US 11,839,111 B2
Display device having crack prevention portions on a side portion and method of fabricating the same
Jun Won Choi, Seoul (KR); Jae Won Kim, Cheongju-si (KR); and Jun Young Min, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Feb. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/178,414.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0075492 (KR), filed on Jun. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0399071 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. H10K 59/121 (2023.01); H10K 50/844 (2023.01); H10K 59/131 (2023.01); H10K 71/00 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/1213 (2023.02) [H10K 50/844 (2023.02); H10K 59/131 (2023.02); H10K 71/00 (2023.02)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display panel including a front portion and at least one side portion that is bent from at least one side of the front portion,
wherein
the front portion includes a first display area having first pixels disposed on a substrate,
the at least one side portion includes a second display area having second pixels disposed on the substrate and crack prevention portions that are disposed between adjacent second pixels in the second display area and expose an upper surface of the substrate, wherein the crack prevention portions reduce a number of second pixels per unit area in the second display area; and
a number of the first pixels per unit area disposed in the first display area of the front portion is greater than the number of the second pixels per unit area disposed in the second display area of the at least one side portion.