IP Library Granted Patent US 9,964,810
Granted Patent B2
US 9,964,810 · App. 14/914,845 · Granted May 8, 2018

Display panel

Inventors: Hisashi Watanabe (Osaka, JP); Masayuki Kanehiro (Osaka, JP); Youhei Nakanishi (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G02F1/1339G02F1/1337G02F1/1341G02F2001/133742G02F2201/56
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Patent No.
US 9,964,810
App. No.
14/914,845
Granted
May 8, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display panel includes a pair of substrates a display medium layer held between the pair of substrates and has a display region and a frame region outside the display region and a hole on an inner side of the frame region penetrating the pair of substrates and the display medium layer. The display panel further includes a hole-periphery sealing part disposed between the pair of substrates so as to surround the hole, in which the hole-periphery sealing part includes an angled portion or a protrusion.

Claims (10)

1. A display panel comprising a pair of substrates and a display medium layer held between the pair of substrates, said display panel having a display region and a frame region outside the display region and including a hole on an inner side of the frame region penetrating the pair of substrates and the display medium layer, the display panel further comprising:

a hole-periphery sealing part disposed between the pair of substrates so as to surround the hole; and

an outer sealing part provided so as to surround the display medium layer,

wherein the hole-periphery sealing part includes an angled portion or a protrusion,

wherein the outer sealing part includes an open section in a portion thereof,

wherein the angled portion or the protrusion of the hole-periphery sealing part is provided, behind the hole as seen from the open section of the outer sealing part, on a straight line going through the open section and a center of the hole,

wherein the hole has a shape similar to that of the hole-periphery sealing part.

2. The display panel according to claim 1 , wherein an angle of the angled portion or the protrusion is between 45° to 180°.

3. The display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the hole includes an angled portion or a protrusion, and the angled portion or the protrusion of the hole is disposed at a position corresponding to a position of the angled portion or the protrusion of the hole-periphery sealing part.

4. The display panel according to claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of source wiring lines and/or gate wiring lines overlapping the hole-periphery sealing part.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 26, 2016
From: WATANABE, HISASHI; KANEHIRO, MASAYUKI; NAKANISHI, YOUHEI
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 037840/0103 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-183286 · Sep 4, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160202516A1 · Jul 14, 2016