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Granted Patent B2
US 12,272,271 · App. 18/515,655 · Granted Apr 8, 2025

Display panel and data processing device

Inventors: Shingo Eguchi (Kanagawa, JP); Taiki Nonaka (Kanagawa, JP); Daiki Nakamura (Kanagawa, JP); Nozomu Sugisawa (Kanagawa, JP); Kazuhiko Fujita (Kanagawa, JP); Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
G09F9/30G06F1/1607H05K5/0017H05K5/0226H10K59/12H10K77/111
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Patent No.
US 12,272,271
App. No.
18/515,655
Granted
Apr 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A novel display panel that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The display panel includes a display region, a first support, and a second support, the display region includes a first region, a second region, and a third region, the first region and the second region each have a belt-like shape extending in one direction, and the third region is sandwiched between the first region and the second region. The first support overlaps with the first region and is less likely to be warped than the third region, and the second support overlaps with the second region and is less likely to be warped than the third region. The second support can pivot on an axis extending in the one direction with respect to the first support.

Claims (24)

1. A hinge comprising:

a first link comprising a first joint-pin;

a second link comprising a second joint-pin; and

a first hook comprising a plurality of holding positions comprising a first holding position and a second holding position,

wherein the first hook is configured:

to be fixed to the first link with the first joint-pin so as to allow the first hook to rotate; and

to be connected to the second link by fixing the second joint-pin at any one of the plurality of holding positions,

wherein the first holding position is a drop portion provided on an outer edge of the first hook, and

wherein the second holding position is an inflection point with an obtuse angle provided on the outer edge of the first hook.

2. The hinge according to claim 1 , further comprising a second hook,

wherein the second hook comprises a plurality of holding positions comprising a third holding position and a fourth holding position, and

wherein the second hook is configured to be fixed to the second link with the second joint-pin so as to allow the second hook to rotate.

3. The hinge according to claim 1 , wherein the hinge has at least two fix angles as an opening angle by fixing the first joint-pin at the first holding position and the second holding position.

4. The hinge according to claim 1 , wherein the first link has a shape same as the second link.

5. An electronic device comprising:

a first support;

a second support;

a hinge according to claim 1 ; and

a display panel over the first support, the second support and the hinge,

wherein the first support and the second support are connected with the hinge.

6. The electronic device according to claim 5 , wherein the display panel comprises a flexible substrate.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6 , wherein the flexible substrate comprises a resin.

8. The electronic device according to claim 6 , wherein the flexible substrate is a glass substrate.

9. The electronic device according to claim 5 , wherein the electronic device is a data processing device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 21, 2023
From: EGUCHI, SHINGO; NONAKA, TAIKI; NAKAMURA, DAIKI; SUGISAWA, NOZOMU; FUJITA, KAZUHIKO; YAMAZAKI, SHUNPEI
To: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (4)
JP 2018-234268 · Dec 14, 2018 · national
JP 2019-014967 · Jan 31, 2019 · national
JP 2019-048353 · Mar 15, 2019 · national
JP 2019-080228 · Apr 19, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 17312487
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