CN100350323C - Flexible ultra-thin electrophoresis display screen and method for making same - Google Patents

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CN100350323C
CN100350323C CNB2003101234465A CN200310123446A CN100350323C CN 100350323 C CN100350323 C CN 100350323C CN B2003101234465 A CNB2003101234465 A CN B2003101234465A CN 200310123446 A CN200310123446 A CN 200310123446A CN 100350323 C CN100350323 C CN 100350323C
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The present invention provides a flexible thin electrophoretic displaying screen which comprises an upper layer displaying layer and a lower layer controlling circuit, wherein the upper layer displaying layer comprises a transparent conductive film basal plate with an obstructing layer, a material displaying layer and a bonding layer. The bonding layer covers the whole material displaying layer, and the upper layer displaying layer and the lower layer controlling circuit are connected through the bonding layer in the upper layer displaying layer. The flexible thin electrophoretic displaying screen has the advantage of simple structure, the thickness of the displaying screen is largely reduced, and bend performance can be remarkably enhanced. The present invention also provides a preparing method of the flexible thin electrophoretic displaying screen, and a production method and a production process have the advantage of simple process and are suitable for producing the ultrathin electrophoretic displaying screen with high flexibility.

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Flexible ultra-thin electrophoretic display panel and preparation method thereof
Technical field
The structure, the material that the present invention relates to the ultra-thin electrophoretic display panel of a kind of flexibility are formed and preparation method thereof.
Background technology
In display screen research and development field, it is in light weight because of it to mould basic display screen, but flexible and rolling batch process is that people endeavour hot of research and development always.These display screens comprise liquid crystal display, Organic Light Emitting Diode, little containing electrophoresis showed etc.
Display device needs display part and driving circuit.For the inflexibility display screen, display material and circuit behind thereof all are to be prepared on the glass substrate.Because glass has excellent waterproof (vapour) and gas-tight scattering and permeating performance, prepares the later stage at display screen usually, it is isolated just can to reach display material and external environment by edge seal, thereby makes display screen that be arranged stable serviceable life.And for flexible display screen, display material and circuit behind thereof need be prepared on the plastic base.Because but plastic base rolling ground produces and handles, display material is coated with incessantly or is printed on the plastic base normally continuously.
Than glass, steam and oxygen are easy to by the plastic layer scattering and permeating to influence display screen operate as normal and serviceable life to display material.The display layer edge that exposes also is the diffusion path of steam and oxygen.Present general solution is the diaphragm that all respectively adds one or more layers with circuit plastic-based material behind before display screen, have bonding agent; to keep the display screen operate as normal and to prolong its serviceable life; usually, the steam rate of propagation of diaphragm under the condition of 100  and 90%RH, should be lower than 0.2 the gram/square metre/day.
Shown in Figure 1 is the structural drawing of existing flexible thin electrophoretic display panel; as shown in the figure; comprise from top to bottom upper strata protective seam 25, top substrate layer 26, display material layer 27, bonding coat 28, lower floor's control circuit 29 and lower floor's protective seam 30; around display layer, edge sealant 31 is arranged, only drawn both sides among the figure.
Shown in Figure 2 is the process flow diagram of existing flexible thin electrophoretic display panel, and the first step is to be coated with continuously, incessantly to form display material layer, step 300 on the transparent conductive film substrate; Common bonding coat is coated on the display material layer continuously, formed the upper strata display layer, step 310; The upper strata display layer is cut into required size, step 320; Display layer edge, upper strata cleaning after the cutting, step 330; The employing plastic sheeting is a substrate, makes lower floor's control circuit, step 340; Upper strata display layer and lower floor's control circuit are incorporated into one, form display screen, step 350; With the upper strata protective seam, lower floor's protective seam and display screen are incorporated into one, form the display screen with protective seam, step 360; The edge sealing of final display screen, step 370.
PCT patent WO01/67170A1 has announced a kind of very rolling production method of little glass of complicated electrophoretic display panel, comprises 10 steps altogether.Different with Fig. 2 flow process is before forming the upper strata display layer, at top substrate layer elder generation coating one protective layer material, to be compression molded into cup then, curing; After forming display layer, utilize the multistep flow process again, on display layer, form heat cured lower floor protective seam; Utilizing bonding coat that the upper strata is shown at last again combines with lower circuit.
Ei ji Nakamura etc. are at SID ' 98 Digest, in 1014 (1998) " Development ofelectrophoretic display using microencapsulated suspension ", reported with the scraper type method to be coated with little containing electrophoretic display materials continuously on the ITO plastic sheeting.
