US 12,248,337 B2
Electronic device having flexible display and operation method thereof
Hyunggwang Kang, Suwon-si (KR); Minsoo Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Myunghoon Kwak, Suwon-si (KR); Moonchul Shin, Suwon-si (KR); Kibeom Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Teayoung Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Sanghyuk Park, Suwon-si (KR); Yangwook Kim, Suwon-si (KR); and Hyunju Hong, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Dec. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/074,983.
Application 18/074,983 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2021/005556, filed on May 3, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0068614 (KR), filed on Jun. 5, 2020; and application No. 10-2021-0005507 (KR), filed on Jan. 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0103303 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G09F 9/30 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1652 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1624 (2013.01); G06F 1/163 (2013.01); G09F 9/301 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a housing including a first housing and a second housing, wherein the second housing is configured to movably engaged with the first housing between a retracted position and an extended position;
a flexible display coupled to the first housing and the second housing such that a size of a visible area of the flexible display changes as the second housing is moved between the retracted position and the extended position;
a gear structure including a rotation shaft disposed in the first housing, at least one first gear portion on the rotation shaft, the at least one first gear portion rotating the housing, and at least one second gear portion, on the rotation shaft, spaced apart from the first gear portion, the at least one second gear portion moving the second housing with respect to the first housing; and
a wearing member rotatably coupled to the first housing and configured to be separated from or worn on a portion of a human body,
wherein, as the gear structure rotates, the rotation of the gear structure changes the size of the visible area of the flexible display and the rotation of the gear structure rotates the housing with respect to the wearing member.
 
2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein a central axis of the wearing member is different from a central axis of the rotation shaft.