US 12,193,283 B2
Display device including pad area
Chungi You, Asan-si (KR); Younggug Seol, Cheonan-si (KR); and Kijong Eom, Asan-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed on Nov. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/528,584.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0155480 (KR), filed on Nov. 19, 2020; and application No. 10-2021-0087834 (KR), filed on Jul. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0157918 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. H10K 59/131 (2023.01); H10K 59/88 (2023.01); H10K 71/00 (2023.01); H10K 59/12 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/131 (2023.02) [H10K 59/88 (2023.02); H10K 71/00 (2023.02); H10K 59/1201 (2023.02)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a substrate including a pad region; and
a plurality of pads disposed on the pad region,
wherein a first pad of the plurality of pads comprises:
a first conductive pattern disposed on the pad region of the substrate and having a quadrangle shape in a plan view;
an insulating layer disposed on the substrate and covering the first conductive pattern; and
a second conductive pattern disposed on the insulating layer and contacting the first conductive pattern through a plurality of contact holes defined in the insulating layer,
wherein the quadrangle shape includes a first side extending in a first direction and a second side extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction,
wherein, in the first pad, the plurality of the contact holes are arranged along a diagonal direction of the quadrangle shape in the plan view, and
wherein, in the first pad, along at least one of the first direction and the second direction, each of the plurality of contact holes does not overlap any contact hole of the first pad.