US 2015/0310776 A1 · FLEXIBLE DISPLAY DEVICE

Abstract

A flexible display device includes a flexible display panel, an outer member disposed on a surface of the flexible display panel and including an electrode layer, and a stress control member disposed between the flexible display panel and the outer member, where the stress control member allows neutral planes to be defined in the flexible display panel and the outer member, respectively, when the flexible display device is bent, the outer member includes a touch panel including the electrode layer, a flexible member disposed on the touch panel, and an adhesive layer disposed between the touch panel and the flexible member and which couples the touch panel to the flexible member, and a neutral plane of the outer member is defined in the touch panel.

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Dependent claims

A flexible display device comprising:

a flexible display panel;
an outer member disposed on a surface of the flexible display panel and comprising an electrode layer;
and
a stress control member disposed between the flexible display panel and the outer member, wherein the stress control member allows neutral planes to be defined in the flexible display panel and the outer member, respectively, when the flexible display device is bent,
wherein the outer member comprises:
a touch panel comprising the electrode layer;
a flexible member disposed on the touch panel;
and
an adhesive layer disposed between the touch panel and the flexible member and which couples the touch panel to the flexible member, and wherein a neutral plane of the outer member is defined in the touch panel.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/620,571Filed 12 Feb 2015

Priority

KR 10-2014-005093728 Apr 2014

Published

29 Oct 2015

Term ends

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Classification7 codes

G06F 1/1652
Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing: the display being flexible,…
G06F 3/041
Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form: digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads,…
G06F 3/0412
Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means: digitisers structurally integrated in a display
H04M 1/0268
For a display module assembly: including a flexible display panel

Flexible display device

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Abstract

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