In above-mentioned existing method, its material display layer 27 and bonding coat 28 all are not have the compartment of terrain coating continuously.Utilize these production methods, need be cut in the process of required size at the upper strata display layer, the chemical substance that comprises therebetween as solvent, powder particle etc., can intersperse among display layer edge, upper strata.Before carrying out next step flow process, these residual chemicals need be removed from display layer edge, upper strata, otherwise will cause instrument and material contamination.
This preparation method in the production procedure later stage, also will be sealed with encapsulant in display layer edge, upper strata, because the flexibility of plastic-based material, finishing of this operation has very big difficulty.
In addition, owing to need to increase in addition protective seam at the display layer upper and lower surface, the thickness of display screen just increases greatly, and protective seam that adds and edge seal material significantly reduce the flexible performance of display screen.
In sum, present existing flexible electrophoresis showed manufacturing process and flow process complexity, the raising and the cost that directly influence productive rate, performance reduce.
Summary of the invention
The technical problem to be solved in the present invention provides the ultra-thin electrophoretic display panel of a kind of flexibility,
In order to solve the problems of the technologies described above, the flexible thin electrophoretic display panel that the invention provides, it comprises upper strata display layer and lower floor's control circuit, wherein said upper strata display layer includes transparent conductive film substrate, display material layer and the bonding coat of barrier layer, described bonding coat covers the monoblock display material layer, and described upper strata display layer links to each other by the bonding coat in the display layer of described upper strata with the lower floor control circuit.
The described transparent conductive film substrate that barrier layer is arranged, its resistance conductive layer scope is between 10-1000 Ω/, preferred 30-300 Ω/, its steam rate of propagation is lower than 0.2 gram/square metre/day at 100  and 90%RH, its thickness is between the 15-500 micron, preferred 50-250 micron, it is preferably and is terephthalic acid (TPA) polyglycol ester that has indium tin oxide transparency conducting layer and transparent barrier layer or naphthalenedicarboxylic acid polyglycol ester film.Transparent barrier layer is made up of inorganic, metal oxide or organic obstruct compound.
The thickness of described display material layer is the 1-500 micron, preferred 2-100 micron, more preferably 5-50 micron.
Described lower floor control circuit can be by direct drive-type (Direct-drive), passive matrix (PassiveMatrix Addressing) and active-matrix method (Active Matrix Addressing) drive, it comprises lower floor's control circuit substrate, at least one dielectric layer and conductive layer, described lower floor control circuit substrate is sheet metal or the plastic sheeting that has barrier layer, its steam rate of propagation is lower than 0.2 gram/square metre/day at 100  and 90%RH, preferred stainless steel thin slice, the described plastic sheeting that has barrier layer, its barrier layer comprises the coat of metal, inorganic, ceramic layer or organic barrier layer.
Described nano composite material bonding coat comprises the polymer binder of 75-95% volume ratio and the nano-inorganic substance of 1-20% volume ratio, described macromolecular material comprises polyethylene vinyl acetate ester (EVA), polyester (polyester), epoxy resin (epoxy), polyurethane (polyurethane), acrylate (acrylics) etc., or the potpourri of two or more above above-mentioned materials; Described nano inorganic filling agent comprises nanoclay (nanoclay), silicon dioxide (silica), nanofiber, nano-silicon oxide (Silsesquioxane) etc., and its size is usually between the 1-100 nanometer; Also may comprise other additives in the component of described nano composite material bonding coat, resistivity as macromolecular material is too high, the destaticizer that can add the 0-5% volume ratio is close to regulate its resistivity and display layer, and described destaticizer is that anionic/cationic is removed static compound or conducting polymer etc.; For improving coating effect and coating quality, can add the surfactant of 0-2% volume ratio, as defoamer such as silicone (silicone), wetting agent such as sorbierite dodecyl surfactant etc.
The present invention also provides a kind of display screen of flexible thin electrophoresis double-sided display, it also comprises identical lower floor's control circuit and upper strata display layer, the shared lower floor's control circuit substrate of described two lower floor's control circuits, described two upper strata display layers are bonding with the lower floor control circuit respectively, form the display screen of a two-sided demonstration.
As from the foregoing, the flexible thin electrophoretic display panel that the invention provides is simple in structure, and the thickness of display screen significantly reduces, and flexible performance significantly improves.
The another technical matters that the present invention will solve provides the preparation method of the ultra-thin electrophoretic display panel of a kind of flexibility, can simplify the production routine of existing flexible electrophoretic display panel.
