Display device having impact resistance layer
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorMin-Sung Kim
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Abstract
A display device includes a display panel and an impact resistance layer. The display panel includes a first display area, a second display area, a first folding display area between the first display area and the second display area, a third display area, and a second folding display area between the second display area and the third display area. The first folding display area is out-foldable such that the first display area is faces outside the display device. The impact resistance layer includes a first portion corresponding to the first display area, the first folding display area and the second display area and a second portion corresponding to the second display area, the second folding display area, and the third display area. The first portion has an elastic modulus greater than the second portion.
Claims21
A display device comprising:
- a display module comprising a display panel including a first display area, a second display area and a third display area, a first folding display area which is between the first display area and the second display area and at which the display module is out-foldable, and a second folding display area which is between the second display area and the third display area and at which the display module is in-foldable;
- and
- an impact resistance layer facing the display module, the impact resistance layer comprising:
- a first portion corresponding to the first display area of the display module and having an elastic modulus,
- a second portion corresponding to the third display area of the display module and having an elastic modulus,
- the second portion spaced apart from the first portion in a first direction along the display module, to define a gap between the first portion and the second portion at which the display module is exposed to outside the impact resistance layer, and
- the gap which exposes the display module to outside the impact resistance layer spaced apart from each of the first folding display area and the second folding display area along the first direction of the display module,
- wherein
- the elastic modulus of the first portion is greater than the elastic modulus of the second portion, and
- the display module which is both out-folded at the first folding display area and in-folded at the second folding display area disposes:
- the first display area and the second display area facing in opposite directions,
- the second display area and the third display area facing each other, and
- the first display area, the first portion of the impact resistance layer, the second display area, the third display area and the second portion of the impact resistance layer in order.
A display device comprising:
- a window;
- and
- in order from the window:
- a display module comprising a first display area, a second display area and a third display area consecutively arranged;
- an impact resistance layer comprising:
- a metal sheet corresponding to the first display area,
- a plastic film corresponding to the third display area,
- the plastic film spaced apart from the metal sheet in a first direction along the display module, to define a gap between the metal sheet and the plastic film at which the display module is exposed to outside the impact resistance layer, and
- the gap which exposes the display module to outside the impact resistance layer spaced apart from each of the first folding display area and the second folding display area along the first direction of the display module;
- and
- a support plate comprising a first area corresponding to the first display area, a second area corresponding to the second display area, a first folding area which is between the first area and the second area and at which the support plate is out-foldable together with the display module, a third area corresponding to the third display area, and a second folding area which is between the second area and the third area and at which the support plate is in-foldable together with the display module;
- wherein
- the support plate which is both out-folded at the first folding area and in-folded at the second folding area disposes:
- the first display area and the second display area facing in opposite directions,
- the second display area and the third display area facing each other, and
- the first display area, the metal sheet of the impact resistance layer, the second display area, the third display area and the plastic film of the impact resistance layer in order.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.