US 12,082,452 B2
Flexible display apparatus including monitoring and buffering banks
Yujin Jeon, Yongin-si (KR); Wonse Lee, Yongin-si (KR); Sukyoung Kim, Yongin-si (KR); and Donghyeon Jang, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on May 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/310,996.
Application 18/310,996 is a division of application No. 17/129,169, filed on Dec. 21, 2020, granted, now 11,758,772.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0021772 (KR), filed on Feb. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0269973 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. H10K 50/84 (2023.01); H10K 50/844 (2023.01); H10K 59/12 (2023.01); H10K 59/122 (2023.01); H10K 59/124 (2023.01); H10K 59/13 (2023.01); H10K 59/131 (2023.01); H10K 59/40 (2023.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H10K 59/121 (2023.01); H10K 77/10 (2023.01); H10K 102/00 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/124 (2023.02) [H10K 50/844 (2023.02); H10K 59/122 (2023.02); H10K 59/131 (2023.02); G09G 2300/0408 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0804 (2013.01); H01L 27/14678 (2013.01); H05K 2201/09909 (2013.01); H10K 59/1216 (2023.02); H10K 59/40 (2023.02); H10K 77/111 (2023.02); H10K 2102/00 (2023.02); H10K 2102/311 (2023.02)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flexible display apparatus comprising:
a display area disposed on a substrate and including a plurality of pixels;
a non-display area adjacent to the display area and including a bending area;
a first dam surrounding the display area;
a second dam disposed outside the first dam and surrounding the first dam;
a monitoring bank disposed between the display area and the second dam;
a buffering bank disposed outside the monitoring bank and covering an opening in a first insulating layer on the substrate in the bending area;
a thin-film encapsulation layer covering the display area and a portion of the non-display area;
a touch screen layer disposed on the thin-film encapsulation layer; and
a touch connection line electrically connected to the touch screen layer and extending to the non-display area, wherein
an end of the touch connection line is located closer to the display area than the monitoring bank is.