US 12,150,330 B2
Display device
Jin Yong Sim, Seongnam-si (KR); Sung Chul Choi, Hwaseong-si (KR); In Soo Park, Hwaseong-si (KR); and Dongwoo Seo, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Apr. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/302,871.
Application 18/302,871 is a continuation of application No. 17/186,793, filed on Feb. 26, 2021, granted, now 11,653,520.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0078744 (KR), filed on Jun. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0269959 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); F16C 11/04 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01); H10K 50/84 (2023.01); H10K 102/00 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 50/84 (2023.02) [F16C 11/04 (2013.01); G06F 1/1681 (2013.01); H04M 1/0268 (2013.01); H10K 2102/311 (2023.02)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display panel comprising a first non-folding area, a second non-folding area, and a folding area disposed between the first non-folding area and the second non-folding area, the first non-folding area, the second non-folding area, and the folding area being arranged in a first direction;
a reflection preventing layer disposed on the display panel;
a window disposed on the reflection preventing layer;
a window protection layer disposed on the window;
a panel protection layer disposed below the display panel;
a first support plate disposed below the first non-folding area; and
a second support plate disposed below the second non-folding area,
wherein the folding area comprises:
a curved part having a predetermined curvature radius when the display panel is folded;
a first extension part bent from the first non-folding area extending to the curved part; and
a second extension part bent from the second non-folding area extending to the curved part, and
wherein a distance between the first non-folding area and the second non-folding area is less than the predetermined curvature radius of the curved part when the display panel is folded.