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Granted Patent B2
US 11,088,222 · App. 16/902,811 · Granted Aug 10, 2021

Display device comprising a thin glass material layer

Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo, JP); Yoshiharu Hirakata (Kanagawa, JP); Kensuke Yoshizumi (Kanagawa, JP)
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Patent No.
US 11,088,222
App. No.
16/902,811
Granted
Aug 10, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

The thickness of a display device including a touch sensor is reduced. Alternatively, the thickness of a display device having high display quality is reduced. Alternatively, a method for manufacturing a display device with high mass productivity is provided. Alternatively, a display device having high reliability is provided. Stacked substrates in each of which a sufficiently thin substrate and a relatively thick support substrate are stacked are used as substrates. One surface of the thin substrate of one of the stacked substrates is provided with a layer including a touch sensor, and one surface of the thin substrate of the other stacked substrate is provided with a layer including a display element. After the two stacked substrates are attached to each other so that the touch sensor and the display element face each other, the support substrate and the thin substrate of each stacked substrate are separated from each other.

Claims (72)

1. A display device comprising:

a light-emitting layer;

a sensor layer over the light-emitting layer without a glass substrate provided therebetween; and

a layer comprising a glass material over the sensor layer,

wherein a thickness of the layer comprising the glass material is greater than or equal to 10 μm and less than or equal to 200 μm.

2. A display device comprising:

a light-emitting layer;

a sensor layer over the light-emitting layer; and

a layer comprising a glass material over the sensor layer,

wherein a thickness of the layer comprising the glass material is greater than or equal to 10 μm and less than or equal to 200 μm, and

wherein a display portion comprising the light-emitting layer is flexible or bendable.

3. A flexible display device comprising:

a light-emitting layer;

a sensor layer over the light-emitting layer without a glass substrate provided therebetween; and

a layer comprising a glass material or an organic resin material over the sensor layer,

wherein a thickness of the layer comprising the glass material or the organic resin material is greater than or equal to 10 μm and less than or equal to 200 μm.

4. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the layer comprising the glass material is a substrate.

5. The display device according to claim 2 , wherein the layer comprising the glass material is a substrate.

6. The flexible display device according to claim 3 , wherein the layer comprising the glass material is a substrate.

7. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising a light-emitting element, the light-emitting element comprising:

a first electrode;

the light-emitting layer over the first electrode; and

a second electrode over the light-emitting layer.

8. The display device according to claim 2 , further comprising a light-emitting element, the light-emitting element comprising:

a first electrode;

the light-emitting layer over the first electrode; and

a second electrode over the light-emitting layer.

9. The flexible display device according to claim 3 , further comprising a light-emitting element, the light-emitting element comprising:

a first electrode;

the light-emitting layer over the first electrode; and

a second electrode over the light-emitting layer.

10. The display device according to claim 7 , further comprising:

a first insulating layer over the first electrode and under the light-emitting layer;

a spacer over the first insulating layer and under the light-emitting layer;

a first layer over the second electrode, the first layer including an organic material;

a second layer over the first layer, the second layer including an inorganic material;

a first sensor electrode of a touch sensor over the second layer; and

a second sensor electrode of the touch sensor over the first sensor electrode.

11. The display device according to claim 8 , further comprising:

a first insulating layer over the first electrode and under the light-emitting layer;

a spacer over the first insulating layer and under the light-emitting layer;

a first layer over the second electrode, the first layer including an organic material;

a second layer over the first layer, the second layer including an inorganic material;

a first sensor electrode of a touch sensor over the second layer; and

a second sensor electrode of the touch sensor over the first sensor electrode.

12. The flexible display device according to claim 9 , further comprising:

a first insulating layer over the first electrode and under the light-emitting layer;

a spacer over the first insulating layer and under the light-emitting layer;

a first layer over the second electrode, the first layer including an organic material;

a second layer over the first layer, the second layer including an inorganic material;

a first sensor electrode of a touch sensor over the second layer; and

a second sensor electrode of the touch sensor over the first sensor electrode.

13. The display device according to claim 10 ,

wherein the first layer is a black matrix layer, and

wherein the second layer is an insulating layer.

14. The display device according to claim 11 ,

wherein the first layer is a black matrix layer, and

wherein the second layer is an insulating layer.

15. The flexible display device according to claim 12 ,

wherein the first layer is a black matrix layer, and

wherein the second layer is an insulating layer.

16. The display device according to claim 2 , wherein a substrate comprising a glass material is not provided between the sensor layer and the light-emitting layer.

17. The display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sensor layer is provided closer to a display surface side than the light-emitting layer, and

wherein the layer comprising the glass material is provided closer to the display surface side than the sensor layer.

18. The display device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the sensor layer is provided closer to a display surface side than the light-emitting layer, and

wherein the layer comprising the glass material is provided closer to the display surface side than the sensor layer.

19. The flexible display device according to claim 3 ,

wherein the sensor layer is provided closer to a display surface side than the light-emitting layer,

wherein the layer comprising the glass material is provided closer to the display surface side than the sensor layer, and

wherein the display surface is flexible.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-156357 · Jul 12, 2012 · national
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