Disclosure of Invention
The application aims to provide a display panel and a display device, which realize the switching of the display panel in peep-proof display and normal display by controlling the direction of reflecting light rays emitted into the display panel from the outside by a mirror surface coating.
The application discloses a display panel, which comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, a peep-proof layer, a plurality of peep-proof components and a plurality of driving electrodes, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are oppositely arranged, the peep-proof layer is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, the peep-proof components are arranged in the peep-proof layer, each peep-proof component comprises a hollow shell and a peep-proof body arranged in the hollow shell, the hollow shell is provided with the plurality of driving electrodes, the peep-proof body is provided with a mirror surface coating and a charging part, and the charging part and the mirror surface coating are arranged at intervals, and the driving electrodes are electrified to drive the charging part to enable the peep-proof body to rotate so as to control the mirror surface coating to rotate, so that peep-proof display and normal display of the display panel are realized.
Optionally, the peep-proof layer includes a driving circuit layer, a pixel definition layer and a light-emitting component, the pixel definition layer divides a plurality of sub-pixel areas, the sub-pixel areas include a first sub-pixel area and a second sub-pixel area, the first sub-pixel area and the second sub-pixel area are arranged at intervals, the peep-proof component is arranged in the first sub-pixel area, the light-emitting component is arranged in the second sub-pixel area, and the light-emitting component includes an anode layer, a light-emitting layer and a cathode layer which are sequentially arranged.
Optionally, the peep-proof layer includes a driving circuit layer, a pixel definition layer and a light-emitting component, the pixel definition layer divides a plurality of sub-pixel areas, the light-emitting component is arranged in the sub-pixel areas, and the peep-proof component is arranged on the pixel definition layer, wherein the light-emitting component includes an anode layer, a light-emitting layer and a cathode layer which are sequentially arranged.
Optionally, the driving electrodes are arranged in the hollow shell in a circular array, and the driving electrodes are symmetrically arranged along the central axis of the hollow shell, wherein when the peep-proof piece is driven to rotate, the voltages of the two driving electrodes on the same diameter are opposite.
Optionally, the peep-proof body has a spherical structure, and in one of the first sub-pixel areas, at least one peep-proof component is provided, and the peep-proof components are uniformly distributed in the first sub-pixel area.
Optionally, the peep-proof body is a cylindrical structure, and in one of the first sub-pixel areas, the peep-proof component is provided with one and is parallel to the extending direction of the data line of the display panel.
Optionally, the mirror coating is provided with two places, and two places the mirror coating is adjacent to set up, and follows electrified portion mutual symmetry sets up.
Optionally, the peep-proof layer comprises a light shielding layer, the light shielding layer is provided with a plurality of positions, and the light shielding layers are respectively arranged corresponding to the plurality of peep-proof assemblies, wherein in the direction from the first substrate to the second substrate, the projection of the light shielding layer covers the peep-proof assemblies.
Optionally, an insulating layer is further arranged on the hollow shell, the insulating layer covers the driving electrode, and a lubricating liquid is arranged between the insulating layer and the peep-proof body, wherein the lubricating liquid is insulating lubricating liquid, and the density of the lubricating liquid is greater than that of the peep-proof body.
The application also discloses a display device which comprises a driving circuit and the display panel according to any one of the above, wherein the driving circuit drives the display panel.
According to the display panel, whether the driving electrode in the hollow shell is electrified or not is controlled, after the driving electrode is electrified, an electric field generated by the driving electrode attracts the electrified part to enable the peep-proof body to rotate so as to control the position of the mirror surface coating on the peep-proof body, and therefore the direction of light rays emitted into the display panel from the outside to be reflected by the mirror surface coating is controlled; when the display panel is normally displayed, the mirror coating is controlled to rotate so that external light irradiates the peep-proof body, so that the light cannot be reflected, surrounding people of a user can watch the display content of the display panel, and the user can switch the display mode of the display panel to peep-proof display or normal display according to actual use requirements.
