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Granted Patent B2
US 12,399,536 · App. 18/488,774 · Granted Aug 26, 2025

Display device

Inventors: Juyoung Bang (Paju-si, KR); Jonghyun Park (Paju-si, KR)
Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
G06F1/1652G06F1/181H10K77/111
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Patent No.
US 12,399,536
App. No.
18/488,774
Granted
Aug 26, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a display device including: a flexible substrate including an active area and a bezel area disposed outside the active area, the active area including a module area in which multiple holes are provided; a back plate disposed on one surface of the flexible substrate, and being provided with an opening disposed in a manner that corresponds to the module area; a thin-film transistor and wire formation layer disposed on another surface of the flexible substrate, and including multiple light-transmitting areas disposed in a manner that corresponds to the opening; and a module received within the opening of the back plate, wherein the module receives light from outside through the multiple light-transmitting areas, the multiple holes, and the opening.

Claims (27)

1. A display device comprising:

a substrate including an active area and a bezel area, the active area including a first area where a plurality of sub-pixels are arranged and a second area where pixels and multiple light-transmitting areas are arranged;

a buffer layer on the substrate;

a thin-film transistor and wire formation layer on the buffer layer;

a light-emitting element layer corresponding to the plurality of sub-pixels;

a bank corresponding to the second area;

at least one power line on the bezel area, the at least one power line providing power to the plurality of sub-pixels and including a first power line and a second power line, and

wherein the first power line is formed as a bar in a direction parallel to one side of the bezel area,

wherein the first power line is a first lower power line and the second power line is a second lower power line; and

wherein the at least one power line further includes a first upper power line and a second upper power line, and

wherein the at least one power line includes a third power line disposed along an outermost edge of the bezel area.

2. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the first power line is on at least one of one side of the bezel area adjacent to a data integrated circuit (IC) and another side opposite to the one side.

3. The display device of claim 1 , further comprising:

a gate driver including shift registers disposed on opposite sides, respectively, outside the active area.

4. The display device of claim 3 , wherein each of the shift registers receive a start pulse and at least two shift clock signals.

5. The display device of claim 4 , wherein the gate driver further includes level shifters supplying the start pulse and the at least two shift clock signals to the shift registers, respectively.

6. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the substrate is a flexible substrate.

7. The display device of claim 6 , wherein the substrate includes a first flexible substrate, an insulation layer, and a second flexible substrate that are sequentially stacked.

8. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of sub-pixels includes red sub-pixels, green sub-pixels, and blue sub-pixels, and

wherein the red sub-pixels, the green sub-pixels, and the blue sub-pixels have different sizes.

9. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the light-emitting element layer includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and an organic emission layer interposed between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode, and

wherein a module area does not include the cathode electrode.

10. The display device of claim 1 , further comprising:

a polarizing film covering the active area.

11. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the second power line receives a first power from a power supply through the first power line.

12. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the first upper power line is in a side of the bezel area that is opposite to the one side of the bezel area where the first lower power line is formed.

13. The display device of claim 1 , wherein opposite ends portions of the first lower power line and the first upper power line are connected with each other via the second lower power line and the second upper power line.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 18, 2023
From: BANG, JUYOUNG; PARK, JONGHYUN
To: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 065263/0896 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2019-0163662 · Dec 10, 2019 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 18080397 · Dec 13, 2022
Continuation 17109818 · Dec 2, 2020
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