In order to solve the problems of the technologies described above, the preparation method of the ultra-thin electrophoretic display panel of a kind of flexibility provided by the invention, it may further comprise the steps:
During upper strata display layer rolling was produced continuously, display material was having to become bulk to be coated with continuously on the transparent conductive film substrate of barrier layer to form display material layer 100;
One deck bonding coat is coated with continuously is covered on the display material layer, form upper strata display layer 110;
Cut into block upper strata display layer 120 along the transparent conductive film substrate centre joint place that barrier layer is arranged between the material display layer;
The dielectric layer of making circuit and conductive layer are to form lower floor's control circuit 130 on lower floor's control circuit substrate;
Upper strata display layer and lower floor's control circuit are incorporated into one 140 by bonding coat.
Sea of the present invention provides the preparation method of the display screen of the ultra-thin electrophoresis double-sided display of a kind of flexibility, and it may further comprise the steps:
During upper strata display layer rolling was produced continuously, display material was having to become bulk to be coated with continuously on the transparent conductive film substrate of barrier layer to form display material layer 200;
One deck bonding coat is coated with continuously is covered on the display material layer, form upper strata display layer 210;
Cut into block upper strata display layer 220 along the transparent conductive film substrate centre joint place that barrier layer is arranged between the material display layer
Make the dielectric layer of circuit and conductive layer in the both sides of lower floor's control circuit substrate to form two lower floor's control circuits 230 of shared lower floor's control circuit substrate;
Two upper strata display layers are incorporated into one with two lower floor's control circuits by bonding coat respectively, form the display screen 240 of a two-sided demonstration.
Above-mentioned steps 100 or step 200 are utilized piece-shape type coating or pre-metering type coating process; The dielectric layer of circuit and conductive layer utilize polymer thick film technology or evaporating deposition technique to make in above-mentioned steps 130 or the step 230; Above-mentioned steps 140 or step 240 are utilized heating, pressurization or the combination of hot pressing film method; Bonding coat utilizes melt-extruded method, solution mixing method or in-situ synthesis preparation in the above-mentioned steps 110 or 210.
As from the foregoing, production method of the present invention and flow process, it is simple to have flow process, be suitable for producing ultra-thin, the electrophoretic display panel with high flexibility.
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Fig. 1 is the structural drawing of existing flexible thin electrophoretic display panel.
Fig. 2 is the existing flow sheet of moulding basic electrophoretic display panel.
Fig. 3 is the flow sheet that first embodiment of the invention is moulded basic electrophoretic display panel.
Fig. 4 is first embodiment of the invention upper strata display layer preparation method's a synoptic diagram.
Fig. 5 is the structural representation of first embodiment of the invention upper strata display layer.
Fig. 6 is the structural drawing that there is the transparent conductive film substrate of barrier layer on the first embodiment of the invention upper strata.
Fig. 7 A and Fig. 7 B are that microballoon distributes and the synoptic diagram of multilayer distribution at the individual layer of display layer in little containing electrophoretic display technology.
Fig. 8 is the following view of structure among Fig. 5.
Fig. 9 is the sectional view after Fig. 8 shows layer cutting at the middle and upper levels.
Figure 10 A, Figure 10 B are the vertical view and the sectional views of the digital type circuit of first embodiment of the invention lower floor control circuit.
Figure 11 is first embodiment of the invention upper strata display layer and lower floor's control circuit are made terminal display screen through lamination a synoptic diagram.
Figure 12 is the two-sided lower floor control circuit of the shared laminar substrate of second embodiment of the invention.
Figure 13 is the flow sheet that third embodiment of the invention is moulded basic electrophoretic display panel.
Figure 14 is the structural representation of third embodiment of the invention lower floor control circuit active-matrix circuit.
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The preparation method who moulds basic electrophoretic display panel of the embodiment of the invention may further comprise the steps as shown in Figure 3:
During upper strata display layer rolling was produced continuously, display material became the coating of block sheet continuously to form display material layer, step 100 having on the transparent conductive film substrate of barrier layer;
One layer nano composite material bonding coat is coated with continuously is covered on the display material layer, form the upper strata display layer, step 110;
Cut into block upper strata display layer, step 120 along the transparent conductive film substrate centre joint place that barrier layer is arranged between the material display layer;
The plastic sheeting that adopts stainless steel film or have a barrier layer is a substrate, utilizes the dielectric layer and the conductive layer of polymer thick film fabrication techniques circuit, forms lower floor's control circuit, step 130;
Adopt the cylinder laminating that upper strata display layer and lower floor's control circuit are incorporated into one, form the display screen of the embodiment of the invention, step 140.
The concrete coating method of the upper strata display layer of present embodiment please refer to Fig. 4, in the rolling of upper strata display material layer is produced continuously, according to required display screen size, accurately control the consumption of display material by film coated instrument 4, having on the transparent conductive film substrate 1 of barrier layer, become the coating of piece ground continuously, form electrophoretic display materials layer 2.Display material layer is handled through ultraviolet or heating, drying at baking zone 5, is coated with one deck bonding coat 3 continuously on material display layer 2 by bonding coat coating instrument 6 then.The structural drawing of the upper strata display layer that obtains as shown in Figure 5.Also can adopt (premetered) coating process of other pre-metering type, as the slit die formula, ramp type (slide coating) or the like.
