US 12,216,507 B2
Transverse compression cam for a flexible display device
Stephen E. Delaporte, New York, NY (US)
Assigned to LEPTON COMPUTING LLC, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Filed by Lepton Computing LLC, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Filed on Jan. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/567,124.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/122,602, filed on Dec. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0187877 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1681 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1616 (2013.01); G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0412 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
(a) a flexible touch-sensitive display composed of a first flexible touch-sensitive display portion and a second flexible touch-sensitive display portion; wherein:
(1) the first flexible touch-sensitive display portion is attached to a first structural support segment;
(2) the second flexible touch-sensitive display portion is attached to a second structural support segment;
(3) the flexible touch-sensitive display further comprises having a fully folded state;
(4) the flexible touch-sensitive display further comprises having a partially expanded state;
(5) the flexible touch-sensitive display further comprises having a fully expanded state;
(b) a mechanism having a cam with a continuous compressive force applied to the cam by a pin component and a compression spring, whereby the pin component has an internal cavity with an open end on a first end of the pin and a closed end on a second end of the pin which further includes a guide structure situated within the internal cavity of the pin, whereby the pin and the compression spring are supported by a pin holding structure having a track and opening which are configured in a transverse position spanning between the first and the second flexible touch-sensitive display structural support segments; whereby the guide structure of the pin and the compression spring move axially along the pin holding structure track and partially within the pin holding structure opening, and the cam is mechanically linked to at least one flexible touch-sensitive display structural support segment such that as the apparatus is folded, the folding motion of the apparatus activates the rotational motion of the cam mechanism.