US 11,874,698 B2
Display device and electronic device including the same
Jaiku Shin, Hwaseong-si (KR); Dongwoo Seo, Suwon-si (KR); Jihye Shin, Cheonan-si (KR); Jin Yong Sim, Seongnam-si (KR); Seokchan Lee, Suwon-si (KR); and Sung Chul Choi, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Mar. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/705,860.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0076686 (KR), filed on Jun. 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0404867 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1616 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1643 (2013.01); G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); G06F 1/1656 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display panel including a first non-folding area, a folding area, and a second non-folding area; and
a support plate which is disposed under the display panel and in which a plurality of openings arranged in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction and overlapping the folding area is defined, the support plate comprising:
a first branch disposed between openings adjacent to each other in the second direction among the plurality of openings; and
a second branch disposed between openings adjacent to each other in the first direction among the plurality of openings,
wherein a first width of the first branch in the second direction is smaller than a second width of each of the openings in the second direction, and
wherein the second width of the each of the openings is constant along a length defining substantially an entire length of the each of the openings in the first direction.