Patent ID: 7365487

Claim:
An organic electroluminescence display apparatus comprising a first substrate being coated with a transistor driving layer in which transistor elements are each provided with a gate, source, and drain interconnections, banks for separating pixels, a lower electrode for each of the pixels, an organic light-emitting layer, and an upper electrode of a transparent material; and a second substrate being coated with an electroconductive shadow pattern, and having openings for the pixels on the first substrate and having color filters formed in the openings; wherein the first and second substrates are sealed by an adhesive layer pro-vided around at least one of the first and second substrates that face each other in such a way that: a sealed space between the first and second substrates is filled with an inert gas and kept under a vacuum; the organic light-emitting layer for each of the pixels surrounded by the banks faces one of the color filters; the upper electrode is covered with a protective film and extended over the banks to be electrically connected to the electroconductive shadow pattern via an electroconductive member; and at least one of the upper electrode and the electroconductive shadow pattern is provided with a power supply point electrically connected to an outside DC power source; and wherein the color filters and the electroconductive shadow pattern formed on the second substrate are further coated with a transparent overcoat film which is opposite to the protective film across the sealed space so as to electrically connect the upper electrode and the electroconductive shadow pattern to each other via the electroconductive member provided therebetween in such a way to pass through both the protective film and the transparent overcoat film.