US 2021/0202908 A1 · DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME

Abstract

A method of manufacturing a display apparatus includes providing a substrate, forming a display unit defining an opening portion in a display region over the substrate, forming a thin film encapsulation layer to seal the display unit, forming a touch electrode over the thin film encapsulation layer, forming a touch insulating film covering the touch electrode such that the thin film encapsulation layer and the touch insulating film are sequentially stacked and formed over the substrate in the opening portion, forming a touch contact hole by removing a portion of the touch insulating film to expose a portion of the touch electrode, and removing a portion of the touch insulating film and a portion of the thin film encapsulation layer formed in the opening portion to expose a portion of the substrate during the forming of the touch contact hole.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A display apparatus, comprising:

a substrate having a hole;
a pixel array over the substrate, the pixel array comprising a plurality of pixels that are arranged around the hole;
an encapsulation layer over the pixel array and comprising a first inorganic film, an organic film, and a second inorganic film, wherein the organic film is interposed between the first inorganic film and the second inorganic film;
a touch layer over the encapsulation layer, the touch layer comprising a touch insulating film and a plurality of touch electrodes;
and
a passivation layer including organic material and located over the touch layer, wherein the passivation layer overlaps at least a part of the touch insulating film in a region between the pixel array and the hole.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/180,622Filed 19 Feb 2021

Priority

KR 10-2016-001636012 Feb 2016

Published

1 Jul 2021

Term ends

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Classification11 codes

G04B 19/12
Dials: selection of materials for dials or graduations markings
G04B 19/04
Indicating the time by visual means: hands; Discs with a single mark or the like
G06F 3/0412
Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means: digitisers structurally integrated in a display
H10K 59/40
Integrated devices, or assemblies of multiple devices, comprising at least one organic light-emitting element covered by group H10K50/00: oLEDs…

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