Touch Key Window Structure for Bezel Light Leakage Blocking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Display devices with touch keys experience light leakage due to the placement of the touch key light source, which affects the bezel area and overall light transmission.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a display device design that includes a window base with a light transmission portion and a light blocking portion, featuring a light blocking layer with a touch key pattern, a printed circuit board, and strategically positioned first and second light blocking members made of black adhesive tape, which are angled and thickness-adjusted to minimize light leakage by blocking light between the touch key light source and the window edges.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the touch key light source is disposed on one side of the window, then the touch key function is enabled, but light leakage occurs in the bezel area

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetouch key functionVSAvoidlight leakage
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces light blocking members as intermediary elements between the touch key light source and the window bezel area. These members act as mediators that selectively block light in specific directions while allowing the touch key function to operate normally, thus resolving the contradiction between enabling the touch key and preventing light leakage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies light blocking members with specific properties (black adhesive tape with particular thickness and optical characteristics) at specific locations (between the light source and the bezel area). This local application of specialized materials blocks light leakage in the problematic bezel area while maintaining light transmission where needed for the touch key icon visibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Object-generated harmful factors

If light blocking members are added to prevent light leakage, then light leakage is reduced, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelight leakageVSAvoidstructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-generated harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs black adhesive tape as the light blocking member, which is a simple, inexpensive, and easily replaceable material. This approach prevents light leakage using a low-cost solution that does not add significant complexity to the device structure, as adhesive tape is a standard component that simplifies assembly and potential replacement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses thin film-based light blocking members (adhesive tape) that can be easily integrated into the existing device structure. These thin films conform to the required geometry and can be applied without modifying the fundamental structure of the window or light source assembly, thus preventing light leakage while minimizing increases in device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

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 effectively reduces light leakage from the touch key light source, enhancing the display device's light transmission and reducing the visibility of the light emitted through the bezel area, thereby improving the user's viewing experience.

Implementation Method 1

a light blocking layer disposed on the light blocking portion of the window base... a first light blocking member disposed on the printed circuit board and the touch key light source... a second light blocking member disposed between the second distal end of the first light blocking member and the light blocking layer

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight blocking: Absorption (EM radiation)

Data Source

PatentUS10754384B2Display device
Publication Date: 2020.08.25 SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

A display device may include: a window disposed on the display panel, including: a window base including a light transmission portion and a light blocking portion; a light blocking layer disposed on the light blocking portion of the window base, the light blocking layer including a touch key pattern portion; a printed circuit board disposed on the light blocking layer; a touch key light source disposed on the printed circuit board; a first light blocking member disposed on the printed circuit board and the touch key light source, including: a first distal end between the touch key light source and the light transmission portion of the window base; and a second distal end between the touch key light source and an edge of the window base; and a second light blocking member disposed between the second distal end of the first light blocking member and the light blocking layer.