Detailed Description
It is to be understood that the terminology used herein, the specific structural and functional details disclosed are merely representative for the purpose of describing particular embodiments, but that the application may be embodied in many alternate forms and should not be construed as limited to only the embodiments set forth herein.
In the description of the present application, the terms "first", "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, unless otherwise indicated, features defining "a first", "a second", and "a plurality" may include one or more of such features explicitly or implicitly, and "a plurality" means two or more. The terms "comprises," "comprising," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof may be present or added.
In addition, terms of the azimuth or positional relationship indicated by "center", "lateral", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", etc., are described based on the azimuth or relative positional relationship shown in the drawings, are merely for convenience of description of the present application, and do not indicate that the apparatus or element referred to must have a specific azimuth, be constructed and operated in a specific azimuth, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present application.
Furthermore, unless explicitly specified and limited otherwise, the terms "mounted," "connected," "coupled," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be either permanently connected, removably connected, or integrally connected, mechanically connected, electrically connected, directly connected, indirectly connected via an intervening medium, or in communication between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art according to the specific circumstances.
The present application will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings and the optional embodiments, and it should be noted that, without conflict, new embodiments may be formed by any combination of the embodiments or technical features described below.
As shown in fig. 1, as a first embodiment of the present application, a display panel 100 is disclosed, the display panel 100 includes a first substrate 110 and a second substrate 120 that are disposed opposite to each other, and a peep preventing layer 130 disposed between the first substrate 110 and the second substrate 120, the display panel 100 further includes a plurality of peep preventing assemblies 200, the plurality of peep preventing assemblies 200 are disposed in the peep preventing layer 130, each peep preventing assembly 200 includes a hollow housing 210 and a peep preventing body 220 disposed in the hollow housing 210, a plurality of driving electrodes 211 are disposed on the hollow housing 210, a mirror coating 221 and a charging portion 222 are disposed on the peep preventing body 220, the charging portion 222 is disposed at intervals with the mirror coating 221, and the plurality of driving electrodes 211 are electrically driven to rotate the peep preventing body 220 so as to control the mirror coating 221 to rotate, thereby realizing the peep preventing display and the normal display of the display panel 100, wherein the peep preventing body 220 is made of a black light absorbing material.
In the display panel 100 of this embodiment, by controlling whether the driving electrode 211 in the hollow housing 210 is electrified or not, after the driving electrode 211 is electrified, an electric field generated by the driving electrode 211 attracts the charging portion 222 to rotate the peep-proof body 220, so as to control the position of the mirror coating 221 on the peep-proof body 220, thereby controlling the direction in which the light emitted into the display panel 100 from the outside is reflected by the mirror coating 221, when the display panel 100 is peep-proof, the mirror coating 221 can reflect the light to the side view angle of the user, the surrounding personnel of the user cannot completely view the display content of the display panel 100, when the display panel 100 is normal display, the mirror coating 221 is controlled to rotate so that the external light irradiates the peep-proof body 220, so that the light cannot be reflected, the surrounding personnel of the user can view the display content of the display panel 100, and the user can switch the display mode of the display panel 100 to the peep-proof display or normal display according to the actual use requirement, and what needs to be explained is that the side view angle of the user generally refers to the viewing angle of the surrounding personnel of the user, such as the left side view of the user, the direction of the user, the right side view angle of the mirror coating can not completely see the display content of the display panel 100, and the specific direction of the light is reflected by the mirror coating 220.
