Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Display device
- Patent Title (中): 显示设备
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Application No.: US14237681Application Date: 2012-09-11
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Publication No.: US09575240B2Publication Date: 2017-02-21
- Inventor: Nobuhiko Akanuma , Hiromi Enomoto , Yuhsuke Nii , Shinji Tomokawa
- Applicant: Nobuhiko Akanuma , Hiromi Enomoto , Yuhsuke Nii , Shinji Tomokawa
- Applicant Address: JP Sakai
- Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Sakai
- Agency: Keating & Bennett, LLP
- Priority: JP2011-202316 20110915
- International Application: PCT/JP2012/005746 WO 20120911
- International Announcement: WO2013/038654 WO 20130321
- Main IPC: H04M1/02
- IPC: H04M1/02 ; F21V8/00 ; G02F1/1333 ; G06F1/16

Abstract:
A display device includes a display panel, a display area, a non-display area, a substrate member attached to the display panel with an adhesive layer interposed therebetween and including a touch panel and an operation section formed in the non-display area and used for performing an input operation on the touch panel, a step portion formed at least by a side portion of the display panel and a side portion of the adhesive layer such that a void is generated in a part between the display panel and the substrate member, and a light source unit disposed in the void such that at least a part of the light source unit is superimposed on the display panel in the step portion and configured to supply illumination light to the operation section to light the operation section.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140192279A1 DISPLAY DEVICE Public/Granted day:2014-07-10
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