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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 9419065 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 01, 2013

Flexible displays

Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Brett W. Degner, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Chieh-Wei Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);

Dinesh C. Mathew, Fremont, CA (US);

Paul S. Drzaic, Morgan Hill, CA (US);

Sang Ha Kim, Dublin, CA (US);

Silvio Grespan, Shanghai, CN;

John Z. Zhong, Cupertino, CA (US);

Jean-Pierre Guillou, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kuo-Hua Sung, San Jose, CA (US);

Young Bae Park, San Jose, CA (US);

Vasudha Gupta, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:

Treyz Law Group, P.C.

Kendall P. Woodruff

Primary Examiner:

Cuong Q Nguyen

Assistant Examiner:

Nishath Yasmeen

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/82 (2006.01); H01L 27/32 (2006.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01); H05K 1/02 (2006.01); H05K 1/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/326 (2013.01); G02F 1/133305 (2013.01); H05K 1/028 (2013.01); G02F 2001/133388 (2013.01); H05K 1/189 (2013.01); H05K 2201/09036 (2013.01); H05K 2201/0979 (2013.01); H05K 2201/10128 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device may be provided with an organic light-emitting diode display with minimized border regions. The border regions may be minimized by providing the display with bent edge portions having neutral plane adjustment features that facilitate bending of the bent edge portions while minimizing damage to the bent edge portions. The neutral plane adjustment features may include a modified backfilm layer of the display in which portions of the backfilm layer are removed in a bend region. A display device may include a substrate, a display panel on the substrate having display pixels, and peripheral circuitry proximate the display panel and configured to drive the display pixels. A portion of the periphery of the substrate may be bent substantially orthogonal to the display panel to reduce an apparent surface area of the display device. The bent portion may include an electrode for communication with the peripheral circuitry.

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