Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a cover window disposed on the display panel. The display panel includes a deformation part, which is curvedly deformable, and a non-deformation part adjacent to the deformation part. The cover window includes a first cover part overlapping the non-deformation part and including crystallized glass, and a second cover part overlapping the deformation part and not including the crystallized glass.

Abstract: A tempered glass manufacturing apparatus includes a loading unit for loading sheets of glass therein. A heating unit receives the loading unit having sheets of glass loaded therein. The heating unit includes first to third openings. A tempering unit is connected to the heating unit through the first opening and receives the loading unit having sheets of glass loaded therein. The tempering unit performs a tempering process on the sheets of glass when the loading unit is positioned in the tempering unit. A residual salt discharging unit is connected to the heating unit through the second opening. An auxiliary layer providing unit is connected to the heating unit through the third opening of the heating unit. The auxiliary layer providing unit includes auxiliary layers for performing a residual salt preprocessing process to increase a removal of residual salt provided on surfaces of the sheets of glass.

Abstract: A cover window includes a first area and a second area, a base layer disposed in the first area and the second area and having flexibility in the first area, and a functional layer disposed on at least one surface of the base layer and including: a first part disposed in the first area and including a first ion and a second part disposed in the second area and including a second ion different from the first ions.

Abstract: A glass article includes a central layer including a first crystalline phase having a first coefficient of thermal expansion and a surface layer surrounding an entirety of the central layer and including a second crystalline phase having a second coefficient of thermal expansion smaller than the first coefficient of thermal expansion. Accordingly, the strength of the glass article may be improved.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a glass article includes a chamber defining an inner space that accommodates a molten salt for molding and chemical strengthening the glass article, a first electrode disposed in the inner space of the chamber and in contact with the molten salt, a second electrode disposed in the inner space of the chamber, in contact with the molten salt, and facing the first electrode, and a power supply connected to the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: A window includes a base glass including a central region, and an exterior region surrounding the central region, and a crystal layer disposed on the base glass and overlapping the exterior region, where the crystal layer includes at least one selected from P2O5, ZrO2, and TiO2, and a crystal content of the base glass is different from a crystal content of the crystal layer.

Abstract: A display module includes a display panel and a window. The window includes a base substrate and a plurality of functional layers. A central portion of the base substrate is flat, and an edge portion of the base substrate has a rounded shape. An upper portion of the edge portion of the window has the rounded shape and thus protrudes from a lower portion of the edge portion toward the outside. A first functional layer of the plurality of functional layers includes an acrylic-based material and/or an epoxy-based material, and a second functional layer of the plurality of functional layers includes a fluorine-based material.

Abstract: A window manufacturing method includes preparing a glass substrate including alkali ions, providing a strengthening material on a surface of the glass substrate, and strengthening the surface of the glass substrate. The strengthening the surface of the glass substrate includes irradiating the strengthening material disposed on the glass substrate with high-frequency waves, and the strengthening material includes a salt including ion exchange target ions, which are ion-exchangeable with the alkali ions included in the glass substrate, and a high-frequency reactive material.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a window includes preparing a base material layer, forming a first hard coating layer on the base material layer, and forming a second hard coating layer on the first hard coating layer. The forming of the second hard coating layer is performed in an environment having an oxygen concentration of about 0.01% to about 0.1%.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a display device includes a stage, a surface member disposed on the stage, a linear motion portion that is spaced apart from the stage and that linearly moves, a mock-up portion disposed on the linear motion portion and that falls to the surface member, and a cover window coupled to the mock-up portion and that includes one surface exposed outside the mock-up portion.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a window includes preparing a base material layer, forming a first hard coating layer on the base material layer, and forming a second hard coating layer on the first hard coating layer. The forming of the second hard coating layer is performed in an environment having an oxygen concentration of about 0.01% to about 0.1%.

