US 11,925,062 B2
Display device having film with protruding portion
Junghoon Han, Uiwang-si (KR); Jihoon Kim, Cheonan-si (KR); and Daeseung Mun, Cheonan-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Dec. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/457,713.
Application 17/457,713 is a continuation of application No. 16/995,198, filed on Aug. 17, 2020, granted, now 11,195,891.
Application 16/995,198 is a continuation of application No. 15/783,101, filed on Oct. 13, 2017, granted, now 10,748,973, issued on Aug. 18, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2016-0158645 (KR), filed on Nov. 25, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0093706 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H10K 59/12 (2023.01); G09G 3/3225 (2016.01); H10K 50/84 (2023.01); H10K 77/10 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/12 (2023.02) [G09G 3/3225 (2013.01); H10K 50/841 (2023.02); H10K 77/111 (2023.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display panel including a first panel portion, a second panel portion disposed below the first panel portion, and a third panel portion connected to the first panel portion and the second panel portion;
a first film disposed below the first panel portion and including a first upper surface facing the first panel portion and a first bottom surface spaced apart from the first panel portion with the first upper surface interposed therebetween; and
a second film disposed on the second panel portion and including a second upper surface facing the second panel portion and a second bottom surface spaced apart from the second panel portion with the second upper surface interposed therebetween,
wherein the third panel portion is a curved portion of the display panel,
wherein the first film has a first protruding portion protruding from the first bottom surface in a direction away from the first upper surface,
wherein the second film has a second protruding portion protruding from the second bottom surface in a direction away from the second upper surface,
wherein a minimum radius of a curvature of the third panel portion is greater than a first thickness of the first film on which the first protruding portion is disposed,
wherein the minimum radius of the curvature of the third panel portion is greater than a second thickness of the second film on which the second protruding portion is disposed,
wherein the first bottom surface includes a first surface facing the first protruding portion, and a second surface not facing the first protruding portion,
wherein the second bottom surface includes a third surface facing the second protruding portion, and a fourth surface not facing the second protruding portion,
wherein a whole area of the first surface is smaller than a whole area of the second surface, and
wherein a whole area of the third surface is smaller than a whole area of the fourth surface.