The transparent base of present embodiment upper strata display material adopts terephthalic acid (TPA) polyglycol ester (PET) or naphthalenedicarboxylic acid polyglycol ester (PEN) film that has indium tin oxide (ITO) transparency conducting layer and transparent barrier layer, as 159980 and 159512 products of the G901400 series of U.S. Shedahl company, its steam rate of propagation all is lower than 0.1 gram/square metre/day at 100  and 90%RH.As shown in Figure 6, the resistance range of ITO transparency conducting layer 14 can be between 10-1000 Ω/, and 30-300 Ω/ is better.But barrier layer 15 blocks moisture and air pass through, PET, and the thickness range of plastic basis materials such as PEN 16 can be between the 15-500 micron, and the 50-250 micron is better.Peripheral protective seam 17 can adopt dura mater coating (hard-coat), UV Absorption layer etc.
Electrophoresis showed is invented by Ota as far back as the seventies, utilizes coloured charged particle to move under electric field and develops the color.Its display screen all is to be made on the glass substrate.Jap.P. 2551783 discloses a kind of little containing electrophoretic display technology, is inclusive with the microballoon 12 of the sub-suspending liquid of colour band electrochondria like this, can be scattered in macromolecule 13 liquid or the dispersion liquid, utilizes coating accurate coating of instrument or printing.Electrophoretic display materials layer 2 thickness can pass through the microballoon size, and coating formula and coating print speed printing speed etc. is controlled.The coating process of commercial usefulness comprises dipping formula (dip coating), scraper type (knife or blade coating), slit die formula (slot-diecoating), drum-type (roll coating) etc., the coating wet-film thickness is usually between the 1-500 micron, concerning electrophoretic display panel was used, material display layer thickness was better at the 2-100 micron, and the 5-50 micron is better.Microballoon can be individual layer in the distribution of material display layer closely to be arranged, shown in Fig. 7 A; Or multilayer closely arranges, shown in Fig. 7 B.
Coating process of the present invention changes original continuous unremitting coating method into continuous block coating, forms the upper strata display layer.What adopt in the present embodiment is piece-shape type coating (patch coating) method.System's composition of piece-shape type coating instrument mainly contains: sensor, draw-out device, pipeline flow control valve and the programmable controller (PLC) of mould, precision, many companies such as 3M, Toshiba Battery, TorayEngineering etc. have announcement technology separately, and specific descriptions can be referring to US patent 5,360,629 (Milbourn etc., 1994), US patent 5,882,407 (Takeno etc., 1999), US patent5,882,408 (Fujita, 1999).
Shown in Figure 8 is the following view of Fig. 5, and as shown in the figure, when the upper strata display layer was cut apart in the present invention, along the cutting of the transparent conductive film substrate that barrier layer is arranged 1 centre joint 18 places between the material display layer, like this, the cut place did not have the pollution of residual display material.Thereby can save the step that pollute the cleaning cut edge.Sectional view after the display material cutting of upper strata then as shown in Figure 9.
Bonding coat in the display material of upper strata not only plays the sealing function to the upper strata display layer, and bonding coat and side seam sealant also play the effect that links to each other with lower floor's control circuit in one in the prior art of promptly holding concurrently.This bonding coat can be an one dielectric layer, and its resistivity or specific inductive capacity should be approaching compatible with lower floor's control circuit material with display layer, and it also should have the function of good damp proof trapping.
The nano composite material bonding coat that the embodiment of the invention adopts utilizes the solution mixing method preparation.This method at first prepares macromolecule material solution, sneaks into nano-inorganic substance again.When preparation bonding coat potpourri, if the macromolecule parent material is the solid piece piece, they need be dissolved in earlier in the corresponding solvent, as the Epon 2003 of Resolution Performance Products company, need be dissolved in earlier in the acetone, make the solution of 30-50%.If the macromolecule parent material is solution or the aqueous dispersion liquid that dissolves in advance, just can save this step of dissolving.In the epoxy resin dispersion liquid (the EPI-REZ 3519-W-50 of ResolutionPerformance Products company) of 50% (weight ratio), add the silicon dioxide Acti-Min (ITC company) of 10% (weight ratio) silanization, utilize the common stirring machine of commercial usefulness to stir.
The bonding coat that solution mixing method is prepared from can use multiple coating process, as scraper type (knife orblade coating), slit die formula (slot-die coating), drum-type (roll coating) etc.Electrophoresis showed is used, and between the 1-100 micron, the 2-50 micron is better usually for bonding coat coating wet-film thickness, and the 5-25 micron is better, and present embodiment bonding coat coating wet-film thickness is 10 microns.
