US 11,899,862 B2
Display panel and display apparatus including the same
Seunglyong Bok, Yongin-si (KR); Yongje Jeon, Yongin-si (KR); Songi Kim, Yongin-si (KR); Okkyung Park, Yongin-si (KR); Youngran Son, Yongin-si (KR); Dongho Lee, Yongin-si (KR); and Seunghoon Lee, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Nov. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/094,368.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0174360 (KR), filed on Dec. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0191552 A1, Jun. 24, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G09G 3/3233 (2016.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H10K 50/858 (2023.01); H10K 50/842 (2023.01); H10K 59/38 (2023.01); H10K 59/40 (2023.01); H10K 59/121 (2023.01); H10K 59/125 (2023.01); H10K 77/10 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 3/0412 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1626 (2013.01); G06F 3/0443 (2019.05); G06F 3/0446 (2019.05); G09G 3/3233 (2013.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H10K 50/8426 (2023.02); H10K 50/858 (2023.02); H10K 59/121 (2023.02); H10K 59/125 (2023.02); H10K 59/38 (2023.02); H10K 59/40 (2023.02); H10K 77/111 (2023.02)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display panel comprising:
a main display area and a component area, the component area including a transmission area;
a substrate including a groove disposed in the transmission area in a depth direction of the substrate, the groove disposed within a layer of the substrate based on a removal of a portion of the layer from the substrate in a thickness direction of the substrate corresponding to the depth direction;
main display elements disposed above the substrate in the main display area;
main pixel circuits electrically connected to the main display elements;
auxiliary display elements disposed above the substrate in the component area; and
auxiliary pixel circuits electrically connected to the auxiliary display elements, wherein
the substrate comprises a first base layer, a first inorganic barrier layer, a second base layer, and a second inorganic barrier layer that are sequentially stacked,
the second inorganic barrier layer comprises a first opening in the transmission area,
the second base layer comprises a second opening overlapping the first opening, and
the groove comprises the first opening, the second opening, and an upper surface of the first inorganic barrier layer.