US 11,937,484 B2
Display device with light control layer and manufacturing method thereof
Keunwoo Park, Incheon (KR); Min-Jae Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Min-Hee Kim, Ansan-si (KR); Taehoon Kim, Suwon-si (KR); DoKyung Youn, Cheonan-si (KR); and Chang-Hun Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on May 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/748,573.
Application 17/748,573 is a continuation of application No. 16/813,563, filed on Mar. 9, 2020, granted, now 11,355,558.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0038168 (KR), filed on Apr. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0285447 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H10K 59/38 (2023.01); H10K 50/854 (2023.01); H10K 50/86 (2023.01); H10K 59/12 (2023.01); H10K 71/00 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/38 (2023.02) [H10K 50/854 (2023.02); H10K 50/865 (2023.02); H10K 59/12 (2023.02); H10K 71/00 (2023.02)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display panel having a pixel area and a peripheral area adjacent to the pixel area;
a light control layer disposed on the display panel and at least partially overlapping the pixel area;
a light blocking portion at least partially overlapping the peripheral area; and
a protective layer disposed between the light control layer and the light blocking portion, wherein
the protective layer comprises a plurality of protection patterns, each protection pattern consisting of a single layer,
at least a portion of each of the plurality of protection patterns overlaps the pixel region, and
a spaced portion overlapping the light blocking portion is defined between each of the plurality of protection patterns.