As shown in fig. 2 and fig. 3, as a second embodiment of the present application, a display panel 100 is disclosed, wherein the peep-preventing layer 130 includes a driving circuit layer 131, a pixel defining layer 132 and a light emitting component 133, the driving circuit layer 131 is disposed on the first substrate 110, the pixel defining layer 132 and the light emitting component 133 are disposed on the driving circuit layer 131, the pixel defining layer 132 divides into a plurality of sub-pixel areas 140, the sub-pixel areas 140 include a first sub-pixel area 141 and a second sub-pixel area 142, the first sub-pixel area 141 and the second sub-pixel area 142 are disposed at intervals, the peep-preventing component 200 is disposed in the first sub-pixel area 141, the light emitting component 133 is disposed in the second sub-pixel area 142, the light emitting component 133 includes an anode layer 134, a light emitting layer 135 and a cathode layer 136 disposed on the driving circuit layer 131, the anode layer 135 is disposed on the anode layer 135, the second sub-pixel layer 136 is disposed on the second sub-pixel area 132 and the second sub-pixel area 151 is disposed on the second sub-pixel area 151, the second sub-pixel area 150 is disposed on the second sub-pixel area 151, and the second sub-pixel area 150 is disposed on the second sub-pixel area 151.
The peep-proof assembly 200 is disposed in the first sub-pixel area 141, the light emitting assembly 133 is disposed in the second sub-pixel area 142, and the area of the first sub-pixel area 141 is smaller than that of the second sub-pixel area 142, the aperture ratio of the display panel 100 is related to the area of the first sub-pixel area 141, and the smaller the area of the first sub-pixel area 141 is, the larger the aperture ratio of the display panel 100 is, otherwise, in the present embodiment, the smaller the area of the first sub-pixel area 141 is, so as to increase the aperture ratio of the display panel 100;
The first sub-pixel area 141 is provided with a first packaging layer 150, the first packaging layer 150 is provided with a groove for installing the peep-proof assembly 200, the peep-proof assembly 200 is arranged in the groove to be installed in the first sub-pixel area 141, so that the upper side and the lower side of the display panel 100 are better manufactured by the alignment film layer, and the production of the display panel 100 is facilitated, wherein the first packaging layer 150 is provided with a via hole, a driving electrode 211 on a hollow shell 210 of the peep-proof assembly 200 is connected with the driving circuit layer 131 through the via hole, so that the driving electrode 211 on the hollow shell 210 of the peep-proof assembly 200 can be controlled to be powered on or off through the driving circuit layer 131, and the driving circuit layer 131 can be arranged to be connected with a control IC (integrated circuit) special for controlling the driving electrode 211;
Further, in this embodiment, the cross section of the hollow housing 210 is circular, a plurality of the driving electrodes 211 are arranged in a circular array in the hollow housing 210, and the plurality of the driving electrodes 211 are symmetrically arranged along the central axis of the hollow housing 210, as shown in fig. 3, where the charging portion 222 of the peep-proof body 220 is positive, the number of the driving electrodes 211 is two-to-two, when the peep-proof body 220 needs to be driven to rotate to adjust the position of the mirror coating 221, the two opposite driving electrodes 211 are simultaneously energized, one driving electrode 211 is positively charged, one driving electrode 211 is negatively charged, the positive driving electrode 211 and the negative driving electrode 211 form an electric field, and finally the positively charged charging portion 222 of the peep-proof body 220 is stopped at the negative driving electrode 211, so as to drive the peep-proof body 220 to rotate, as shown in fig. 4, so as to adjust the position of the mirror coating 221, when the peep-proof body 220 needs to be driven to rotate to adjust the position of the mirror coating 221, when the two opposite driving electrodes 211 need to be positively charged are electrically charged, the two driving electrodes 211 are positively charged, and the positive driving electrode 211 and the negative driving electrode 211 need to be normally rotated are electrically charged, and the two driving electrodes 222 need to be normally electrically charged are electrically charged when the two driving electrodes are electrically charged electrodes 211 are electrically connected to be electrically charged, and the peep-conductive electrode 211 are electrically conductive to be driven to rotate.
