Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorDonghwan Kim
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Abstract
A display apparatus includes a display panel including a central area, a corner area defined at a corner of the central area, and a middle area between the central area and the corner area, and an upper organic layer disposed on the display panel, where the corner area includes a first extension area and a second extension area, the first extension area extends in a direction away from the central area, the second extension area extends in the direction away from the central area and is spaced apart from the first extension area, and the upper organic layer includes a first upper organic layer extension area overlapping the first extension area and a second upper organic layer extension area overlapping the second extension area.
Claims6
A method of manufacturing a display apparatus, the method comprising:
- preparing a display panel, wherein a corner area of the display panel comprises a first extension area and a second extension area;
- attaching a guide film to the display panel;
- pre-shaping the display panel by applying an external force to the guide film;
- and
- attaching a cover window to the display panel,
- wherein the preparing the display panel comprises:
- attaching an upper organic layer, to which an upper organic layer adhesive layer is attached, to an upper surface of the display panel;
- forming a first upper organic layer extension area overlapping the first extension area, and a second upper organic layer extension area overlapping the second extension area, by cutting a portion of the upper organic layer on the corner area of the display panel using a laser beam;
- and
- attaching a lower organic layer, to which a lower organic layer adhesive layer is attached, to a lower surface of the display panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.