US 12,248,336 B2
Slidable display device
Won Beom Lee, Pyeongtaek-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Oct. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/969,134.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0034792 (KR), filed on Mar. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0315145 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1624 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); G06F 1/1656 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display module having a flat area and a bendable area, wherein the bendable area has a first side adjacent to the flat area in a first direction; and
a sliding module at least partially surrounded by the display module and configured to slide the display module in the first direction,
wherein the sliding module comprises:
a central part comprising an upper central portion and a lower central portion, wherein the upper central portion is disposed under the flat area of the display module, and the lower central portion is disposed under the upper central portion;
an upper expandable part configured to expand and contract in the first direction and having a first side connected to the upper central portion of the central part;
a roller connected to a second side, opposite to the first side, of the upper expandable part to bend the bendable area of the display module;
a first lower expandable part configured to expand and contract in the first direction and having a first side connected to the lower central portion of the central part; and
a second lower expandable part configured to expand and contract in the first direction and having a first side connected to a second side, opposite to the first side, of the first lower expandable part,
wherein a second side, opposite to the first side, of the second lower expandable part is connected to a second side, opposite to the first side, of the bendable area,
wherein the first lower expandable part directly contacts the second lower expandable part.