Lower floor's control circuit of present embodiment adopts direct drive-type (Direct-drive), and directly the drive-type circuit divides digital type and dot matrix type, they all the usable polymers thick film technology make.For example, multilayer dielectric and conductive layer can be coated with the mesh print process.The material of dielectric and conductive layer has the supply of a lot of producers, and the polymer thick film PTF series ink as U.S. Acheson and DuPont company comprises ultra-violet curing and heat curing dielectric material, carbon black conductive ink and silver-colored conductive ink etc.In process of production; adopt sheet metal such as stainless steel thin slice; or adopt and to have barrier layer and (comprise the coat of metal; inorganic, ceramic layer or organic barrier layer) plastic sheeting be lower floor's control circuit substrate; after circuit of making and the combination of upper strata display layer, just need not extra diaphragm and extra laminating technology.The PC-2 series thin film of available lower floor control circuit baseplate material such as Toray company (steam rate of propagation 0.14 gram/square metre/day), the film Aclar 22C of Honeywell company (steam rate of propagation 0.10 gram/square metre/day), Aclam TC 100 (steam rate of propagation 0.062 gram/square metre/day), Aclam TC200 (steam rate of propagation 0.023 gram/square metre/day), stainless steel thin slice SUS type 304 series of Nippon Steel company (steam rate of propagation be lower than 0.001 gram/square metre/day).
Figure 10 A, Figure 10 B are the vertical view and the sectional views of the digital type circuit of lower floor's control circuit, as shown in the figure, this number type circuit is by the substrate 7 of lower floor's control circuit, be formed with connection electrode 8 and dielectric layer 9 on the substrate, connection electrode 8 is passed dielectric layer 9 and is electrically connected with the line segment electrode 10 of lower floor control circuit.
Upper strata display material and lower floor's control circuit are incorporated into one, can adopt heating, pressurization or three kinds of methods of hot pressing.At present, the vacuum hotpressing of commercial usefulness (vacuum lamination), cylinder lamination (rolllamination) etc. all can apply to this, and present embodiment adopts the cylinder laminating.Referring to Figure 11, in the lamination process, bonding coat 3 can produce certain deformation, and is continuous with the material (8,9,10) of lower floor's control circuit, produces void-free sealing.Heat at lamination, in the pressure process, bonding coat 3 also can with the material (8 of lower floor's control circuit, 9,10) interfacial chemical reaction taking place, produces sealing more closely, for example, (Si-OH) group, they will form silicon oxygen bond (bonding Si-O-Si-) at the interface all to have silicon hydroxide as the material of bonding coat 3 and lower floor's control circuit.
What form thus moulds basic electrophoretic display panel as shown in figure 11, and this display screen structure is simple, need not the sealing of extra protection barrier layer and edge, thereby it is low to make display screen reach thickness, the performance of in light weight and highly flexible.
Second embodiment
It is basic identical that present embodiment is moulded the preparation method and first embodiment of basic electrophoretic display panel, just different on the structure of adhesive material preparation method and lower floor's control circuit.
The bonding coat nano composite material that present embodiment adopts is utilized in-situ synthesis (in-situpolymerization) preparation, bonding coat among the embodiment one is directly to utilize synthetic in advance macromolecule, in-situ synthesis is then from the macromolecular material monomer, in the building-up process of macromolecular material, add nano-inorganic substance.Zhi Bei bonding coat like this, nano-inorganic substance is more evenly distributed in polymer base material, thereby can make bonding coat improve more to the barrier property of water and oxygen.Multiple Polymer Synthesizing method all can apply to this, as progressively addition polymerization, free radical polymerization and ionic polymerization etc.The macromolecule that can be made into bonding agent comprises polyester, polyurethane, acrylate etc.
Present embodiment proposes the preparation method that processing procedure is a polyurethane nano composite material: stirrer is being housed, thermometer, in the reaction bulb of reflux condenser, add 100 gram polyether glycol (Shanghai Gaoqiao petrochemical industry three factories, 30min dewaters under 120 ℃ of vacuum, be cooled to normal temperature, adding 21 restrains toluene diisocyanate monomers (Shanghai chemical reagent factory) and is dissolved in dihydromethyl propionic acid (Chinese Suny Chem International) 6 grams of N-methyl-2-arsenic pyrrolidone, add 15 gram (~5% volume ratio) nanoclays (the PK series of Pai KongCeramic Materials company), in 65 ℃ of reactions 3 hours; Be cooled to 40 ℃, add the aqueous solution (BASF AG) that contains 5 gram triethylamines, reacted 40 minutes.Be cooled to room temperature, add 2 gram ethylenediamine (Guangzhou Chemical Reagent Factory) chain extensions, can obtain the dispersion liquid of polyurethane nano composite material.In this processing procedure, isocyanate-monomer, with the mol ratio of polyvalent alcohol and dihydromethyl propionic acid: NCO/OH>1, the mol ratio of polyvalent alcohol and dihydromethyl propionic acid is 1: 1, the mol ratio of triethylamine and dihydromethyl propionic acid was near 1: 1, and the ethylenediamine molal quantity is approaching: (NCO/OH-1).
