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US 11,455,914 B2Granted
Display device
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorsHyoyul Yoon, Min-Sung Kim, Jae Hoon Jeong, Hansun Ryou, Kyoungah Lee
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Abstract
A display device includes a display panel including a folding area at which the display device is foldable or unfoldable about a folding axis and a non-folding area adjacent to the folding area, a supporter which faces the folding area and the non-folding area, and in the folding area, a pad between the display panel and the supporter, the pad protruding from the supporter to the display panel and extending parallel to the folding axis.
Claims20
A display device, comprising:
- a display panel including:
- a folding area at which the display device is foldable or unfoldable about a folding axis, and
- a non-folding area adjacent to the folding area;
- a supporter which faces the folding area and the non-folding area;
- and
- in the folding area, a pad between the display panel and the supporter, the pad protruding from the supporter to the display panel and extending parallel to the folding axis,
- wherein
- the display panel includes a top surface which is furthest from the supporter, and a height of the display panel is defined at the top surface of the display panel, and
- the height of the display panel at the folding area is different from the height of the display panel at the non-folding area, according to a shape of the pad.
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A display device, comprising:
- a display panel including:
- a folding area at which the display device is foldable or unfoldable about a folding axis, and
- a non-folding area adjacent to the folding area;
- a supporter which faces the non-folding area;
- and
- in the non-folding area, a pad between the display panel and the supporter, the pad protruding from the supporter to the display panel and extending parallel to the folding axis,
- wherein
- the display panel includes a top surface which is furthest from the supporter and a height of the display is defined at the top surface of the display panel, and
- the height of the display panel at the folding area is different from the height of the display panel at the non-folding area according to a shape of the pad.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.