US 12,080,207 B2
Display device
Kwang-Min Kim, Seoul (KR); Won Kyun Kwak, Seongnam-si (KR); and Seung-Kyu Lee, Anyang-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Apr. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/728,873.
Application 17/728,873 is a continuation of application No. 16/105,593, filed on Aug. 20, 2018, granted, now 10,861,361.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2017-0105712 (KR), filed on Aug. 21, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0254286 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. G09G 3/00 (2006.01); G09G 3/20 (2006.01); G09G 3/30 (2006.01); G09G 3/3225 (2016.01); G09G 3/3233 (2016.01); G09G 3/3266 (2016.01); G09G 3/3291 (2016.01); H01L 21/304 (2006.01); H01L 21/66 (2006.01); H01L 27/32 (2006.01); H10K 59/122 (2023.01); H10K 59/124 (2023.01); H10K 59/131 (2023.01)
CPC G09G 3/006 (2013.01) [G09G 3/3225 (2013.01); G09G 3/3233 (2013.01); G09G 3/3266 (2013.01); G09G 3/3291 (2013.01); H10K 59/131 (2023.02); G09G 2300/0426 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0809 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0819 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0842 (2013.01); G09G 2330/021 (2013.01); G09G 2330/12 (2013.01); H10K 59/122 (2023.02); H10K 59/124 (2023.02)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a substrate including a display area having a plurality of pixels, a pad area having a plurality of input pads, and a circuit area positioned between the pad area and the display area;
a crack sensing line having a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to a first input pad of the plurality of input pads;
a first shorting line extending through the pad area without connecting to any of the input pads, the first shorting line being connected to the second end and extending to an edge of the substrate;
a plurality of data lines connected to the plurality of pixels; and
a crack sensing circuit including a first switching element having an input terminal connected to the first end and an output terminal connected to a first data line of the plurality of data lines, and a second switching element having an input terminal connected to the second end and an output terminal connected to a second data line of the plurality of data lines,
wherein:
the crack sensing line comprises a first portion, a second portion and a third portion;
the first portion and the second portion are substantially parallel to each other; and
the third portion connects the first portion and the second portion to each other.