Flexible Display Panel With Semi-Transmissive Mirror
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Solution Overview
Problem
The limitation of using glass substrates in display apparatuses, which restricts the development of flexible and full-screen displays due to their lack of flexibility, making it challenging to integrate additional devices like cameras and sensors without protrusions, thereby affecting design satisfaction and manufacturing complexity.
Innovation Solution
A display apparatus design that incorporates a flexible display panel with a semi-transmissive mirror, allowing the side area of the display panel to be arranged inside the main body, reflecting image light to the front area through the mirror, and positioning auxiliary devices like cameras and sensors inside the main body, thus creating a full-screen display without external protrusions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a glass substrate is used in the display apparatus, then the display performance and heat resistance are improved, but the flexibility and ability to integrate additional devices inside the main body deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the rigid glass substrate with a flexible plastic substrate, allowing the display apparatus to be bent and enabling the integration of additional devices inside the main body. The flexible display panel can be arranged in various configurations, including side areas that extend inside the main body to accommodate cameras, sensors, and other auxiliary devices without requiring external protrusions.
2Shape
If additional devices are arranged inside the main body, then the full-screen display design is improved, but the structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes the flexible nature of the plastic substrate to extend the display panel into the third dimension, with side areas that fold or extend inside the main body. This dimensional transformation allows auxiliary devices to be integrated within the display structure itself, achieving a full-screen appearance without external protrusions while managing complexity through spatial reorganization.
3Shape
If the side area of the display panel is arranged inside the main body, then the seamless display surface is improved, but the manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display panel is divided into a front area and side areas, with the side areas extending inside the main body to accommodate auxiliary devices. This segmentation allows the display to maintain a seamless front surface while integrating additional functionality internally. The flexible substrate enables this segmentation to be implemented without compromising the overall structural integrity or visual appearance.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This design enhances user satisfaction by providing a seamless display surface, simplifies the manufacturing process, and maintains display performance even when bent, as it utilizes a flexible material like plastic for the display panel.
Implementation Method 1
an image emitted from the display panel is reflected toward a front area through the semi-transmissive mirror
Data Source
AI summary
A display apparatus includes a display panel having a front area and a side area, a main body supporting the display panel, an auxiliary member arranged inside the main body, and a semi-transmissive mirror arranged between the auxiliary member and the front area, wherein the side area of the display panel may be arranged inside the main body to face the semi-transmissive mirror. Since an image partially emitted from the display panel may be reflected toward the front area, auxiliary members such as a camera, an illumination sensor, and a proximity sensor may be arranged inside the main body (or below a display) to embody a full screen display, whereby a user's satisfaction may be enhanced and a manufacturing process may be simplified.