Optimal mounting of a flexible display
AssigneePolyera Corporation
InventorsHjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema, Kwok Wah Mok
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Abstract
A method for mounting a flexible electronics component to a support structure includes bending the flexible electronics component to be aligned with a curved contour. The curved contour is determined based on a flexibility requirement of a product in which the flexible electronics component is to be integrated and one or more flexibility constraints of the flexible electronics component. The method also includes bending the support structure to be aligned with the curved contour, and adhering the bent flexible electronics component to the bent support structure to produce a flexible electronics assembly.
Claims20
A method for mounting a flexible electronics component to a support structure, the method comprising:
- bending the flexible electronics component to be aligned with a curved contour, the curved contour determined based on a flexibility requirement of a product in which the flexible electronics component is to be integrated and based on one or more flexibility constraints of the flexible electronics component;
- bending the support structure to be aligned with the curved contour;
- and
- adhering the bent flexible electronics component to the bent support structure to produce a flexible electronics assembly,
- wherein the flexible electronics assembly maintains a strain distribution compliant with the one or more flexibility constraints of the flexible electronics component when flexed according to the flexibility requirement of the product.
A flexible electronics assembly comprising:
- a flexible electronics component;
- and
- a support structure component fixedly adhered to the flexible electronics component to constrain flexing of the flexible electronics component to within one or more flexing boundaries so as to prevent damage to one or more critical layers of the flexible electronics display,
- wherein the support structure component is adhered to the flexible electronics component by:
- bending the flexible electronics component to be aligned with a curved contour, the curved contour determined based on a flexibility requirement of a product in which the flexible electronics is to be integrated and based on the one or more flexing boundaries;
- bending the support structure component to be aligned with the curved contour;
- and
- adhering the bent flexible electronics component to the bent support structure component to produce the flexible electronics assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.