Display apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9395569-B2
Application number	US-201514710071-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 12, 2015
Priority date	Feb 14, 2011
Publication date	Jul 19, 2016
Grant date	Jul 19, 2016

Abstract

Disclosed is a display apparatus in which liquid crystal is injected into a non-display area having a transmitting hole formed in a predetermined portion of a panel corresponding to a camera, wherein the display apparatus comprises a display unit having a panel which is provided with lower and upper substrates sealed under the circumstance that liquid crystal is filled therebetween; and a guide frame which supports the display unit, wherein the guide frame includes: a guide sidewall which guides a lateral side of the panel; and a panel supporter which supports the panel, wherein a camera receiving part with a camera mounted thereon is formed in a first panel support of the panel supporter, a transmitting hole for transmitting light to the camera is formed in a black matrix of a first non-display area to be placed on the first panel supporter of the upper substrate, and a display area of the panel and the first non-display area are filled with liquid crystal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A display apparatus comprising:
a display unit having a panel which is provided with lower and upper substrates sealed with liquid crystal filled therebetween; and
a guide frame, which supports the display unit,
wherein the guide frame includes:
a guide sidewall, which guides a lateral side of the panel; and
a panel supporter, which supports the panel,

wherein a camera receiving part with a camera mounted thereon is disposed in a first panel supporter of the panel supporter, a transmitting hole for transmitting light to the camera is disposed in a black matrix of a first non-display area to be placed on the first panel supporter of the upper substrate, a first seal is disposed between a display area of the panel and the first non-display area, and liquid crystal is filled only in the display area.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a second seal is disposed in the periphery of the first non-display area.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first panel supporter is formed in the shape of ‘∪’.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first panel supporter is formed in the shape of ‘∩’, and a camera hole corresponding to the transmitting hole is disposed in the first panel supporter.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein at least one column spacer is disposed in the periphery of the transmitting hole in the first non-display area.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the column spacer in the periphery of the transmitting hole is formed by the same process as those of column spacers in the display area of the upper substrate.

7. A display apparatus comprising:
a display unit having a panel which is provided with lower and upper substrates sealed with liquid crystal filled therebetween; and
a guide frame, which supports the display unit,

wherein a transmitting hole for transmitting light to a camera provided below the panel is disposed in a black matrix of a first non-display area of the upper substrate, and
the first non-display area is divided into a transmitting part for the transmitting hole formed therein, and a vacuum part corresponding to the remaining parts except the transmitting part, wherein the transmitting part is sealed by a first seal formed along the interface between a display area of the panel and the first non-display area while being isolated from the vacuum part, and the transmitting part is filled with a filling material,
wherein the first seal is curved toward a second seal direction for sealing the periphery of the non-display area to surround the transmitting part, the transmitting part is filled with the liquid crystal injected into the display area, and the transmitting part is sealed only by the first seal, and is isolated from the vacuum part.

8. A display apparatus comprising:
a display unit having a panel which is provided with lower and upper substrates sealed with liquid crystal filled therebetween; and
a guide frame, which supports the display unit,

wherein a transmitting hole for transmitting light to a camera provided below the panel is disposed in a black matrix of a first non-display area of the upper substrate, and
the first non-display area is divided into a transmitting part for the transmitting hole formed therein, and a vacuum part corresponding to the remaining parts except the transmitting part, wherein the transmitting part is sealed by a first seal formed along the interface between a display area of the panel and the first non-display area while being isolated from the vacuum part, and the transmitting part is filled with a filling material,
wherein the first seal is curved toward a second seal direction for sealing the periphery of the non-display area to surround the transmitting part, and is formed along the interface between the transmitting part and the display area, and the filling material is liquid crystal.

9. A display apparatus comprising:
a display unit having a panel which is provided with lower and upper substrates sealed with liquid crystal filled therebetween; and
a guide frame, which includes a guide sidewall and a panel supporter so as to support the display unit;

wherein a transmitting hole for transmitting light to a camera provided below the panel is disposed in a black matrix of a first non-display area of the upper substrate, a first seal is disposed along the interface between a display area of the panel and the first non-display area, and a transmitting-hole column spacer is disposed in the transmitting hole, wherein the transmitting-hole column spacer is formed together with a column spacer for maintaining a cell gap between the upper substrate and the lower substrate.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein a second seal is disposed in the periphery of the first non-display area.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein a camera receiving part with a camera mounted thereon is formed in a first panel supporter of the panel supporter, and the first non-display area is placed on the first panel supporter.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the first panel supporter is formed in the shape of ‘∪’.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the first panel supporter is formed in the shape of ‘∩’, and a camera hole corresponding to the transmitting hole is disposed in the first panel supporter.

14. A display apparatus comprising:
an upper substrate, which is provided with a black matrix in a first non-display area; and
a lower substrate, which includes a plurality of pixels in a display area, wherein the lower substrate is bonded to the upper substrate with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween,
wherein a transmitting hole for transmitting light to a camera provided below the lower substrate is disposed in the black matrix of the first non-display area, and a first seal is disposed along the interface between the first non-display area and the display area, wherein the first seal is curved toward a second seal direction in the periphery of the first non-display area so as to isolate a transmitting part with the transmitting hole from a vacuum part corresponding to the remaining parts of the first non-display area except the transmitting part, and the transmitting part is filled with a filling material.

15. The display apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein the transmitting hole penetrates through the display area, and the transmitting part is filled with the liquid crystal injected into the display area.

16. The display apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein the first seal is disposed along the interface between the transmitting part and the display area.

17. The display apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein the filling material is a solid, liquid, or gas material having a refractive index between about 1.3 to about 1.7.

Assignees

• Lg Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Dongyong
• Park Jaewoo
• Son Namdo
• Kim Sungwoo
• Park Jongsub
• Kim Kyungmi
• Yang Keyyoung
• Jean Ginam

Classifications

• G02F1/13394

  spacers regularly patterned on the cell subtrate, e.g. walls, pillars (G02F1/133377 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G02F2001/13332

  Physics · mapped topic

• G02F1/133615

  Edge-illuminating devices, i.e. illuminating from the side · CPC title

• G02F2001/133314

  Physics · mapped topic

• G02F2001/133317

  Physics · mapped topic