In this embodiment, the peep-proof body 220 may have two structures, i.e. a spherical structure and a cylindrical structure, which are described below:
As shown in fig. 6, the peep preventing body 220 has a spherical structure, the hollow housing 210 has a corresponding spherical structure, in one of the first sub-pixel areas 141, at least one peep preventing assembly 200 is disposed in at least one of the first sub-pixel areas 141, the peep preventing assembly 200 can realize peep prevention in any direction, for example, taking the light emitting surface of the display panel 100 as the front surface, peep prevention in four directions including left side, right side, upper side and lower side can be realized, even peep prevention in the upper left side, lower left side, upper right side and lower right side can be realized, only a corresponding driving electrode 211 is disposed at a corresponding position of the hollow housing 210 to drive the peep preventing body 220 to rotate to a specific position, the peep preventing angle range is wide, and the peep preventing assembly 200 can be disposed in plurality, for example, the peep preventing assemblies 200 can be arranged along the extending direction of the data line of the display panel 100, so that a certain quantity of reflected light can be reflected in each first sub-pixel area 141 of the display panel 100, thereby realizing a better light preventing effect;
As shown in fig. 7, the peep preventing body 220 is in a cylindrical structure, the hollow housing 210 is also in a corresponding cylindrical structure, in one of the first sub-pixel areas 141, the peep preventing assembly 200 is provided with one of the first sub-pixel areas 141 and is parallel to the extending direction of the data line of the display panel 100, in this embodiment, the extending direction of the data line parallel to the display panel 100 is in the Y-axis direction as shown in fig. 7, taking the light emitting surface of the display panel 100 as the front surface, the peep preventing in both the left and right directions can be realized, and only the corresponding driving electrode 211 is required to be provided at the corresponding position of the hollow housing 210 to drive the peep preventing body 220 to rotate to a specific position, so that the peep preventing body 220 is in a cylindrical structure, and a certain amount of light can be reflected in one of the first sub-pixel areas 141, thereby realizing a better peep preventing effect.
Further, in this embodiment, the mirror coating 221 may be provided with a plurality of positions, or only one position of the mirror coating 221, when the mirror coating 221 is provided with only one position, if the two sides of the mirror coating 221 are to be peeped at the same time, the driving electrode 211 is required to control the peep-proof body 220 to rotate at a high frequency, so that the mirror coating 221 of the peep-proof body 220 is switched back and forth at the positions of the two sides, for example, the mirror coating 221 is controlled to face to the left side at 1/60 seconds, as shown in fig. 3 (a), and the mirror coating 221 is controlled to face to the right side at 2/60 seconds, as shown in fig. 3 (b), so that the two sides of the mirror coating are circulated, thereby achieving the two sides of peep-proof at the same time; the two mirror coatings 221 may be disposed adjacent to each other and symmetrically disposed along the charging portion 222, when the display panel 100 needs to be peeped, the driving electrode 211 controls the peeping body 220 to rotate the charging portion 222 to a side close to the first substrate 110, so that the two mirror coatings 221 can reflect the light incident into the display panel 100 from the outside to the left and right sides respectively, and the two mirror coatings 221 can achieve the simultaneous peeping at the left and right sides, compared with the case of only disposing one mirror coating 221, the simultaneous peeping can be achieved without controlling the peeping body 220 to rotate at a high frequency, and the energy consumption required during peeping is low, or the peeping body 220 can be of a spherical structure at the same time in three-side direction or four-side direction, and the mirror coatings 221 corresponding to the number of the peeping directions are disposed, thereby achieving the simultaneous peeping at the three-side, four-side or even multi-side directions, the designer can select the number of the mirror coatings 221 on the peeping body 220 according to the actual requirement, there is no limitation in this regard.
Furthermore, color resists or fluorescent powder with different colors can be further arranged on the mirror coating 221, so that emergent light rays with different colors can be realized, the reflected light rays can form a color mixing effect, compared with the mirror coating 221 which reflects white light alone, the fluorescent powder has the advantages that the light color is richer, the peep-proof effect is better, and the fluorescent powder can absorb ultraviolet or blue light to emit light autonomously, so that the mixed light of the light is formed.