About the preparation and the crosslinked improvement of polyurethane, more implementation methods can be referring to list of references US Patent4,092,286 (Noll et al., 1978), US Patent 4,820,762 (Tsaur et al., 1989), D.Dietrich, Progress Org.Coatings, 9,281 (1981) etc.
Be generally the raising coating quality, in the He Cheng high molecular nanometer compound, also need add defoamer in position, silicone (BYK-075 of BYK company), scope is 0.1% (volume ratio); Wetting agent such as sorbierite dodecyl surfactant (the Triton X-100 of Aldrich company), scope is 0.3% (volume ratio).The coating process that the synthetic nano combined bonding coat of original position is suitable for is similar to embodiment one with THICKNESS CONTROL.
Present embodiment is when making lower floor's control circuit, be all to have produced control circuit on the two sides of substrate, as shown in figure 12, the control circuit on substrate two sides can be identical or different design, but by above-mentioned laminating method, the two sides of control circuit all can link to each other with a upper strata display material respectively.Like this, just made the display screen that a kind of two sides shows.
The 3rd embodiment
The preparation method that present embodiment is moulded basic electrophoretic display panel may further comprise the steps as shown in figure 13:
During upper strata display layer rolling was produced continuously, display material was coated with into block display material layer, step 200 at the transparent conductive film substrate inclined board that barrier layer is arranged;
One layer nano composite material bonding coat is coated with continuously is covered on the display material layer, form the upper strata display layer, step 210;
Cut into block upper strata display layer, step 220 along the transparent conductive film substrate centre joint place that barrier layer is arranged between the material display layer;
The plastic sheeting that adopts stainless steel film or have a barrier layer is a substrate, utilizes the dielectric layer and the conductive layer of vacuum deposition method fabrication techniques circuit, forms lower floor's control circuit, step 230;
Adopt vacuum hot-pressing that upper strata display layer and lower floor's control circuit are incorporated into one, form the display screen of the embodiment of the invention, step 240.
On the big flow process of the said method and first embodiment is consistent, but following aspect difference is arranged:
The plastic basis material of present embodiment upper layer of material is to adopt polyester PET or the PEN film with low resistance ITO transparency conducting layer, as the G430300 of Sheldahl company and the AD-30 series of Alpha Display company, its resistance conductive layer is respectively 40 Ω/ and 30 Ω/.When the upper strata display material forms, can adopt the multiple coating process of in first embodiment, introducing.The swash plate coating process of pre-metering type has been adopted in this enforcement, reaches uniform coating thickness by control flow rate, coating speed.
The nano composite material bonding coat that the embodiment of the invention adopts utilizes melt-extruded method (meltextrusion) preparation.This method is with polymer binder tygon-vinyl acetate (Elvax 3176 of DuPont company, 3200-2) heat fused, its temperature of fusion should be lower than 230 ℃, vinyl acetate content (VA%) is 18%, add 10% nano-inorganic substance nanoclay (the Nanolin series of ZhejiangFenghongClay Chemicals company again, after stirring, extrude by the extruder slit and form coating.It is pointed out that the resistivity of bonding coat or specific inductive capacity and display layer are approaching, can make the serviceability optimization of display layer.Because the resistivity of polyethylene vinyl acetate ester and hot melt polyester is higher usually, after polymer binder and nano-inorganic substance mixing, add the Irgastat of 0.5%Ciba company kation or negative ion destaticizer again, will make final composite adhered layer resistivity reduce by 10 8~10 9Ω-cm, and and the display layer of this scope resistivity coupling.The thickness of the nano composite material bonding coat here should be controlled at the 5-25 micron, and the thickness of present embodiment is 15 microns.
