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US 12,340,139 · App. 18/432,639 · Granted Jun 24, 2025

Display panel and electronic device

Inventors: Yoshiharu Hirakata (Kanagawa, JP); Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
G06F3/1446G06F1/1652G06F3/0412G09G5/14H10K59/1213H10K59/131H10K59/40H10K77/111G02F1/133305G09G2300/02G09G2330/022G09G2380/02
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Patent No.
US 12,340,139
App. No.
18/432,639
Granted
Jun 24, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electronic device including a housing, a display panel with a flexible substrate, and a flexible printed circuit, in which the housing comprises a flat surface and a side surface comprising a curved region, the display panel comprises a first region that overlaps with the flat surface and a second region that overlaps with the side surface, the display panel comprises a convex portion that comprises a region overlapping with a flexible printed circuit, and the display panel comprises a display portion in the first region and the second region.

Claims (6)

1. A display panel comprising a substrate,

wherein the display panel comprises a first display region, a second display region, and a third display region,

wherein the first display region comprises a first side and a second side forming a first corner portion of the first display region,

wherein the second display region is in contact with the first side and a width of a direction parallel to the first side of the second display region has a same length as the first side,

wherein the third display region is in contact with the second side and a width of a direction parallel to the second side of the third display region has a same length as the second side, and

wherein the substrate comprises a notch portion in a region facing the first display region with the first corner portion therebetween.

Priority Claims (2)
JP 2013-236966 · Nov 15, 2013 · national
JP 2013-236969 · Nov 15, 2013 · national
Continuity (7)
Continuation 17690355 · Mar 9, 2022
Continuation 16894969 · Jun 8, 2020
Continuation 16197407 · Nov 21, 2018
Continuation 15478816 · Apr 4, 2017
Continuation 15228167 · Aug 4, 2016
Continuation 14537045 · Nov 10, 2014
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