Method of manufacturing display apparatus

• US 9,229,565 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2013
• Issued: 01/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Shin, Jae Deuk
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Paul D
• Application Number:
  US13/942,875
• Publication Number:
  US 20140130339A1
• Time in Patent Office: 903 Days
• Field of Search: 295/921, 296/021, 298/31, 298/35, 298/46, 298/54, 298/71, 298/72, 298/73, 178/18.01, 178/18.03, 178/18.05, 345/173, 345/174, 349149-152
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/50 Protective arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/501 Blocking layers, e.g. against migration of ions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04103 Manufacturing, i.e. details related to manufacturing processes specially suited for touch sensitive devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/8445 multilayered coatings having a repetitive structure, e.g. having multiple organic-inorganic bilayers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/40 OLEDs integrated with touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/00 Manufacture or treatment specially adapted for the organic devices covered by this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49002 Electrical device making

Abstract

A method of manufacturing a display apparatus includes providing a display panel including two substrates facing each other and a display device disposed between the two substrates; providing a touch screen panel attached onto an outer side surface of one of the two substrates; attaching a multilayer protection film including a plurality of films having acid resistance onto the touch screen panel; etching the other of the two substrates; and removing the multilayer protection film. The protection films have penetration holes, each of the protection films having a different average area of the penetration holes in a plan view.

Claims

1. A method of manufacturing a display apparatus, the method comprising:

providing a display panel including a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other and a display device disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate;

providing a touch screen panel attached onto an outer side surface of the first substrate;

attaching a multilayer protection film including a plurality of protection films having acid resistance onto the touch screen panel;

etching the second substrate; and

removing the multilayer protection film,

wherein the protection films have penetration holes, each of the protection films having a different average area of the penetration holes in a plan view.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the average area of the penetration holes of respective ones of the protection films in a plan view increases in accordance with a distance of the respective ones of the protection films from the touch screen panel.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a thickness of respective ones of the protection films decreases in accordance with an increase in the average area of the penetration holes of the protection films.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the etching process includes a wet etching process using an etchant.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the average area of penetration holes of each of the protection films is equal to or smaller than a size of molecules in the etchant.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the multilayer protection film includes:

a first protection film disposed on the touch screen panel and exposed to the outside when the etching process is performed; and

a second protection film disposed between the first protection film and the touch screen panel.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the average area of penetration holes of the first protection film is greater than the average area of penetration holes of the second protection film in the plan view.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein a thickness of the second protection film is greater than a thickness of the first protection film.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the multilayer protection film includes:

a first protection film disposed on the touch screen panel and exposed to the outside when the etching process is performed;

a second protection film disposed between the first protection film and the touch screen panel; and

a third protection film disposed between the second protection film and the touch screen panel.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein:

an average area of penetration holes of the first protection film is greater than an average area of penetration holes of the second protection film, and

the average area of penetration holes of the second protection film is greater than an average area of penetration holes of the third protection film.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein:

a thickness of the third protection film is greater than a thickness of the second protection film and

the thickness of the second protection film is greater than a thickness of the first protection film.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein etching the second substrate reduces a thickness of the second substrate.