Present embodiment is a kind of flexible sharpness screen, and its lower floor's control circuit adopts active-matrix method (Active Matrix Addressing) to drive.The active-matrix circuit is made of thin film transistor (TFT) (TFT) circuit.The plastic sheeting that the flexible thin-film transistor circuit adopts sheet metal such as stainless steel thin slice or is coated with metal level is lower floor's control circuit substrate, and the metal level of thin film transistor (TFT), dielectric layer and semiconductor layer utilize vacuum deposition method to make, as shown in figure 14.Lower floor's control circuit substrate 18 is sheet metal or the plastic sheeting that is coated with metal level, and thickness range can be between the 15-125 micron, and the 25-75 micron is better; Insulated barriers layer 19 plays insulation and intercepts the impurity effect, and thickness range is between the 0.1-1 micron; The thickness range of transistor gate metal level 20 is between the 0.05-0.5 micron; Dielectric layer 21 thickness ranges are between the 0.05-5 micron; Semiconductor layer 22, thickness range is between the 0.05-1 micron; The thickness range of high doping semiconductor layer 23 is between the 0.01-0.2 micron; Source transistor/leakage metal level 24 thickness ranges are between the 0.1-1 micron.
Present embodiment adopts vacuum hot-pressing that upper strata display layer and lower floor's control circuit are incorporated into one.
On the basis of foregoing, can do various conversion to the foregoing description, for example: the present invention is not limited to a certain specific transparent base, also can adopt the Flexible glass base material of producing by the Barix Coating of U.S. Vitex company technology, it by multilayer inorganic and organic barrier layer form, have more performance, its steam rate of propagation only is 10 -5~10 -6Gram/square metre/day; In or as number count out little display screen less demanding to display speed, lower floor's control circuit can adopt passive matrix method (Passive Matrix Addressing) to drive; The method that upper strata display layer and lower floor's control circuit is incorporated into one can also adopt other heating, pressurization or hot-press method.In addition, the technical characterictic of above-mentioned three embodiment different structures or technology can make up mutually, for example, can adopt the nano material bonding coat of the 3rd embodiment and adopts the cylinder laminating that upper strata display material and lower floor's control circuit are incorporated into one simultaneously.Enumerate no longer one by one at this.
In addition, though the foregoing description is to be example to mould basic electrophoretic display panel, the inventive method can be applied to mould the LCDs (PDLC) that base disperses, charged twin color ball (Gyricon) display screen, Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display screen etc. equally.The liquid crystal material (PDLC) of moulding the base dispersion is usually by liquid crystal molecule, pigment and macromolecular material are formed, the charged twin color ball of Gyricon then is suspended between the silicone oil, if be coated with continuously or print these display layers on the base material of rolling, in follow-up cutting flow process, will unavoidably make to have residual chemicals around the display layer and contaminated.The present invention's coating and printing selectively becomes piece, seal with bonding coat, not only save required display layer material, and need not clean residual chemical, in the later stage assembling, above-mentioned display screen all needs display layer and lower circuit layer are glued together, and utilizes bonding coat of the present invention circuit and display layer can be connected together effectively, has saved common required edge sealing process again.At present, increasing research concentrates on the printing of flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode material and makes, and flow process of the present invention and structure also may be used for this field, simplify its production in enormous quantities in the future.

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1, a kind of flexible thin electrophoretic display panel, it is characterized in that comprising upper strata display layer and lower floor's control circuit of tool barrier property, wherein said upper strata display layer includes transparent conductive film substrate, display material layer and the nano composite material bonding coat of barrier layer, described nano composite material bonding coat is held concurrently bonding coat and edge seal layer in one, and described upper strata display layer links to each other by the nano composite material bonding coat in the display layer of described upper strata with the lower floor control circuit.
2, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that described the transparent conductive film substrate of barrier layer is arranged is base material with terephthalic acid (TPA) polyglycol ester or naphthalenedicarboxylic acid polyglycol ester film, on base material, be added with the layer of transparent barrier layer, on transparent barrier layer, be added with one deck indium tin oxide transparency conducting layer.
3, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that described the resistance conductive layer scope of the transparent conductive film substrate of barrier layer is arranged is 30-300 Ω/.
4, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that the described transparent conductive film substrate that barrier layer is arranged under 100  and 90%RH condition, the steam rate of propagation be lower than 0.2 the gram/square metre/day.
5, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that described the plastic basis material thickness of the transparent conductive film substrate of barrier layer is arranged is the 15-500 micron.
6, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that described the plastic basis material thickness of the transparent conductive film substrate of barrier layer is arranged is the 50-250 micron.
7, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 1, the thickness that it is characterized in that described display material layer is the 1-500 micron.
8, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 1, the thickness that it is characterized in that described display material layer is the 2-100 micron.
9, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 1, the thickness that it is characterized in that described display material layer is the 5-50 micron.
10, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that described lower floor control circuit is driven by direct drive-type, passive matrix or active-matrix method.
11, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that described lower floor control circuit comprises lower floor's control circuit substrate, one dielectric layer and one deck conductive layer at least at least.
12, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 11, it is characterized in that described lower floor control circuit substrate is sheet metal or the plastic sheeting that has barrier layer, under 100  and 90%RH condition, the steam rate of propagation of described lower floor control circuit substrate be lower than 0.2 the gram/square metre/day.
13, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 11 is characterized in that described lower floor control circuit substrate is the stainless steel thin slice.
14, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 11 is characterized in that the barrier layer in the described plastic sheeting that has a barrier layer comprises the coat of metal, inorganic, ceramic layer or organic barrier layer.
15, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 1, the resistivity that it is characterized in that the resistivity of described nano composite material bonding coat and described upper strata display layer near or the specific inductive capacity of the specific inductive capacity of described nano composite material bonding coat and described upper strata display layer approaching.
16, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 15 is characterized in that described nano composite material bonding coat comprises the macromolecular material of 75-95% volume ratio and the nano-inorganic substance of 1-20% volume ratio.
17, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 16 is characterized in that described macromolecular material comprises the potpourri of polyethylene vinyl acetate ester, polyester, epoxy resin, polyurethane, acrylate or multiple previous materials.
18, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 16 is characterized in that described nano-inorganic substance comprises nanoclay, silicon dioxide, nanofiber, nano-silicon oxide, and described nano-inorganic substance size is the 1-100 nanometer.
19, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 15 is characterized in that described nano composite material bonding coat comprises the destaticizer of 0-5% volume ratio, and the resistivity of described nano composite material bonding coat reaches 10 8~10 9Ω-cm scope.
20, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 19 is characterized in that described destaticizer is that kation goes static compound, negative ion to remove static compound or conducting polymer.
21,, it is characterized in that described nano composite material bonding coat comprises the surfactant of 0-2% volume ratio as claim 15 or 19 described flexible thin electrophoretic display panels.
22, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 21 is characterized in that described surfactant is silicone or sorbierite dodecyl surfactant.
23, flexible thin electrophoretic display panel as claimed in claim 11, it is characterized in that also comprising same lower floor's control circuit and a same upper strata display layer, the shared lower floor's control circuit substrate of described two lower floor's control circuits, and lay respectively at the both sides of lower floor's control circuit substrate, a upper strata display layer wherein and a side lower floor control circuit of control circuit substrate are bonding, the opposite side lower floor control circuit of another piece upper strata display layer and control circuit substrate is bonding, forms a two-sided display screen.
24, a kind of method of making the described flexible thin electrophoretic display panel of claim 1, it may further comprise the steps:
(100): during upper strata display layer rolling was produced continuously, display material became bulk to be coated with the formation display material layer continuously having on the transparent conductive film substrate of barrier layer;
(110): one deck bonding coat is coated with continuously is covered on the display material layer, form the upper strata display layer;
(120): cut into block upper strata display layer along the transparent conductive film substrate centre joint place that barrier layer is arranged between the material display layer;
(130): the dielectric layer of making circuit and conductive layer are to form lower floor's control circuit on lower floor's control circuit substrate;
(140): upper strata display layer and lower floor's control circuit are incorporated into one by bonding coat.
25, a kind of method of making the described flexible thin electrophoretic display panel of claim 23, it may further comprise the steps:
(200): during upper strata display layer rolling was produced continuously, display material became bulk to be coated with the formation display material layer continuously having on the transparent conductive film substrate of barrier layer;
(210): one deck bonding coat is coated with continuously is covered on the display material layer, form the upper strata display layer;
(220): cut into block upper strata display layer along the transparent conductive film substrate centre joint place that barrier layer is arranged between the material display layer;
(230): make the dielectric layer of circuit and conductive layer in the both sides of lower floor's control circuit substrate to form two lower floor's control circuits of shared lower floor's control circuit substrate;
(240): two upper strata display layers are incorporated into one with two lower floor's control circuits by bonding coat respectively, form the display screen of a two-sided demonstration.
26,, it is characterized in that described step (100) or step (200) utilize piece-shape type coating or pre-metering type coating process as claim 24 or 25 described a kind of methods of making the flexible thin electrophoretic display panel.
27,, it is characterized in that the dielectric layer and the conductive layer of described step (130) or step (230) lower floor control circuit utilizes polymer thick film technology or evaporating deposition technique to make as claim 24 or 25 described a kind of methods of making the flexible thin electrophoretic display panel.
28,, it is characterized in that described step (140) or step (240) utilization heating, pressurization or the combination of hot pressing film method as claim 24 or 25 described a kind of methods of making the flexible thin electrophoretic display panel.
29,, it is characterized in that bonding coat utilizes melt-extruded method, solution mixing method or in-situ synthesis preparation in described step (110) or the step (210) as claim 24 or 25 described a kind of methods of making the flexible thin electrophoretic display panel.
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