US 11,886,241 B2
Foldable display and portable electronic device
Yen-Chou Chueh, New Taipei (TW); Chun-Hsien Chen, New Taipei (TW); Chi-Tai Ho, New Taipei (TW); Chih-Heng Tsou, New Taipei (TW); and Chun-Hung Wen, New Taipei (TW)
Assigned to Acer Incorporated, New Taipei (TW)
Filed by Acer Incorporated, New Taipei (TW)
Filed on Mar. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/185,386.
Application 18/185,386 is a division of application No. 17/068,791, filed on Oct. 12, 2020, granted, now 11,644,866.
Claims priority of application No. 109108024 (TW), filed on Mar. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0221762 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H05K 5/03 (2006.01); H05K 5/02 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1618 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1616 (2013.01); G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); G06F 1/1656 (2013.01); G06F 1/1681 (2013.01); H05K 5/0204 (2013.01); H05K 5/0226 (2013.01); H05K 5/03 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable electronic device, comprising:
a host;
a first rotating shaft;
a foldable display, wherein the first rotating shaft is connected between the host and the foldable display, the foldable display rotates through the first rotating shaft relative to the host to be unfolded and closed, the first rotating shaft has a first gear, and the foldable display comprises:
a first bracket;
at least one second bracket; and
at least one second rotating shaft, connecting the first bracket and the second bracket, the first bracket and the second bracket relatively rotating through the second rotating shaft to be unfolded and closed, and the second rotating shaft having a second gear engaged with the first gear,
wherein when the host and the foldable display relatively rotate through the first rotating shaft to be unfolded and closed, the first rotating shaft drives the second rotating shaft via the first gear and the second gear, so that the second bracket rotates relative to the first bracket to be unfolded and closed.