US 12,248,341 B2
Display device
Seunghwan Chung, Seongnam-si (KR); Hung Kun Ahn, Seongnam-si (KR); Seokwon Jang, Seoul (KR); and Jungkyu Jo, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed on Jul. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/370,381.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0145374 (KR), filed on Nov. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0137678 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. G02F 1/13363 (2006.01); G02B 5/30 (2006.01); G02F 1/1335 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1686 (2013.01) [G02B 5/3041 (2013.01); G02F 1/133638 (2021.01); G06F 1/1637 (2013.01); G02F 1/133528 (2013.01); G02F 1/133531 (2021.01); G02F 1/133541 (2021.01); G06F 2200/1634 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display panel;
a polarizing plate disposed above the display panel, wherein the polarizing plate comprises a linear polarization layer, a first phase retardation layer and a second phase retardation layer;
a support member disposed below the display panel, wherein a through hole is defined in the support member;
an electronic module disposed below the display panel, wherein the electronic module overlaps the through hole; and
at least one protective layer disposed above the linear polarization layer, the first phase retardation layer and the second phase retardation layer of the polarizing plate,
wherein an outermost surface of the display device is defined by an upper surface of the protective layer, and
wherein the at least one protective layer disposed above the polarizing plate and defining the outermost surface of the display device has a thickness direction retardation of greater than about 0 nm and not greater than about 1,500 nm.