US 12,004,408 B2
Display device and electronic device including the same
Jaiku Shin, Hwaseong-si (KR); Jinhyoung Kim, Seoul (KR); and Sung Chul Choi, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/723,063.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0102756 (KR), filed on Aug. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0045544 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H10K 59/65 (2023.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01); H10K 50/87 (2023.01); H10K 77/10 (2023.01); H10K 102/00 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/65 (2023.02) [G02F 1/133305 (2013.01); G02F 1/133308 (2013.01); H10K 50/87 (2023.02); H10K 77/111 (2023.02); G02F 2201/503 (2013.01); H10K 2102/311 (2023.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display panel including a first area, a bending area, and a second area arranged along a first direction, the second area being configured to be located underneath the first area in a thickness direction when the bending area is bent; and
a spacer between the first area and the second area, and comprising:
a first part; and
a second part protruding from the first part in the first direction,
wherein opposite sides of the second part in a second direction that crosses the first direction and the thickness direction define steps that are stepped from the first part along the second direction, and the steps are located at an outside of the second area in a plan view.