.
In the present embodiment, referring to fig. 2, the data driving circuit 30 is connected to all the data lines 21 for supplying data signals to the data lines 21. The gate driving circuit 31 includes a plurality of sub-gate driving circuits 310, and each sub-gate driving circuit 310 is connected to the gate line 20 and is configured to provide a scanning signal to the gate line 20 to control the thin film transistor 23 connected to the gate line 20 to be turned on, so that the data signal in the data line 21 is transmitted to the pixel electrode 24 through the turned-on thin film transistor 23, and the sub-pixel corresponding to the pixel electrode 24 displays an image.
The sub-gate driving circuit 310 in this embodiment is a shift register, and the structure of the sub-gate driving circuit is the same as that of a shift register in an existing array substrate, and is not described herein again. In addition, in this embodiment, the connection relationship between the sub-gate driving circuits 310 is only one cascade connection manner of the shift register, and the present invention is not limited thereto, and in other embodiments, other cascade connection manners may be adopted between the sub-gate driving circuits 310.
In this embodiment, at least one gate line 20 is connected to one sub-gate driving circuit 310, so that the number of sub-gate driving circuits 310 on the array substrate can be reduced, and the AOI detection efficiency of the gate driving circuit 31 can be improved. On this basis, in the present embodiment, the sub-gate driving circuit 310 has a length L in the extending direction of the data line 21 (X direction shown by arrow in fig. 2)3Is greater than or equal to the length L of the sub-pixel region 22 in the extending direction of the data line 2141.5 times of the total number of the sub-gate driving circuits, so as to reduce the distribution density of devices such as TFTs in the sub-gate driving circuits, and further improve the AOI detection efficiency of the gate driving circuit 31 by improving the imaging definition. Optionally, in this embodiment, the length L of the sub-gate driving circuit 310 in the extending direction of the data line 21 is3Is equal to the length L of the sub-pixel region 22 in the extending direction of the data line 2141.7 times, so that the AOI detection efficiency of the gate driving circuit 31 on the array substrate with the color resistor 261 in the embodiment of the present invention is the same as or slightly higher than that of the gate driving circuit on the array substrate without the color resistor.
The length L of the sub-gate driving circuit 310 in the extending direction of the data line 21 is defined as follows3Is equal to the length L of the sub-pixel region 22 in the extending direction of the data line 214The structure of the array substrate will be described with reference to the specific embodiments by taking the 1.7 times as an example.
In a specific implementation manner, as shown in fig. 5, fig. 5 is a schematic top view structure diagram of another array substrate according to an embodiment of the present invention, each gate line 20 is connected to a sub-gate driving circuit 310, and the sub-gate driving circuits 310 are distributed on two opposite sides of the array substrate. In the structure shown in fig. 5, the plurality of gate lines 20 are sequentially arranged along the extending direction of the data line 21, and optionally, the sub-gate driving circuits 310 of the gate lines 20 that are ordered as odd numbers along the direction X shown by the arrow in fig. 5 are located on one side of the array substrate, and the sub-gate driving circuits 310 of the gate lines 20 that are ordered as even numbers along the direction X shown by the arrow in fig. 5 are located on the other side of the array substrate opposite to each other, so as to improve the uniformity of the distribution of the sub-gate driving circuits 310, and further improve the AOI detection efficiency of the gate driving circuit 31.
In another specific implementation, as shown in fig. 6, fig. 6 is a schematic top view structure of another array substrate according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which the plurality of gate lines 20 includes at least one first gate line 201 and at least one second gate line 202, each first gate line 201 is connected to one sub-gate driving circuit 310, and optionally, the sub-gate driving circuits 310 connected to two adjacent first gate lines 201 are respectively located at two opposite sides of the array substrate; each second gate line 202 is connected to two sub-gate driving circuits 310, the two sub-gate driving circuits 310 are respectively located at two opposite sides of the array substrate, and the two sub-gate driving circuits 310 are respectively connected to two ends of the second gate line 202.
In the structure shown in fig. 6, at least one first gate line 201 and at least one second gate line 202 are sequentially arranged along the extending direction of the data line 21 (X direction as indicated by arrow in fig. 6), i.e., all the first gate lines 201 are sequentially arranged at the upper portion of the array substrate, and all the second gate lines 202 are sequentially arranged at the lower portion of the array substrate.
However, in another embodiment, as shown in fig. 7, fig. 7 is a schematic top view structure diagram of another array substrate according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which at least one second gate line 202 and at least one first gate line 201 are sequentially arranged along the extending direction of the data line 21, that is, all the second gate lines 202 are sequentially arranged on the upper portion of the array substrate, and all the first gate lines 201 are sequentially arranged on the lower portion of the array substrate.
Alternatively, in other embodiments, as shown in fig. 8, fig. 8 is a schematic top view structure diagram of another array substrate according to an embodiment of the present invention, the first gate lines 201 and the second gate lines 202 may be arranged at intervals, and optionally, the sub-gate driving circuits 310 connected to two adjacent first gate lines 201 are respectively located at two opposite sides of the array substrate, which is not limited in the present invention.
In addition, it should be noted that the color resistors 261 in this embodiment include a red color resistor, a green color resistor, and a blue color resistor, and of course, in other embodiments, the color resistors 261 may also include a red color resistor, a green color resistor, a blue color resistor, and a white color resistor, and the invention is not limited thereto. In this embodiment, the color of the sub-pixel is determined by the color of the color resistor corresponding to the sub-pixel, that is, if the color of the color resistor is red, the display color of the corresponding sub-pixel is also red, if the color of the color resistor is green, the display color of the corresponding sub-pixel is also green, and if the color of the color resistor is blue, the display color of the corresponding sub-pixel is also blue. Therefore, the image can be displayed by mixing the colors of the sub-pixels with different colors.
According to the array substrate provided by the embodiment of the invention, because at least one gate line is connected with one sub-gate driving circuit, compared with the scheme that each gate line is connected with two sub-gate driving circuits in the prior art, the number of the sub-gate driving circuits is less, so that the AOI detection efficiency of the gate driving circuits on the array substrate with color resistance can be relatively improved; moreover, on the basis of reducing the number of the sub-gate driving circuits, the length of the sub-gate driving circuit in the extending direction of the data line can be more than or equal to 1.5 times of the length of the sub-pixel area in the extending direction of the data line, so that the distribution density of devices in the sub-gate driving circuit can be reduced, and the AOI detection efficiency of the gate driving circuit is further improved.
As shown in fig. 9, the display panel further includes an array substrate 90 provided in any of the above embodiments and an opposite substrate 91 disposed opposite to the array substrate 90, and in a specific embodiment of the present invention, the display panel further includes a liquid crystal layer 92 disposed between the array substrate 90 and the opposite substrate 91, which is not described herein again. Based on the array substrate structure, the manufacturing time of the display panel in the embodiment is short, and the cost is low.
The embodiments in the present description are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other. The previous description of the disclosed embodiments is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.