Display apparatus

#The present invention relates to a display apparatus, and relates in particular to a display apparatus in which a display area is sealed between members that are adhered together with a resin layer in between.

#In recent years, the importance of interfaces between people and machines including multimedia-oriented products has started to grow. In order for people to operate machines more comfortably and efficiently, it is necessary to draw information from the machine to be operated without error, briefly, instantaneously, and in sufficient amounts, and various display apparatuses as interfaces to that end are being studied.

#Currently, liquid crystal display apparatuses are used in many of the manufactured goods we use daily, such as compact TV sets, clocks, electronic calculators, not to mention laptop-type information processing devices. These liquid crystal display apparatuses are configured such that the peripheral portions of two sheets of members, on which electrodes are formed, are adhered together and sealed with a resin material in between, and liquid crystal is filled between the electrodes of these members. The liquid crystal display apparatus displays by changing the alignment of liquid crystal molecules by applying a voltage from the electrodes and controlling the transmission of light in the liquid crystal layer.

#FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a display apparatus according to an embodiment.

#FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating one configuration example of an organic EL element used in the display apparatus of an embodiment.

#FIG. 3 is a schematic front elevation view of an adhesion apparatus according to an embodiment.

#Below, embodiments of a display apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail based on the drawings.

#Here, explanations will be made of each embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a display apparatus of a configuration where organic EL elements are provided in a display area as light emitting elements. However, as long as the display apparatus is configured such that two members are adhered with each other and a display area is sealed therebetween, the display apparatus of the present invention is not limited to one using organic EL elements as light emitting elements. For example, the present invention is widely applicable to display apparatuses using self emissive type light emitting elements such as inorganic electroluminescent elements, and further, to liquid crystal display apparatuses and the like. In addition, the same reference numerals and symbols are applied to members that are similar to the elements that were described using FIG. 22 and FIG. 23 in the conventional art.

#The difference between the display apparatus of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 and the display apparatus explained in the conventional art lies in the form of adhesion of an element member L, configured by providing a light emitting element 2 on one sheet of a base material 1, and a sealing member U, provided so as to face the element member L in order to seal this light emitting element 2, with a resin layer m in between.