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Noriko Watanabe

Shigeaki Mizushima

Mitsuaki Hirata

Hiroko Iwagoe

Seiji Makino

Hiroshi Hamada

Akihiro Nammatsu

Kei Oyobe

Shinsuke Saida

Fumiaki Funada

Kazuyuki Aburazaki

Tomoko Okamura

Takashi Sato

Yukihiro Sumida

Shingo Jogan

Hidenori Kihara

Yasumori Fukushima

Takeshi Yaneda

Hiroaki Kato

Toshiaki Takamatsu

Yoshito Hashimoto

Nobuo Bessho

Hajime Shoji

Yusuke Tsuda

Toshihiko Hirobe

Toshio Takemoto

Masao Yoshikawa

Shinichi Ogawa

Sigeo Kawamura

Motohiro Yamahara

Hiroshi Nakanishi

Tokuo Yoshida

Kenji Misono

Kenshi Tada

Yasuhiro Nasu

Koji Taniguchi

Takuto Yasumatsu

Masaki Fujihara

Hisataka Suzuki

Tatsuo Shimasaki

Tuneo Nakamura

Kazuhiro Shibata

Akiko Itoh

Junichi Shimaoka

A display device includes a display region, a frame region, and a curved portion. The display device includes a resin layer, a plurality of inorganic insulating films, and a metal layer. A metal pattern formed with the metal layer is formed between an edge portion of the curved portion and the display region in the frame region along a curved shape of the edge portion of the curved portion and along at least a portion of corresponding two sides of the display device. The metal pattern is electrically disconnected from a wiring line of the display region, and a width of the metal pattern decreases toward both end portions.

Display device with a curved portion for improved realiability

A rollable display device includes a flexible display panel, a storage unit provided at one end side of the flexible display panel, a support bar provided at the other end side of the flexible display panel, a plurality of glass substrates aligned side by side in a direction intersecting a winding direction of the flexible display panel, and a cover layer formed to cover the glass substrates.

Rollable display device

A flexible display device includes a first display region, a second display region, a curved portion, a first high power supply voltage trunk wiring line, and a second high power supply voltage trunk wiring line. A plurality of first high power supply voltage lines branch from the first high power supply voltage trunk wiring line and extend to the first display region, a plurality of second high power supply voltage lines branch from the second high power supply voltage trunk wiring line and extend to the second display region, and the first high power supply voltage trunk wiring line and the second high power supply voltage trunk wiring line are electrically connected to each other via a first curved portion conductive layer formed in the curved portion.

Display device

A display device includes a metal pattern formed, in a frame region between a variant edge portion of the display device forming a cutout portion, and a display region. The metal pattern is formed from a metal layer conforming to at least a portion of the shape of the cutout portion.

Display device and method for manufacturing display device

A display device includes a first display region, a second display region, a curved portion provided between the first display region and the second display region, a plurality of first control lines provided in the first display region and extending in a first direction in which the first display region and the second display region are arranged side by side, and a plurality of second control lines provided in the second display region and extending in the first direction. The first control lines and the second control lines are electrically connected via curved portion wiring lines formed in the curved portion.

An elastic support substrate elastically deforms in at least a longitudinal direction that is a winding direction, and as for the longitudinal direction and the lateral direction that is a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, the elastic support substrate is less likely to deform in the longitudinal direction.

Elastic support substrate for flexible display, flexible display, and flexible display layered body

An electronic device includes: a flexible substrate, a device portion supported on the flexible substrate, and a driver circuit portion; and a flexible tube having a water vapor transmission rate of less than 10g/(m&#xb7;24 h) and an oxygen transmission rate of less than 10ml/(m&#xb7;24 h&#xb7;MPa), wherein: the flexible tube forms a first seal structure and a second seal structure at both ends thereof, and has a sealed space therein; a part of the flexible substrate and the device portion are inside the sealed space; and a rest of the flexible substrate, other than the part, is outside the sealed space.

Electronic device

A display deviceincludes a flexible display panel having a display surfaceand flexibility, display support portionssupporting the flexible display panel from a side opposite to the display surfaceside, a hinge portionsupporting the two adjacent display support portionsto be rotatable, and an angle restricting portionmounted on each of hinge partsand including at least a stopper projectionand a stopper holethat are stopped by each other when an angle formed by the two adjacent display supporting portionsreaches a predetermined value, the two adjacent display supporting portionsbeing rotated according to bending of the flexible display panelfrom the flat state and the angle being formed by the two adjacent display supporting portionsthat are rotated, and the angle restricting portionrestricting the angle.

Flexible display device with stoppable hinge

On a resin substrate () there are laminated, in the stated order, a conductive layer in which a bridge electrode () and leads are formed, a first interlayer insulating layer (), and an electrode layer that allows through visible light forming a unit electrode (XU) of a drive electrode line (X) and a unit electrode (YU) of a sensing electrode line (Y). It is accordingly possible to realize a touch panel substrate () capable of minimizing any increases in thickness, decreases in transmittance, complexity of terminal portions, and deterioration in optical characteristics.

Touch-panel substrate

A display device () includes a display panel () which has a display region (D) for image display and a non-display region (N) surrounding the display region (D), and has flexibility, wherein a reinforcing member () is bonded to in the non-display region (N) of the display panel () such that the display region (D) is exposed.

A display device includes a plurality of spacer rows that are provided outside a display region on one of a pair of substrates, and each of the spacer rows is defined by a plurality of spacers arranged in a row at predetermined intervals along an outer edge of the display region. Each spacer has a substantially elongated shape extending along the outer edge of the display region. A gap between adjacent spacers in each spacer row is defined by a slit portion having a shorter length than a longitudinal length of the spacer, and the plurality of spacer rows are entirely covered by the seal member between the pair of substrates.

Display comprising a plurality of spacer rows having first and second protruding portions and method of manufacturing the same

A plurality of liquid crystal cells are formed by encapsulating pieces of liquid crystal material with in a plurality of first sealing members, respectively, between a pair of flexible substrate base materials. Only respective parts of the pair of substrate base materials are contained inside a vacuum container, and the liquid crystal cells are formed inside the vacuum container reduced in pressure.

Method and apparatus for fabricating liquid crystal display device and substrate base material for liquid crystal display device

A plastic substrate according to the present invention is used in optical instruments. The plastic substrate includes a composite substratein which fibersare embedded in a resin matrix. The fibers are arranged in at least one predetermined direction within a plane of the composite substrate. The composite substrate substantially transmits visible radiation and has a predefined retardation that is associated with the predetermined direction in which the fibers are arranged.

Plastic substrate and liquid crystal display device having same

A liquid crystal display device includes a first flexible substrate and a second flexible substrate, a liquid crystal layer sealed between the first substrate and the second substrate by a frame-shaped sealing member, a display area located inside the sealing member, a non-display area located outside the display area and a plurality of spacers interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. A relief area in which a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate is larger than that in the display area is provided in at least a portion of the non-display area.

Liquid crystal display device including a relief area

A display device is provided with a sealing member for sealing a liquid crystal layer between a flexible first substrate and a second substrate, a mounting region provided in a portion of the first substrate outside a display area in which the liquid crystal layer is sealed, the mounting region mounting a circuit component on at least a portion thereof, wherein the second substrate includes an extending region extending to face the mounting region and an adhesive arranged to bond the extending region and the mounting region is provided in at least a portion of a space between the extending region and the mounting region.

Display device including substrates bonded together through an adhesive

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Noriko Watanabe