Abstract: A display module includes a display panel and a window. The window includes a base substrate and a plurality of functional layers. A central portion of the base substrate is flat, and an edge portion of the base substrate has a rounded shape. An upper portion of the edge portion of the window has the rounded shape and thus protrudes from a lower portion of the edge portion toward the outside. A first functional layer of the plurality of functional layers includes an acrylic-based material and/or an epoxy-based material, and a second functional layer of the plurality of functional layers includes a fluorine-based material.

Abstract: A glass article includes a central layer including a first crystalline phase having a first coefficient of thermal expansion and a surface layer surrounding an entirety of the central layer and including a second crystalline phase having a second coefficient of thermal expansion smaller than the first coefficient of thermal expansion. Accordingly, the strength of the glass article may be improved.

Abstract: Provided is a glass strengthening method including preparing a glass and strengthening the glass by providing the glass with a molten salt, wherein the molten salt has a freezing point of about 220° C. or more and less than 320° C. In addition, the molten salt includes a first salt and a second salt that are different from each other, wherein the first salt is KNO3, and the second salt includes at least one ion of Li+, Na+, K+, Cs+, and/or Rb+.

Abstract: A tempered glass manufacturing apparatus includes a loading unit for loading sheets of glass therein. A heating unit receives the loading unit having sheets of glass loaded therein. The heating unit includes first to third openings. A tempering unit is connected to the heating unit through the first opening and receives the loading unit having sheets of glass loaded therein. The tempering unit performs a tempering process on the sheets of glass when the loading unit is positioned in the tempering unit. A residual salt discharging unit is connected to the heating unit through the second opening. An auxiliary layer providing unit is connected to the heating unit through the third opening of the heating unit. The auxiliary layer providing unit includes auxiliary layers for performing a residual salt preprocessing process to increase a removal of residual salt provided on surfaces of the sheets of glass.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel for displaying an image; a light guide plate overlapping the display panel and having a light exit surface, a bottoms surface opposite to the light exit surface, and a plurality of edge surfaces; and a plurality of light sources spaced apart from each other and configured to project light into a first edge surface of the plurality of edge surfaces of the light guide plate. The bottom surface includes a plurality of diffusion parts defining an activation area adjacent to a second edge surface of the plurality of edge surfaces opposite to the first edge surface, and a plurality of functional pattern parts defining a pattern area adjacent to the first edge surface. The functional pattern parts overlap a space between adjacent light sources, respectively, when viewed in a first direction heading from the light source part to the first edge surface.

Abstract: A loading apparatus for glass plates includes first and second frames facing each other and supporters extending in a first direction, disposed between the first frame and the second frame, and coupled with the first frame and the second frame. Each of the plurality of supporters includes a supporting bar and a coating layer covering at least a portion of the supporting bar. The plurality of supporters supports the glass plates arranged in the first direction, and the coating layer includes at least one of Teflon, molybdenum, ceramic, and metal oxide.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a window includes providing a base substrate and a protective film each including an upper surface and a lower surface, providing the upper surface of the protective film removably attached to the lower surface of the base substrate, providing a processed base substrate and a processed protective film by removing portions of the base substrate and the protective film to provide an exposed upper surface of the processed protective film which is closer to the lower surface thereof than the upper surface thereof, providing a first surface protection layer on both the upper surface of the processed base substrate and the exposed upper surface of the processed protective film, and providing the processed protective film separated from the processed base substrate to provide the window which is attachable to a display device and includes the processed base substrate having the first surface protection layer.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel displaying an image, a backlight unit including a light guide plate overlapping the display panel and a light source part including a plurality of light sources providing light to the light incident surface and spaced apart from each other, in which the bottom surface includes an activation area adjacent to the light facing surface and a pattern area adjacent to the light incident surface, diffusion pattern parts disposed in the activation area, and functional pattern parts disposed in the pattern area, and the functional pattern parts overlap spaced spaces between adjacent light sources, respectively, when viewed in a first direction heading from the light source part to the light incident surface.

Abstract: A cover window includes a base member which includes a top surface, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface, and a side surface connecting the top surface and the bottom surface to each other, a first hard coating layer on the top surface of the base member, and a protection layer in direct contact with at least a portion of the side surface of the base member.