As shown in fig. 5, the peep-proof layer 130 includes a light-proof layer 137, the light-proof layer 137 is provided with a plurality of positions, the light-proof layer 137 is respectively disposed corresponding to the plurality of peep-proof assemblies 200, wherein, in a direction along the first substrate 110 to the second substrate 120, a projection of the light-proof layer 137 covers the peep-proof assemblies 200, the light-proof layer 137 is disposed directly above the peep-proof assemblies 200, when the peep-proof body 220 rotates, if the mirror coating 221 rotates to a side facing the second substrate 120, light reflected by the mirror coating 221 is blocked by the light-proof layer 137, and disordered light is blocked from being emitted from a front view angle of the display panel 100, in general, the display panel 100 of the embodiment prevents light from being reflected from the mirror coating 221 to the front view angle by disposing the light-proof layer 137 directly above the peep-proof assemblies 200, which affects a user's viewing experience, or of course, a light-proof layer 137 is coated on a side of the hollow housing 210 near the second substrate 120, which can also prevent the front view angle from being reduced.
Further, as shown in fig. 5, the peep-proof layer 130 is further provided with a filter layer 138, the filter layer 138 is disposed on the second packaging layer 151 and corresponds to the light emitting component 133, and the filter layer 138 is configured to store light of the light emitting component 133 and reduce reflection of external ambient light, where the filter layer 138 is a color blocking layer.
As shown in fig. 3, the hollow housing 210 is further provided with an insulating layer 212, the insulating layer 212 covers the driving electrode 211, so as to prevent the driving electrode 211 from being in direct contact with the charging portion 222 of the peep-proof body 220, which results in electric neutralization and incapability of rotating, that is, the peep-proof body 220 and the driving electrode 211 are arranged at intervals, wherein the insulating layer 212 is a transparent insulating layer 212, so that light rays emitted into the display panel 100 from the outside can penetrate through the insulating layer 212 and enter the mirror coating 221 of the peep-proof body 220 to form reflection, meanwhile, in order to make the rotation effect of the peep-proof body 220 better, a lubricating liquid 230 is arranged between the insulating layer 212 and the peep-proof body 220, the density of the lubricating liquid 230 is greater than that of the peep-proof body 220, and the peep-proof body 220 is subjected to the buoyancy of the lubricating liquid 230 to overcome the gravity of the peep-proof body, so that the peep-proof body 220 can be in the hollow housing 210, thereby avoiding direct contact with the insulating layer 212 of the outside to penetrate into the display panel 100, and the light rays emitted into the mirror coating 221 of the peep-proof body 220 to form reflection, meanwhile, in order to make the rotation effect of the peep-proof body 220 be better, and the peep-proof body 220 can be rotated in the hollow structure, thereby reducing the solid structure, and the peep-proof body 220 can be rotated more easily.
When the peep-proof body 220 and the hollow shell 210 are manufactured, the peep-proof body 220 is manufactured by using micron-level materials, the two sides of the peep-proof body 220 are respectively plated with the mirror coating 221 and the charged part 222, the charged part 222 is a charged layer, then the surface modification is carried out on one side of the peep-proof body 220 to prepare the charged layer, after the preparation is finished, the charged layer is fixed under the action of an externally applied electric field, then the mirror coating 221 is plated, so that the manufacture of the peep-proof body 220 is finished, wherein the mirror coating 221 and the charged part 222 can be opposite sides or not opposite sides and can be adjacent sides, when the hollow shell 210 is manufactured, the hollow shell 210 can be divided into two parts which are symmetrical to each other like an LCD (liquid crystal display) box, the circuits of the driving electrode 211 are respectively arranged on the two sides, then the peep-proof body 220 is embedded into the hollow shell 210, after the charging the lubricating liquid 230, the two sides are combined to form the hollow shell 210 in a box forming mode, when the peep-proof assembly 200 is installed, the peep-proof assembly 150 can be firstly etched on the first packaging layer 150, the second packaging layer can be etched on the corresponding to the second packaging layer 151, and the display panel can be adhered to the periphery of the display panel by using the vacuum display panel, and the display panel can be adhered to the display panel in a vacuum mode, and the display panel can be adhered to the periphery by using the vacuum display panel.
