US 12,192,393 B2
Electronic device including flexible display
Junyoung Choi, Suwon-si (KR); Youngmin Kang, Suwon-si (KR); Myunghoon Kwak, Suwon-si (KR); Moonchul Shin, Suwon-si (KR); Yeonggyu Yoon, Suwon-si (KR); Seungjoon Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Joongyeon Cho, Suwon-si (KR); Junghyun Ahn, Suwon-si (KR); and Byounguk Yoon, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Apr. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/713,508.
Application 17/713,508 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2022/004710, filed on Apr. 1, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0063349 (KR), filed on May 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0368787 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H04M 1/02 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC H04M 1/0268 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1624 (2013.01); G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); H04M 1/0237 (2013.01); H04M 2201/38 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a first housing;
a second housing slidably coupled to the first housing along a first direction and moving with respect to the first housing between a slide-in state and a slide-out state;
a bendable member comprising a plurality of multi-bars;
a support plate configured to support at least a portion of the bendable member; and
a flexible display supported by the bendable member,
wherein the support plate comprises a guide slit formed to have a length along the first direction,
wherein a part of multi-bars among the plurality of multi-bars, which are positioned corresponding to a portion of the flexible display that is exposed to the outside of the electronic device in the slide-out state comprise a plurality of engaging protrusions configured to be engaged with the guide slit, and
wherein the bendable member comprises a guide protrusion formed at each of the opposite ends of each of the plurality of multi-bars, each of the guide protrusions is guided to move along a guide groove formed at a position corresponding to the guide protrusion in the second housing.