Foldable Display Polarizer Bonding Layout to Prevent Waviness

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display devices face issues with bending (waviness) in the bonding layer between the polarization and cover layers, leading to external visibility defects and reduced display quality.

Innovation Solution

The display apparatus incorporates a design where the bonding layer ends farther from the bending region than the polarization layer, with a covering layer spaced apart and protruding towards the bending region, and includes a first covering layer in contact with the polarization layer and a second covering layer outside the first, maintaining equal surface height.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If the bonding layer extends to the bending region, then the structural integrity is improved, but bending (waviness) occurs in the bonding layer causing external visibility defects

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural integrityVSAvoidbonding layer flatness
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the bonding layer from the bending region by defining its end position to be farther from the bending region than the polarization layer end. This separation removes the bonding layer from the area subject to bending stresses, preventing waviness and external visibility defects while maintaining structural integrity through the covering layer configuration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a vertical dimension solution by configuring the covering layer with a first covering layer having a surface height equal to the polarization layer surface height, and a second covering layer outside the first. This multi-level covering structure compensates for the bonding layer termination and maintains surface integrity without requiring the bonding layer to extend into the bending region.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Manufacturing precision

If the bonding layer ends farther from the bending region, then external visibility defects are reduced, but the covering structure complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveexternal visibility qualityVSAvoidcovering layer structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the covering layer into a first covering layer and a second covering layer with distinct functions and positions. The first covering layer contacts the polarization layer side surface and has a surface height equal to the polarization layer, while the second covering layer is located outside the first. This segmentation allows each layer to perform its specific function efficiently, managing complexity through functional division.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by giving different characteristics to different parts of the covering structure. The first covering layer has a specific surface height matching the polarization layer and contacts the side surface, while the second covering layer is positioned outside. This localized differentiation optimizes each region's performance without requiring uniform complexity throughout the entire structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20260033217A1Display apparatus
Publication Date: 2026.01.29 LG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

A display apparatus according to an embodiment may include a display panel; a main region, a sub-region, and a bending region between the main region and the sub-region; a polarization layer disposed in the main region; a cover layer on the polarization layer; a bonding layer between the polarization layer and the cover layer; and a covering layer disposed in the bending region. The bonding layer has an end that may be farther from the bending region than an end of the polarization layer. The covering layer may be spaced apart from the bonding layer.