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Granted Patent B2
US 11,307,448 · App. 17/057,963 · Granted Apr 19, 2022

Mobile terminal

Inventors: Yanghwan Kim (Seoul, KR); Ilkyoung Cho (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
G02F1/133512G02F1/133331G03B30/00H01L27/326H01L27/3234H01L27/3272H04N5/2254H04M1/0264H04M1/0266
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Patent No.
US 11,307,448
App. No.
17/057,963
Granted
Apr 19, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

In order to resolve a problem in which, when an electronic component is provided in a hole provided in a display, the light of the display enters the hole or, oppositely, light having entered the hole enters the display, provided is a mobile terminal comprising: a cover glass; a display panel provided on the rear surface of the cover glass so as to have a plurality of layers; a cut-out region formed on at least one of the plurality of layers; a side optical shield film provided on the side surface of the at least one layer exposed to the outside by the cut-out region; and a front optical shield film provided to one region adjacent to the cut-out region of the cover glass.

Claims (23)

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a cover glass;

a display panel disposed on a rear surface of the cover glass to form a plurality of layers;

a cut-out region defined in at least one of the plurality of layers;

a side surface optical shielding film disposed on a side surface of the at least one layer exposed to the outside by the cut-out region; and

a front surface optical shielding film disposed in a region adjacent to the cut-out region of the cover glass.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the display panel is a liquid crystal display (LCD) including a liquid crystal layer,

wherein the cut-out region is defined in all of the plurality of layers except for the liquid crystal layer,

wherein the mobile terminal further includes an auxiliary optical shielding film disposed in a region adjacent to the cut-out region of the liquid crystal layer.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , further comprising:

an optical sensor disposed inside the cut-out region or at the rear of the cut-out region.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3 , wherein the optical sensor includes a camera sensor,

wherein the camera sensor includes:

a lens barrel; and

an image sensor,

wherein the lens barrel is disposed inside the cut-out region, and the image sensor is located at the rear of the cut-out region.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4 , wherein a backlight unit layer is disposed at a rearmost portion of the display panel,

wherein the image sensor is joined to a region adjacent to the cut-out region of a rear surface of the backlight unit layer.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 3 , wherein the display panel includes organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs),

wherein a rearmost layer of the display panel is a cushion tape layer,

wherein the cushion tape layer is formed wider than the cut-out region to form a seating region of the optical sensor.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the cut-out region forms a step having a cross-section area increasing forwardly.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7 , wherein the side surface optical shielding film contains black ink, and is applied to the side surface in a spraying scheme.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 23, 2020
From: KIM, YANGHWAN; CHO, ILKYOUNG
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 054448/0146 →
Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2018-0066574 · Jun 11, 2018 · national
KR 10-2018-0117403 · Oct 2, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20210200020A1 · Jul 1, 2021