US 11,968,789 B2
Display device
Seong Sik Ahn, Yongin-si (KR); Min Ki Kim, Hwaseong-si (KR); and Ah-Ram Lee, Cheonan-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed on Dec. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/078,666.
Application 18/078,666 is a continuation of application No. 16/661,023, filed on Oct. 23, 2019, granted, now 11,528,812.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0148256 (KR), filed on Nov. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0106694 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H05K 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 5/0017 (2013.01) 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising
a front display area; and
a plurality of side display areas; and
a corner display area,
wherein the plurality of side display areas and the corner display area are disposed outside of the front display area,
wherein the plurality of side display areas comprise:
a first side display area adjacent to the front display area in a first direction; and
a second side display area adjacent to the front display area in a second direction generally perpendicular to the first direction,
wherein the corner display area is adjacent to a corner of the front display area between the first side display area and the second side display area, the corner display area being connected to the first side display area and the second side display area, and
wherein:
the front display area has a substantially flat display surface;
the first side display area, the second side display area, and the corner display area respectively form a bent surface, and
wherein:
the front display area comprises a plurality of first display units, and the plurality of first display units respectively have a first side extending in the second direction and a second side extending in the first direction; and
the first side display area comprises a plurality of second display units, and the plurality of second display units respectively have a first side extending in the second direction and a second side extending in the first direction;
in an unbent state of each of the first side display areas, a first pitch, which is a distance between first sides of two of the first display units adjacent each other in the first direction, is greater than a second pitch, which is a distance between first sides of two of the second display units adjacent each other in the first direction, and a third pitch, which is a distance between second sides of two of the first display units adjacent each other in the second direction, is substantially the same as a fourth pitch, which is a distance between second sides of two of the second display units adjacent each other in the second direction; and
in a bent state of each of the first side display areas, the first pitch is substantially the same as the second pitch, and the third pitch is substantially the same as the fourth pitch.