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US 12,257,667 · App. 18/158,376 · Granted Mar 25, 2025

Method of manufacturing window and window for display device

Inventors: Cheolmin Park (Hwaseong-si, KR); Seungho Kim (Asan-si, KR); Hoikwan Lee (Suwon-si, KR); Byunghoon Kang (Hwaseong-si, KR); Seung Kim (Seongnam-si, KR); Changmoo Lee (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
B24B9/10B24B1/00B24B9/20B24B29/02B24B41/002B65G1/1373B65G43/00C03B33/07C03B33/076C03C23/002C03C27/04G05D1/0088B62D51/001
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Patent No.
US 12,257,667
App. No.
18/158,376
Granted
Mar 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of manufacturing a window may include cutting a window having a uniform thickness of about 20 μm to about 100 μm and polishing a cut surface of the window with a polishing pad having an elastic modulus less than an elastic modulus of the window while applying slurry to the cut surface of the window.

Claims (27)

1. A flexible display device, comprising:

a bendable glass window having a thickness within a range of 20 μm to 100 μm in a first direction, the glass window having a flat portion and an edge of the glass window having a curved cross-sectional shape,

wherein an image is displayed through the glass window, and

wherein the curved cross-sectional shape of the glass window has a radius of curvature at a location farthest from the flat portion that is less than a distance from the location farthest from the flat portion to the flat portion and angle with respect to a plane of the flat portion to a point on an imaginary circle of the radius of curvature is 10 degrees to 30 degrees.

2. The flexible display device of claim 1 , wherein the curved cross-sectional shape of the glass window is disposed on an entirety of the edge of the flat portion to substantially surround the flat portion.

3. The flexible display device of claim 1 , wherein the distance from the location farthest from the flat portion to the flat portion is in a range of about 10% to about 200% of the thickness of the flat portion.

4. The flexible display device of claim 1 , wherein a roughness of the outer surface of the chamfer portion is 0.5 nm to 10 nm.

5. The flexible display device of claim 1 , wherein the curved cross-sectional shape of the glass window has multiple different radiuses of curvature.

6. The flexible display device of claim 5 , wherein each of the multiple radiuses of curvature is in a range of from about 20% to about 200% of the thickness of the flat portion.

7. The flexible display device of claim 1 , wherein the flexible display device is bendable, foldable, or rollable.

8. A method of manufacturing a glass window for a display device, the method comprising:

stacking glass windows in a first direction, the glass windows each having a thickness within a range of about 20 μm to about 100 μm in the first direction; and

polishing edges of the glass windows in a mechanical manner,

wherein each of the glass windows has a flat portion and an edge having a curved cross-sectional shape having a radius of curvature at a location farthest from the flat portion that is less than a distance from the location farthest from the flat portion to the flat portion and an angle with respect to a plane of the flat portion to a point on an imaginary circle of the radius of curvature is 10 degrees to 30 degrees.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the polishing of the edges of the glass windows includes polishing the glass windows from the edges of the glass windows in a second direction crossing the first direction to reduce their lengths within a range of from about 10% to about 200% of the thickness of each of the glass windows.

10. A method of manufacturing a glass window for a display device, the method comprising:

stacking cut glass windows in a first direction, each of the glass windows having a size corresponding to a size of a display device; and

polishing cut surfaces of the glass windows,

wherein each of the glass windows has a flat portion and an edge having a curved cross-sectional shape having a radius of curvature at a location farthest from the flat portion that is less than a distance from the location farthest from the flat portion to the flat portion and an angle with respect to a plane of the flat portion to a point on an imaginary circle of the radius of curvature is 10 degrees to 30 degrees.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

forming a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer respectively on a first surface of a glass window that is one of the glass windows and a second surface of the glass window opposite to the first surface,

wherein the polishing of the cut surfaces of the glass windows includes polishing the first surface and the second surface of the glass window together with a cut surface of the glass window.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

cutting the glass windows before the stacking of the glass windows,

wherein the stacking of the glass windows includes stacking adhesive layers alternately with the glass windows in the first direction.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

separating the glass windows and the adhesive layers from each other by immersing the glass windows and the adhesive layers in a hot water after the polishing of the cut surfaces of the glass windows.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2021-0020676 · Feb 16, 2021 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 17487288 · Sep 28, 2021
Related Publication 20230161345A1 · May 25, 2023
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