Display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025028362-A1
Application number	US-202418601189-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 11, 2024
Priority date	Jul 19, 2023
Publication date	Jan 23, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

A display device includes a first roller in which a cavity extending in a first direction is defined and including an end surface and an opposite end surface facing each other at an incision extending in the first direction, a step adjustment part that is disposed in the cavity and that adjusts a step between the end surface and the opposite end surface by a rotary motion, and a display module connected to the first roller and wound around an outer circumferential surface of the first roller.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A display device comprising:
a first roller in which a cavity extending in a first direction is defined, the first roller including:
an end surface; and
an opposite end surface facing the end surface at an incision extending in the first direction;
a step adjustment part which is disposed in the cavity and adjusts a step between the end surface and the opposite end surface by a rotary motion; and a display module connected to the first roller and wound around an outer circumferential surface of the first roller.

2 . The display device of claim 1 , wherein the step adjustment part includes a second roller including a step portion by which the step between the end surface and the opposite end surface is provided, and
wherein an upper end of the end surface protrudes outward beyond an upper end of the opposite end surface by the step portion.

3 . The display device of claim 2 , wherein a side of the display module faces a partial surface of the end surface disposed above the opposite end surface.

4 . The display device of claim 2 , wherein a difference between a distance between the upper end of the end surface and the upper end of the opposite end surface and a thickness of the display module is 5% or less of the distance.

5 . The display device of claim 2 , wherein an outer circumferential surface of the second roller includes:
a first circular arc defined as a curve from 0 degree to a reference angle with respect to a rotational axis, the first circular arc having a radius which is variable with respect to the rotational axis; and a second circular arc defined as a curve from the reference angle to 360 degrees with respect to the rotational axis, the second circular arc having a radius which is constant or variable with respect to the rotational axis.

6 . The display device of claim 5 , wherein the radius of the first circular arc with respect to the rotational axis is gradually increased from a first radius to a second radius greater than the first radius with an approach to the reference angle from 0 degree, and
wherein the second circular arc has the second radius with respect to the rotational axis from the reference angle to 360 degrees.

7 . The display device of claim 6 , wherein the second radius has a value obtained by adding the first radius and a distance between a point of the first circular arc corresponding to 0 degree and a point of the second circular arc corresponding to 360 degrees.

8 . The display device of claim 6 , wherein an inner circumferential surface of the first roller defining the cavity has the first radius with respect to the rotational axis when the upper end of the end surface and the upper end of the opposite end surface overlap each other.

9 . The display device of claim 5 , wherein the reference angle is set to one of angles greater than 90 degrees and less than 360 degrees.

10 . The display device of claim 5 , wherein a first point of the first circular arc corresponding to 0 degree and a second point of the second circular arc corresponding to 360 degrees are spaced apart from each other, the second point is disposed outward of the first point, and a first distance between the first point and the second point defines a height difference of the step portion.

11 . The display device of claim 10 , wherein a tangent line at the first point and a tangent line at the second point are parallel to each other.

12 . The display device of claim 10 , wherein the first distance is equal to a second distance between the upper end of the end surface and the upper end of the opposite end surface when the second point overlaps a boundary between the end surface and the opposite end surface.

13 . The display device of claim 10 , wherein the first distance is greater than a second distance between the upper end of the end surface and the upper end of the opposite end surface when the second point is spaced apart from the end surface and disposed on an inner circumferential surface of the first roller.

14 . The display device of claim 13 , wherein the second distance is gradually decreased as the second point moves away from the end surface.

15 . The display device of claim 13 , wherein the second distance corresponds to a value obtained by subtracting a fourth distance between the rotational axis and a third point of the first circular arc overlapping a lower end of the opposite end surface from a third distance between the rotational axis and a lower end of the end surface.

16 . The display device of claim 5 , wherein a first point of the first circular arc corresponding to 0 degree and a second point of the second circular arc corresponding to 360 degrees are defined, and the second point is spaced apart from the end surface and disposed on an inner circumferential surface of the first roller,
wherein an inner circumferential surface of the first roller disposed from a lower end of the end surface to an inner point of the inner circumferential surface of the first roller overlapping the second point is defined as a sub-curved surface, and the sub-curved surface has a first radius with respect to a sub-center point, wherein the sub-center point is spaced apart from the rotational axis and disposed on a radius line connecting the rotational axis and the first point, and a distance between the sub-center point and the rotational axis is equal to a first distance between the first point and the second point, and wherein an angle defined by the inner point and the lower end of the end surface with respect to the rotational axis is defined as a first angle, and an inner distance between the rotational axis and the lower end of the end surface with respect to the first angle is determined by Equation below:

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Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Sangjun
• Kim Beomjin
• Ahn Jaeho
• Jang Cheol

Classifications

• H10K77/10

  Substrates, e.g. flexible substrates · CPC title

• G09F9/301 Primary

  flexible foldable or roll-able electronic displays, e.g. thin LCD, OLED · CPC title

• H10K2102/311

  Flexible OLED · CPC title

• G06F1/1652 Primary

  the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable · CPC title

• G02F1/133305

  Flexible substrates, e.g. plastics, organic film · CPC title