US 12,111,692 B2
Display device including a step covering layer
Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Hwaseong-si (KR); Da Som Gu, Asan-si (KR); Yun Jae Kim, Cheonan-si (KR); Yong Chan Jeon, Cheonan-si (KR); and Hyun Been Hwang, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Nov. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/520,925.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0148633 (KR), filed on Nov. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0147102 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1643 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1616 (2013.01); G06F 1/1656 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display panel comprising a folding area and a first non-folding area extended from a first folding line located on a first side of the folding area;
a digitizer layer disposed on the display panel and comprising electrode patterns; and
a step covering layer disposed between the display panel and the digitizer layer, wherein the step covering layer comprises a first metal plate, a second metal plate, and a first non-metal plate, wherein the first metal plate overlaps the folding area,
wherein the second metal plate overlaps the first non-folding area, and
wherein the first non-metal plate overlaps the first non-folding area and is disposed on a first surface of the second metal plate.