US 11,860,667 B2
Display device comprising pressure sensor
Choon Hyop Lee, Anyang-si (KR); Sang Chul Lee, Yongin-si (KR); Ga Young Kim, Hwaseong-si (KR); Kang Won Lee, Seoul (KR); Seung Hwan Chung, Seongnam-si (KR); and Do Ik Kim, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Appl. No. 17/263,705
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
PCT Filed Dec. 20, 2018, PCT No. PCT/KR2018/016282
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 27, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/022589, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0088079 (KR), filed on Jul. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0294475 A1, Sep. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/04146 (2019.05) 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display panel including a planar portion, a first curved portion connected to one side of the planar portion, and a first side portion connected to one side of the first curved portion, the display panel further including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface;
a window on the first surface of the display panel;
a first pressure sensor overlapping the first side portion in a direction perpendicular to the first surface of the first side portion of the display panel,
wherein the first side portion is non-coplanar with each of the planar portion and the first curved portion,
a cover panel below the second surface of the display panel and overlapping the planar portion and the first curved portion,
wherein the first pressure sensor is below the second surface of the display panel,
wherein the first pressure sensor overlaps the display panel in a direction perpendicular to the first surface of the planar portion of the display panel, and
wherein the first pressure sensor is spaced apart from the cover panel.