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US 12,493,325 B2Granted
Display device
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorsKyung-Man Kim, Chan-Jae Park, Sunok Oh
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Abstract
A display device includes a display panel that includes a foldable area and a non-foldable area adjacent to the foldable area, and a first support member disposed under the display panel. The first support member includes a fabric that includes a flexible portion that overlaps the foldable area and a rigid portion that overlaps the non-foldable area. The rigid portion is woven differently from the flexible portion and contains fiber reinforced plastic.
Claims20
A display device, comprising:
- a display panel that includes a foldable area and a non-foldable area adjacent to the foldable area;
- and
- a first support member disposed under the display panel, wherein the first support member includes a fabric that includes:
- a flexible portion that overlaps the foldable area;
- and
- a rigid portion that overlaps the non-foldable area, wherein the rigid portion is woven differently from the flexible portion and contains fiber reinforced plastic,
- wherein,
- the rigid portion includes first weft yarns and first warp yarns each arranged with a first pitch,
- at least a central region of the flexible portion includes second weft yarns and second warp yarns each arranged with a second pitch substantially the same as the first pitch, wherein the flexible portion does not contain fiber reinforced plastic;
- and
- the first and second warp yarns and the first and second weft yarns use the same fiber.
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A display device, comprising:
- a display panel that includes a foldable area and a non-foldable area adjacent to the foldable area;
- and
- a first support member disposed under the display panel, wherein the first support member includes a fabric that includes:
- a flexible portion that overlaps the foldable area;
- and
- a rigid portion that overlaps the non-foldable area and contains fiber reinforced plastic,
- wherein the flexible portion and the rigid portion are formed as different regions of a same continuous layer, the rigid portion includes yarns extending in two different first directions and the flexible portion includes yarns extending in two different second directions that are diagonal with respect to the first directions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.