DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD

• US 20140168090A1
• Filed: 12/13/2012
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Aaltonen, Antero Heikki Hemminki, Ikonen, Jorma Mikael
• Granted Patent: US 9,304,538 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133308 Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1601 Constructional details related to the housing of computer displays, e.g. of CRT monitors, of flat displays constructional details related to flat displays integrated in a portable computer, e.g. laptop, handheld computer G06F1/1637; constructional details related to television receivers H04N5/64
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1634 Integrated protective display lid, e.g. for touch-sensitive display in handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/84 Passivation; Containers; Encapsulations
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/10 Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/239 Complete cover or casing

Abstract

An apparatus and a method are provided. The apparatus comprises: a display panel; a film extending across the display panel and beyond a periphery of the display panel; and a curved support configured to support the film outside the periphery of the display panel.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a display panel;

a film extending across the display panel and beyond a periphery of the display panel; and

a curved support configured to support the film outside the periphery of the display panel.

2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the curved support comprises a first portion that is configured to support the display panel, and a second, curved, portion that is configured to support the film outside the periphery of the display panel.

3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the film is attached to the second, curved, portion of the curved support.

4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the film is attached to the second, curved, portion of the curved support by an adhesive.

5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein at least a portion of the display panel is substantially flat, and is supported by a substantially flat region of the first portion of the curved support.

6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein at least a portion of the display panel is curved, and is supported by a curved region of the first portion of the curved support.

7. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1.

8. An apparatus as claimed in claim 6, further comprising a display window, wherein a portion of the display window is curved.

9. An apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the portion of the display window has substantially the same curvature as a portion of the film.

10. An apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein an underside of the display window is laminated with the film.

11. An apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the portion of the display window has substantially the same curvature as a portion of the display panel.

12. An apparatus as claimed claim 1, wherein the film is configured to sense touch.

13. An apparatus as claimed in claim 12, further comprising an external housing, wherein a portion of the film that extends beyond the periphery of the display panel is configured to detect touch on the external housing.

14. An apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein a portion of an inner surface of the external housing has substantially the same curvature as the portion of the film that extends beyond a periphery of the display panel and is configured to detect touch on the external housing.

15. An apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein the external housing has a length, a width and a depth, and the portion of the film is configured to detect touch on at least one of:

a portion of a surface defined by the depth and the length, and a portion of a surface defined by the depth and the width.

16. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the film is a polarizer.

17. A method, comprising:

causing a film to extend across a display panel and beyond a periphery of the display panel; and

providing a curved support to support the film outside the periphery of the display panel.

18. A method as claimed in claim 17, further comprising:

laminating a display window with the film prior to causing the film to extend across the display panel and beyond a periphery of the display panel.

19. A method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the curved support comprises a first portion that supports the display panel, and a second, curved, portion that supports the film outside the periphery of the display panel.

20. A method as claimed in claim 19, further comprising:

attaching a portion of the film that extends beyond the periphery of the display panel to the second, curved, portion of the curved support.