# US 12,016,228 B2 · Display device and display device production method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,016,228 B2 - Document ID: US12016228B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/279,587 - Filed: 2018-09-28 - Published: 2021-11-04 - Granted: 2024-06-18 - Earliest claimed: 2018-09-28 - Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12016228B2 ## CPC - H10K 59/18: Tiled displays - G09F 9/30: in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements (panels comprising a number of electrodes in a single cell controlling light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. electro-optical or magneto-optical cell, G02F1/00) - G09F 9/40: in which the desired character is selected from a number of characters arranged one beside the other, e.g. on a common carrier plate - H10K 59/131: Interconnections, e.g. wiring lines or terminals - H10K 77/111: {Flexible substrates} - H10W 90/00: Package configurations - H10K 2102/311: {Flexible OLED} - H10W 90/732: {between stacked chips} - Y02E 10/549: Organic PV cells - Y02P 70/50: Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product - H10K: ORGANIC ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES - G09F: DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS - H10W: GENERIC PACKAGES, INTERCONNECTIONS, CONNECTORS OR OTHER CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF DEVICES COVERED BY CLASS H10 - Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION - Y02P: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS ## Abstract A display device including: a plurality of display bodies, wherein each of the plurality of display bodies includes a display region, a frame region surrounding the display region, and a terminal region in the frame region, a surface formed with the terminal region is a first face, the plurality of display bodies include a first display body and a second display body, either one of a first notched frame region provided with a first notched portion in the frame region of the first display body and a second notched frame region provided with a second notched portion in the frame region of the second display body is folded back to form a bonding portion by the first face of the first notched frame region and the first face of the second notched frame region, and the first notched portion and the second notched portion form a through-hole. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A display device comprising: a plurality of display bodies coupled together in a manner that display surfaces of display regions of the plurality of display bodies face the same direction, wherein each of the plurality of display bodies includes the display region, a frame region surrounding the display region, and a terminal region in the frame region, a surface formed with the terminal region is a first face, the plurality of display bodies include a first display body and a second display body, the display region of the first display body is provided with a first notched portion, either one of a first notched frame region provided with the first notched portion in the frame region of the first display body and a second notched frame region provided with a second notched portion in the frame region of the second display body is folded back to form a bonding portion by the first face of the first notched frame region and the first face of the second notched frame region, and the first notched portion and the second notched portion form a through-hole of the display device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein the first face of the first notched frame region and the first face of the second notched frame region are bonded together in a manner that the first notched portion and the second notched portion face each other, and the first notched portion and the second notched portion form one through-hole. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein at least one first notched portion is provided in the display region of the first display body, at least one second notched portion is provided in the display region of the second display body, either one of the first notched frame region and the second notched frame region is folded back to bond the first face of the first notched frame region and the first face of the second notched frame region together, and the at least one first notched portion and the at least one second notched portion form a plurality of the through-holes. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein the terminal region includes a first terminal region provided in the first notched frame region and provided with a plurality of first terminals and a second terminal region provided in the second notched frame region and provided with a plurality of second terminals, either one of the first terminal region and the second terminal region is folded back, and the first terminal region and the second terminal region are bonded together in a manner that each of the plurality of first terminals and each of the plurality of second terminals to be electrically connected to each other. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The display device according to claim 4, wherein either one of a source signal line and a gate signal line of the display device is electrically connected to each of the plurality of first terminals and each of the plurality of second terminals being electrically connected to each other. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The display device according to claim 4, wherein the source signal line or the gate signal line of the first display body electrically connected to each of the plurality of first terminals is routed along the first notched portion to bypass the first notched portion. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The display device according to claim 6, wherein the source signal line or the gate signal line of the second display body electrically connected to each of the plurality of second terminals is routed along the second notched portion to bypass the second notched portion. ### Claim 8 (depends on 5) The display device according to claim 5, wherein each of the plurality of display bodies includes the gate signal line extending in one direction in the display region and the source signal line extending in a direction intersecting the gate signal line, the first terminal region and the second terminal region are bonded together in the bonding portion in a manner that each of the plurality of first terminals and each of the plurality of second terminals are electrically connected to each other, and the gate signal lines of the plurality of display bodies or the source signal lines of the plurality of display bodies are electrically connected to each other. ### Claim 9 (depends on 5) The display device according to claim 5, wherein the frame region of the first display body excluding the first notched frame region and the frame region of the second display body excluding the second notched frame region are provide with a first drive circuit configured to supply a signal to the gate signal line. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The display device according to claim 9, wherein the first drive circuit of the first display body and the first drive circuit of the second display body are electrically connected to each other in the bonding portion. ### Claim 11 (depends on 5) The display device according to claim 5, wherein the frame region of the first display body excluding the first notched frame region and the frame region of the second display body excluding the second notched frame region include a second drive circuit configured to supply a signal to the source signal line. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The display device according to claim 11, wherein the second drive circuit of the first display body and the second drive circuit of the second display body are electrically connected to each other in the bonding portion. ### Claim 13 (depends on 8) The display device according to claim 8, wherein a plurality of the through-holes is provided, and at least some of the plurality of through-holes are provided along an extending direction of the source signal line. ### Claim 14 (depends on 8) The display device according to claim 8, wherein a plurality of the through-holes is provided, and at least some of the plurality of through-holes are provided along an extending direction of the gate signal line. ### Claim 15 (depends on 8) The display device according to claim 8, wherein a plurality of the through-holes is disposed, and an arrangement direction of two through-holes out of the plurality of through-holes intersects the gate signal line and the source signal line. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of display bodies is a flexible display body, and a bendable flexible portion is provided between the terminal region and the display region in the frame region of each of the display bodies. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein the first face of the first display body and the display surface of the first display body face in the same direction. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein the first face of the first display body and the display surface of the first display body face in the opposite direction. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein either one of the first notched frame region and the second notched frame region is folded back by 90 degrees or more. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein either one of the first notched frame region and the second notched frame region is folded back by 180 degrees to form a planer surface.