US 11,995,273 B2
Method for manufacturing display device, display device manufactured thereby, and electronic device including the same
Jin Yong Sim, Seongnam-si (KR); Minji Kim, Seoul (KR); Hyunjun Cho, Seoul (KR); and Yonghyuck Lee, Cheonan-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Mar. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/700,931.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0077026 (KR), filed on Jun. 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0397969 A1, Dec. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/042 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); H10K 59/40 (2023.01); H10K 71/00 (2023.01); H10K 77/10 (2023.01); H10K 102/00 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 3/044 (2013.01) [G06F 3/042 (2013.01); H10K 59/40 (2023.02); H10K 71/00 (2023.02); H10K 77/111 (2023.02); G06F 2203/04102 (2013.01); H10K 2102/311 (2023.02)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display panel including:
a folding region that is folded with reference to a folding axis extending in a first direction; and
a first non-folding region and a second non-folding region disposed with the folding region disposed between the first and second non-folding regions;
a support layer disposed under the display panel and overlapping the first non-folding region, the second non-folding region, and the folding region and having an opening formed therein, the support layer being integrally formed so as to be of a single-piece construction; and
a digitizer disposed under the support layer, wherein
the support layer is formed of a reinforcing fiber in the folding region and includes one surface and another surface facing each other,
a first width of the opening on the one surface in a second direction and a second width of the opening on the another surface in the second direction are different from each other, and
the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.