US 11,889,008 B2
Electronic device including elastic member
Jongmin Kang, Suwon-si (KR); Yunsik Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Jungwon Park, Suwon-si (KR); Seungchul Baek, Suwon-si (KR); Suman Lee, Suwon-si (KR); and Chijoon Kim, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Oct. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/503,896.
Application 17/503,896 is a continuation of application No. 16/838,487, filed on Apr. 2, 2020, granted, now 11,153,421.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0052095 (KR), filed on May 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0038563 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04M 1/02 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H05K 1/02 (2006.01); H05K 1/18 (2006.01)
CPC H04M 1/0216 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1616 (2013.01); G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); G06F 1/1681 (2013.01); H04M 1/0268 (2013.01); H04M 1/0277 (2013.01); H05K 1/028 (2013.01); H05K 1/189 (2013.01); H04M 2201/38 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a first housing structure;
a second housing structure;
a hinge cover;
a hinge structure rotatably connecting the first housing structure and the second housing structure while being covered by the hinge cover; and
a flexible printed circuit board crossing the hinge structure and extending from an inside of the first housing structure to an inside of the second housing structure via a first opening and a second opening and the flexible printed circuit board including fixed portions and a flexible portion between the fixed portions, and
wherein the hinge structure includes:
a first flexible material member attached adjacent to the first opening; and
a second flexible material member attached adjacent to the second opening, and
wherein the first flexible material member and the second flexible material member are configured to prevent direct contact between the hinge structure and the flexible portion of the flexible printed circuit board during folding or unfolding of the electronic device.