	US 11,740,499 B2
	Display device including a surface-modified adhesive area and a method of manufacturing the same
Jiwon Jung, Seoul (KR); Youngji Kim, Hwaseong-si (KR); Yiseul Um, Chungcheongnam-do (KR); Younghoon Lee, Gwangmyeong-si (KR); and Wonje Jo, Ansan-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed on Nov. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/518,763.
Application 17/518,763 is a division of application No. 16/789,663, filed on Feb. 13, 2020, granted, now 11,199,737.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0018471 (KR), filed on Feb. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0057665 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G02B 1/14 (2015.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01); G02F 1/1335 (2006.01); G02F 1/13 (2006.01)

CPC G02F 1/13338 (2013.01) [G02F 1/133528 (2013.01); C09J 2203/318 (2013.01); C09K 2323/00 (2020.08); C09K 2323/05 (2020.08); G02F 1/1316 (2021.01); G02F 2201/50 (2013.01); G02F 2202/16 (2013.01); G02F 2202/28 (2013.01)]

10 Claims

1. A method of manufacturing a display device, comprising:

providing a working panel attached to a working protective film, the working panel comprising a plurality of cell areas and a peripheral area adjacent to the cell areas;

patterning the working protective film to expose the peripheral area to an outside and to remain cell protective films corresponding to the cell areas;

cutting the working panel along the peripheral area to form a plurality of display modules, wherein the cell protective films of the working protective film are respectively attached to the plurality of display modules;

surface-modifying an outer area, of a first display module of the plurality of display modules, that is not covered by a corresponding cell protective film among the cell protective films;

grinding an edge of the outer area of the first display module;

cleaning the first display module;

removing the corresponding cell protective film from the first display module; and

attaching the first display module to an external member.