As shown in fig. 8, which is a modification of the first embodiment of the present application, a display panel 100 is disclosed, wherein the peep-preventing layer 130 includes a driving circuit layer 131, a pixel defining layer 132 and a light emitting component 133, the driving circuit layer 131 is disposed on the first substrate 110, the pixel defining layer 132 and the light emitting component 133 are disposed on the driving circuit layer 131, the pixel defining layer 132 is divided into a plurality of sub-pixel areas 140, the light emitting component 133 is disposed in the sub-pixel areas 140, the peep-preventing component 200 is disposed on the pixel defining layer 132, the light emitting component 133 includes an anode layer 134, a light emitting layer 135 and a cathode layer 136 sequentially disposed on the driving circuit layer 131, the light emitting layer 135 is disposed on the anode layer 134, the cathode layer 136 is disposed on the light emitting layer 135, the peep-preventing layer 130 further includes a third encapsulation layer 152 disposed on the pixel defining layer 132, and the second encapsulation layer 152 is disposed on the second substrate 132 and the second encapsulation layer 152;
In this embodiment, the peep-proof assembly 200 is disposed on the pixel defining layer 132, and compared with the solution of the previous embodiment, the aperture ratio of the display panel 100 is improved, wherein the pixel defining layer 132 is provided with a via hole, the driving electrode 211 on the hollow housing 210 of the peep-proof assembly 200 is connected with the driving circuit layer 131 through the via hole, so that the driving electrode 211 on the hollow housing 210 of the peep-proof assembly 200 can be controlled to be powered on or off through the driving circuit 300 city, thereby driving the peep-proof body 220 to rotate, the driving circuit layer 131 can be disposed on a control IC dedicated for controlling the driving electrode 211, and, in order to enable the mirror coating 221 on the peep-proof body 220 to reflect light, the third packaging layer 152, the hollow housing 210 and the driving electrode 211 are all transparent, and the driving electrode 211 can be transparent ITO;
In this embodiment, the peep-proof body 220 may have two structures, i.e. a spherical structure and a cylindrical structure, which are described below:
The peep-proof body 220 has a spherical structure, the hollow shell 210 has a corresponding spherical structure, at least one peep-proof component 200 is arranged in one sub-pixel area 140, the peep-proof components 200 are uniformly distributed in the sub-pixel area 140, the peep-proof body 220 has a cylindrical structure, the hollow shell 210 has a corresponding cylindrical structure, and one peep-proof component 200 is arranged in one sub-pixel area 140 and is parallel to the extending direction of the data line of the display panel 100.
As shown in fig. 9, as a fourth embodiment of the present application, a display device 400 is disclosed, wherein the display device 400 includes a driving circuit 300 and the display panel 100 according to the above embodiment, the driving circuit 300 drives the display panel 100, and the display device 400 of the present application can drive the privacy sphere disposed in the hollow housing 210 to rotate by controlling the on-off of the driving electrode 211, thereby adjusting the position of the mirror coating 221 to realize the switching of the display panel 100 between the privacy display and the normal display.
It should be noted that, the inventive concept of the present application can form a very large number of embodiments, but the application documents are limited in space and cannot be listed one by one, so that on the premise of no conflict, the above-described embodiments or technical features can be arbitrarily combined to form new embodiments, and after the embodiments or technical features are combined, the original technical effects will be enhanced.
The above description of the application in connection with specific alternative embodiments is further detailed and it is not intended that the application be limited to the specific embodiments disclosed. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that several simple deductions or substitutions may be made without departing from the spirit of the application, and these should be considered to be within the scope of the application.