# US 11,910,689 B2 · Display device including capping pattern and method of manufacturing the same > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,910,689 B2 - Document ID: US11910689B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/071,457 - Filed: 2022-11-29 - Published: 2023-03-23 - Granted: 2024-02-20 - Earliest claimed: 2016-07-29 - Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Samsung Display Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Yong-hwan Park; Miyoung Kim; Jongseok Kim - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11910689B2 ## CPC - G06F 1/1652: {the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable} - G06F 3/0412: {Digitisers structurally integrated in a display} - G06F 3/04164: {Connections between sensors and controllers, e.g. routing lines between electrodes and connection pads} - G06F 3/0443: {using a single layer of sensing electrodes} - G06F 3/0446: {using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes} - H10K 10/88: Passivation; Containers; Encapsulations - H10K 59/40: OLEDs integrated with touch screens - H10K 59/88: Dummy elements, i.e. elements having non-functional features - H10K 71/621: {Providing a shape to conductive layers, e.g. patterning or selective deposition} - G06F 2203/04103: Manufacturing, i.e. details related to manufacturing processes specially suited for touch sensitive devices - G06F 2203/04112: Electrode mesh in capacitive digitiser: electrode for touch sensing is formed of a mesh of very fine, normally metallic, interconnected lines that are almost invisible to see. This provides a quite large but transparent electrode surface, without need for ITO or similar transparent conductive material - H10D 86/00: Integrated devices formed in or on insulating or conducting substrates, e.g. formed in silicon-on-insulator [SOI] substrates or on stainless steel or glass substrates - H10K 59/122: Pixel-defining structures or layers, e.g. banks - H10K 59/124: Insulating layers formed between TFT elements and OLED elements - H10K 59/13: comprising photosensors that control luminance - H10K 59/8731: {multilayered coatings having a repetitive structure, e.g. having multiple organic-inorganic bilayers} - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H10K: ORGANIC ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES - H10D: INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES ## Abstract A display device including a substrate having a display area and a peripheral area defined outside the display area, a circuit layer disposed on the substrate, a device layer disposed on the display area, an encapsulation layer covering the device layer, a touch sensing unit including at least one touch insulating layer disposed on the encapsulation layer, touch electrodes disposed on the encapsulation layer, and touch signal lines connected to the touch electrodes, a first section disposed in the peripheral area and including a first part having a first thickness, a second part having a second thickness less than the first thickness and overlapping the touch signal lines, and an intermediate part connecting the first part and the second part and being inclined, and a first thickening pattern overlapping at least the intermediate part. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A display device comprising: a base layer comprising a display area and a non-display area; a device layer disposed on the base layer; an input sensing layer disposed on the device layer, the input sensing layer including electrodes and signal lines electrically connected to the electrodes; a bank layer disposed in the non-display area and including a first portion having a first thickness, a second portion having a second thickness less than the first thickness, and a third portion between the first portion and the second portion; a dam disposed between the display area and the bank layer when viewed in a plan view; and a capping layer disposed on the third portion of the bank layer and including a same material as that of the signal lines. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein the dam surrounds at least a portion of the display area when viewed in a plan view. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein the signal lines overlap the dam. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein the signal lines overlap the second portion of the bank layer. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein the capping layer extends to overlap the first portion of the bank layer. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein the signal lines are spaced apart from the capping layer. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The display device of claim 1, wherein the third portion comprises an inclined surface disposed between an upper surface of the first portion and an upper surface of the second portion. ### Claim 8 A display device comprising: a base layer comprising a display area and a non-display area; a device layer disposed on the base layer; an input sensing layer disposed on the device layer, the input sensing layer including electrodes and signal lines electrically connected to the electrodes; a bank layer disposed in the non-display area and including a first portion having a first thickness, a second portion having a second thickness less than the first thickness, and a third portion between the first portion and the second portion; and a capping layer disposed on the third portion of the bank layer and including a same material as that of the signal lines, wherein: the first portion, the third portion, and the second portion are arranged along a first direction; and portions of the signal lines crossing the bank layer extend in a second direction crossing the first direction. ### Claim 9 A display device comprising: a base layer comprising a display area and a non-display area; a first insulating layer disposed on the base layer and including a first region and a second region; an input sensing layer disposed on the first insulating layer, the input sensing layer comprising electrodes and signal lines electrically connected to the electrodes; a dam disposed in the non-display area and surrounding at least a portion of the display area when viewed in a plan view; and a capping layer disposed on the second region of the first insulating layer, wherein the signal lines are disposed on the first region of the first insulating layer, are spaced apart from the capping layer, and include a same material as the capping layer. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The display device of claim 9, further comprising a second insulating layer disposed between the capping layer and the first insulating layer. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The display device of claim 10, wherein the second insulating layer is disposed on the second region, and the first region of the first insulating layer is not covered by the second insulating layer. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The display device of claim 10, wherein the second insulating layer does not overlap the signal lines and overlaps the capping layer when viewed in a plan view. ### Claim 13 (depends on 9) The display device of claim 9, wherein the dam is disposed between the display area and the capping layer when viewed in a plan view. ### Claim 14 (depends on 9) The display device of claim 9, wherein the signal lines overlap the dam. ### Claim 15 A display device comprising: a base layer comprising a display area and a non-display area; a first insulating layer disposed on the base layer and including a first region and a second region; an input sensing layer disposed on the first insulating layer, the input sensing layer comprising electrodes and signal lines electrically connected to the electrodes; and a capping layer disposed on the second region of the first insulating layer, wherein: the signal lines are disposed on the first region of the first insulating layer, are spaced apart from the capping layer, and include a same material as the capping layer; the first region and the second region are spaced apart from each other in a first direction; and the signal lines are spaced apart from the capping layer in the first direction. ### Claim 16 A display device comprising: a base layer comprising a display area and a non-display area; a first insulating layer disposed on the base layer and including a first region and a second region; an input sensing layer disposed on the first insulating layer, the input sensing layer comprising electrodes and signal lines electrically connected to the electrodes; and a capping layer disposed on the second region of the first insulating layer, wherein: the signal lines are disposed on the first region of the first insulating layer, are spaced apart from the capping layer, and include a same material as the capping layer; the first region and the second region are spaced apart from each other in a first direction; and portions of the signal lines crossing the first insulating layer extend in a second direction crossing the first direction.