Patent ID: 9642257
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G02F,H05K

Claim:
1. A display device, comprising: a display panel including a display area for displaying an image and a non-display area other than the display area; a signal supplying board to be connected to an external signal source; and a flexible board having flexibility and including one edge portion connected to the non-display area of the display panel and another edge portion connected to the signal supplying board to relay supply of signals from the signal supplying board, wherein the display panel and the flexible board are arranged in a first direction, and a direction perpendicular to the first direction and along a plate surface of the display panel is a second direction, the flexible board has a dimension in the second direction larger than a dimension of the signal supplying board in the second direction, the flexible board including an end portion and a middle portion, the end portion including at least an outer portion of the flexible board located on an outer side with respect to the signal supplying board in the second direction, the middle portion being located about a middle of the flexible board with respect to the end portion in the second direction, the end portion of the flexible board has a dimension in the first direction larger than a dimension of the middle portion in the first direction, the end portion of the flexible board includes an adjacent portion adjacent to the outer portion that is located on an outer side with respect to the signal supplying board in the second direction, and the flexible board is connected with the rigid board at the adjacent portion of the end portion adjacent to the outer portion of the end portion located on the outer side with respect to the signal supplying board in the second direction, and the outer portion located on the outer side with respect to the signal supplying board in the second direction has a dimension in the first direction that is constant or increases from an end of the flexible board toward a middle of the flexible board in the second direction.