IP Library Granted Patent US 9,433,087
Granted Patent B2
US 9,433,087 · App. 14/482,177 · Granted Aug 30, 2016

Display device

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Patent No.
US 9,433,087
App. No.
14/482,177
Granted
Aug 30, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device includes: a glass substrate including a driver circuit and a plurality of connection terminals that is connected to the driver circuit and is arranged in an array, and an elongated FPC, which has a plurality of panel connection terminals that correspond to the connection terminals and which is mounted on the glass substrate, wherein the FPC has a coverlay. The FPC has a chamfered-area end gap between an end portion of the coverlay facing an end face of the glass substrate and a chamfered-area end portion of the glass substrate in a mounted state, wherein the chamfered-area end gap is covered with an insulating resin, and wherein the chamfered-area end gap at a center portion of the FPC is narrower than the chamfered-area end gap at both end portions of the FPC.

Claims (17)

1. A display device comprising:

a glass substrate including a driver circuit and a plurality of connection terminals that is connected to the driver circuit and is arranged in an array, and

an elongated Flexible Printed Circuit (FPC), which has a plurality of panel connection terminals that correspond to the connection terminals and which is mounted on the glass substrate,

wherein the FPC has a base film, a base-film-adhering material, a coverlay and a conductor for wiring,

wherein the FPC has a chamfered-area end gap between an end portion of the coverlay facing an end face of the glass substrate and a chamfered-area end portion of the glass substrate in a mounted state,

wherein the chamfered-area end gap is covered with an insulating resin, and

wherein the chamfered-area end gap at a center portion of the FPC is narrower than the chamfered-area end gap at both end portions of the FPC.

2. The display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein four sides in the end face of the glass substrate is chamfered, and

wherein the plurality of the connection terminals is provided at one side of the four sides in the end face of the glass substrate,

wherein a chamfered amount at the center portion of the one side is smaller than the chamfered amount at the both end portions of the one side.

3. The display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the FPC has an end-face gap between the end portion of the coverlay facing the end face of the glass substrate and the end face of the glass substrate in a mounted state, and

wherein the end-face gap at the center portion of the FPC is narrower than the end-face gap at both end portions of the FPC.

4. The display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the plurality of panel connection terminals of the FPC is divided into three or more blocks, and

wherein among the plurality of blocks, the gap corresponding to the panel connection terminal arranged in an outer block in a terminal array direction of the FPC is wider than the gap corresponding to the panel connection terminals arranged in the other blocks provided on a center side.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 16, 2022
From: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
To: TRIVALE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Reel/Frame 059024/0437 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 10, 2014
From: TASHIRO, TOMOHIRO
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 033709/0260 →