US 12,228,825 B2
Display device including a seal surrounding a liquid crystal layer
Hwan Young Jang, Hwaseong-si (KR); Na Hyeon Cha, Yongin-si (KR); and Sun Kwun Son, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Apr. 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/138,113.
Application 18/138,113 is a division of application No. 16/985,112, filed on Aug. 4, 2020, granted, now 11,650,460.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0100146 (KR), filed on Aug. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0258983 A1, Aug. 17, 2023
Int. Cl. G02F 1/1339 (2006.01); G02F 1/161 (2006.01); G02F 1/1679 (2019.01); H01L 27/12 (2006.01)
CPC G02F 1/1339 (2013.01) [G02F 1/161 (2013.01); G02F 1/1679 (2019.01); H01L 27/124 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a first substrate;
a plurality of pixels disposed in pixel areas of the first substrate and having pixel electrodes;
a second substrate opposing the first substrate;
a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and
a seal disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate to surround the liquid crystal layer,
wherein the seal overlaps pixel areas of some pixels of the plurality of pixels and does not overlap the pixel electrodes of the some pixels,
wherein the plurality of pixels comprise:
a first pixel overlapping the seal and comprising a first pixel electrode, and
a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel not overlapping the seal and comprising a second pixel electrode,
wherein each of the first and second pixels comprises a rectangular region formed of first, second, third, and fourth rectangular sub-regions arranged two-by-two,
wherein the first pixel electrode continuously extends over the second, third, and fourth rectangular sub-regions and does extend to the first rectangular sub-region,
wherein the second pixel electrode continuously extends over an entirety of the rectangular region, and
wherein the seal overlaps the rectangular sub-region of the first pixel and does not overlap the second, third, or fourth rectangular sub-regions of the first pixel.