Patent ID: 8144140

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising; a driving panel; a seal panel; and an adhesive layer between the seal panel and the driving panel, wherein, the driving panel includes a substrate, a circuit part, a coating layer and a display part, the display part having a plurality of display devices, the circuit part, coating layer and display part layered on the substrate in that order, the display apparatus has an adhesion region which includes the circuit part, the coating layer and the display part, the adhesive layer and the seal panel, the display apparatus has a terminal region which includes a portion of each of the substrate, the circuit part and the coating layer extending outside of the adhesion region, a plurality of metallic wires are electrically connected to the circuit part in said adhesion region and extend out therefrom into the terminal region, the coating layer covers a portion of each of the metallic wires extending into the terminal region, the coating layer includes at least one elongated opening between adjacent metallic wires, the at least one elongated opening of the coating layer extends into both the adhesion region and the terminal region and is formed such that an end edge thereof lies in the terminal region but does not to reach an end edge of the terminal region.