Rollable display apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9710020-B2
Application number	US-201414463239-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 19, 2014
Priority date	Feb 12, 2014
Publication date	Jul 18, 2017
Grant date	Jul 18, 2017

Abstract

A rollable display apparatus includes a flexible display panel and a housing. The flexible display panel includes a display region which displays an image and a dummy region which does not display an image. The dummy region is connected to a side of the display region, and the dummy region and the display region are disposed in one direction. The flexible display panel is rollable around an outside surface of the housing. The dummy region includes a first dummy portion fixed in the housing and a second dummy portion connected to the first dummy portion. The second dummy portion is wrapped around the housing.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A reliable display apparatus comprising: a flexible display panel including a display region which displays an image and a dummy region which does not display an image; and a housing having an outside surface around which the flexible display panel is rollable, wherein the dummy region comprises: a first dummy portion fixed in the housing, and a second dummy portion connected to the first dummy portion and wrapped around the housing, wherein the housing has a cylindrical shape and the first dummy portion terminates at a center of the cylindrical housing, and the housing comprises: a main housing having a cross section that has a circular sector shape having a central angel that is greater than 180°; and a sub-housing that has a circular sector shape having a central angel that is less than 180°, wherein the first dummy portion is affixed to an inside surface of the main housing.

2. The reliable display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein, the sub-housing is combined with the main housing in such a way that the sub-housing makes contact with the main housing at a first and second radius of the housing, and the first dummy portion is disposed between the sub-housing- and the main housing along the first radius while the sub-housing directly contacts, the main housing-along the second radius.

3. The reliable display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second dummy portion is wrapped around the housing at least once.

4. The rollable display apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the second dummy portion has a length in the one direction, and wherein the length of the second dummy portion is equal to or greater than a circumference of the housing.

5. A rollable display apparatus comprising:
a flexible display panel including a display region which displays an image and a dummy region which does not display an image, the dummy region connected to a side of the display region, and the display region and the dummy region disposed in one direction; and
a housing having an outside surface around which the flexible display panel is rollable, wherein the dummy region comprises: a first dummy portion fixed in the housing, and a second dummy portion connected to the first dummy portion and wrapped around the housing,
wherein the flexible display panel comprises:
an insulating substrate, an image display part disposed on the insulating substrate, the image display part configured to emit light or control incident light, a polarization film opposite to the insulating substrate with the image display part therebetween, and a passivation film opposite to the image display part with the insulating substrate therebetween.

6. The rollable display apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the insulating substrate comprises: a display insulating substrate overlapping with the display region, and a dummy insulating substrate overlapping with the dummy region.

7. The rollable display apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the polarization film and the passivation film overlap with the display region but do not overlap with the dummy region.

8. The rollable display apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the polarization film comprises: a display polarization film overlapping with the display region, and a dummy polarization film overlapping with the dummy region.

9. The rollable display apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the insulating substrate and the passivation film overlap with the display region but do not overlap with the dummy region.

10. The rollable display apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the passivation film comprises: a display passivation film overlapping with the display region, and a dummy passivation film overlapping with the dummy region.

11. The rollable display apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the insulating substrate and the polarization film overlap with the display region but do not overlap with the dummy region.

12. The rollable display apparatus of claim 5 , further comprising: a dummy film overlapping with the dummy region.

13. The rollable display apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the insulating substrate, the polarization film, and the passivation film overlap with the display region but do not overlap with the dummy region.

14. The rollable display apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the dummy film comprises: a first dummy film adhered to an end portion of a top surface of the polarization film adjacent to the dummy region, and a second dummy film adhered to an end portion of a bottom surface of the passivation film adjacent to the dummy region.

15. The rollable display apparatus of claim 14 , wherein portions of the first and second dummy films, which overlap with the dummy region, are adhered to each other.

16. The rollable display apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the dummy film includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a polyester, a polystyrene, a polycarbonate, a polyether sulfone, a polyarylate, a polyimide, a polycycloolefin, a norbornen resin, and a poly(chlorotrifluoroethylene).

17. The rollable display apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the polyester is selected from the group consisting of a polyethylene terephthalate, a polybutylene phthalate, and a polyethylene naphthalate.

18. The rollable display apparatus of claim 15 , further comprising an adhesive disposed between the first dummy film and the polarization film, between the second dummy film and the passivation film, and between the portions of the first and second dummy films adhered to each other and overlapping with the dummy region.

19. A rollable display apparatus comprising:
a flexible display panel including:
a display region which displays an image and a dummy region which does not display an image, the dummy region connected to a side of the display region, and wherein the display region and the dummy region are disposed adjacent to each other in one direction parallel to a long side of the flexible display panel,
an insulating substrate which includes a transparent material and is flexible,
an image display part disposed on the insulating substrate, the image display part is configured to emit light or control incident light,
a polarization film which is transparent and flexible and disposed opposite to the insulating substrate with the image display part therebetween, and
a passivation film opposite to the image display part with the insulating substrate therebetween,
wherein one of the insulating substrate, the polarization film, or the passivation film has a first width in the one direction, in which the first width is equal to a sum of a width in the one direction of the display region and a width in the one direction of the dummy region, and
wherein the other two of the insulating substrate, the polarization film, or the passivation film have a second width in the one direction, in which the second width is equal to the width in the one direction of the display region; and
a housing having an outside surface around which the flexible display panel is rollable, wherein the dummy region comprises:
a first dummy portion fixed in the housing, and a second dummy portion connected to the first dummy portion and wrapped around the housing at least once, and wherein the display region is in contact with the second dummy portion but the display region is not in contact with the outside surface of the housing.

20. The rollable display apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the image display part has one of the first width in the one direction or the second width in the one direction.

21. The rollable display apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Choi Kyungmin
• Koo Hyunwoo
• Kim Taewoong

Classifications

• G06F1/1652 Primary

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

• G09F9/301 Primary

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