Display device
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorsJooYoung Kim, TaekYoung Hwang, Changmoo Lee, Sangho Hwang, Insun Hwang
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Abstract
A display device includes a display panel, a protective member, a light guide member, a light source, and a light leakage preventing member. The display device includes a display surface concavely curved in a first direction. The light leakage preventing member is coupled to the protective member to be movable according to expansion or contraction of the light guide member. The light leakage preventing member contracts and expands according to the expansion or contraction of the light guide member, and includes an elastic part to prevent the light source from being damaged by the expansion of the light guide member.
Claims18
A display device comprising:
- a display panel that includes a display surface concavely curved along a first direction;
- a lower protective member that accommodates the display panel;
- an upper protective member that partially covers the display panel and includes an opening portion to partially expose the display surface;
- a first light guide member disposed under the display panel and including a first incident surface and configured to guide a light incident to the first incident surface to the display panel;
- an intermediate protective member that supports the display panel and includes a contact surface facing the first incident surface;
- a first light source generating the light incident to the first incident surface and having a portion disposed between the contact surface and the first incident surface;
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- a first light leakage preventing member coupled to the lower protective member to be movable in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction according to expansion or contraction of the first light guide member, having a first portion disposed between the contact surface and the portion of the first light source, and an elastic part protruded from the first portion of the first light leakage preventing member to the contact surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.