US 12,439,800 B2
Display panel and display device including the same
Beonghun Beon, Yongin-si (KR); Woosuk Jung, Yongin-si (KR); Minha Kim, Yongin-si (KR); Sunhwa Kim, Yongin-si (KR); Jeseon Yeon, Yongin-si (KR); Kwanhee Lee, Yongin-si (KR); and Dukjin Lee, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Sep. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/030,223.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0027978 (KR), filed on Mar. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0280825 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. H10K 59/60 (2023.01); H10K 50/80 (2023.01); H10K 50/844 (2023.01); H10K 59/65 (2023.01); H10K 59/80 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/60 (2023.02) [H10K 50/844 (2023.02); H10K 50/868 (2023.02); H10K 59/65 (2023.02); H10K 59/8731 (2023.02); H10K 59/8791 (2023.02)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display panel, comprising:
a main display area and a component area, the component area including an auxiliary display area and a transmission area;
a substrate;
a plurality of main display elements arranged on the substrate in the main display area, and a plurality of main pixel circuits respectively connected to the main display elements;
a plurality of auxiliary display elements arranged on the substrate in the auxiliary display area, and a plurality of auxiliary pixel circuits respectively connected to the auxiliary display elements;
an encapsulation member disposed on the main display elements and the auxiliary display elements;
an optical clear adhesive layer disposed between an optical functional layer and the encapsulation member; and
the optical functional layer disposed on the optical clear adhesive layer, and including a polarization area corresponding to the main display area and the auxiliary display area, and a non-polarization area corresponding to the transmission area,
wherein the optical functional layer continuously extends from the main display area to the auxiliary display area,
wherein a lower surface of the non-polarization area is in direct contact with the optical clear adhesive layer at the transmission area where none of the plurality of main display elements and the plurality of auxiliary display elements are located in a plan view,
wherein the component area overlaps with the polarization area and the non-polarization area,
wherein the polarization area comprises a plurality of polarization areas and the non-polarization area comprises a plurality of non-polarization areas, the plurality of polarization areas and the plurality of non-polarization areas being alternately located along a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction in the component area, and
wherein each of the plurality of polarization areas has a region overlapping with an entirety of at least two of the plurality of auxiliary display elements adjacent to each other in the first direction, and the region has a length in the first direction that is less than or equal to that of an adjacent non-polarization area adjacent thereto in the second direction from among the plurality of non-polarization areas.