US 12,437,719 B2
Display device
Yanghee Kim, Yongin-si (KR); Wonkyu Kwak, Yongin-si (KR); Byungsun Kim, Yongin-si (KR); Bongwon Lee, Yongin-si (KR); and Sujin Lee, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Jan. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/102,992.
Application 18/102,992 is a continuation of application No. 17/239,969, filed on Apr. 26, 2021, granted, now 11,568,814.
Application 17/239,969 is a continuation of application No. 16/573,240, filed on Sep. 17, 2019, granted, now 10,997,919.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0167899 (KR), filed on Dec. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0178026 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G09G 3/3258 (2016.01); G09G 3/3291 (2016.01)
CPC G09G 3/3258 (2013.01) [G09G 3/3291 (2013.01); G09G 2310/0297 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device defining a first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction, the display device comprising:
a display unit disposed over a substrate and including a first display area and a second display areas, each of the first display area and second display areas including a plurality of pixel arrays, wherein the second display areas are arranged in the first direction with the first display area therebetween, wherein a length of a part of the second display areas extending in the second direction is less than a length of the first display area extending in the second direction;
a first electrode extending in the first direction in a non-display area on one side of the display unit;
a plurality of first wires which connects to a plurality of pixels, the plurality of first wires being arranged in the first display area in the first direction and extending in the second direction, extending to an area between the first display area and the first electrode, and at least one of the both ends in the second direction of the first wires being contact with the first electrode;
a plurality of second wires which connects to the plurality of pixels, the plurality of second wires being arranged in the second display area in the first direction, and being apart from the first electrode in an area between the second display area and the first electrode;
a switching unit including a plurality of demultiplexers which is arranged in the non-display area, demuxes a data signal and supplies the demuxed data signal to a plurality of data lines; and
a second line arranged in parallel to the first electrode with the switching unit therebetween and connected to a terminal unit at an edge of the substrate,
wherein the display unit includes a plurality of scan lines and the plurality of data lines respectively connected to the plurality of pixels.