	US 12,253,885 B2
	Electronic device including flexible display
Jonghae Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Joungmin Cho, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Sungdae Choi, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Kwangtai Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Donghyun Yeom, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/527,313.
Application 17/527,313 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2021/016546, filed on Nov. 12, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0168777 (KR), filed on Dec. 4, 2020; and application No. 10-2021-0006641 (KR), filed on Jan. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0182477 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01)

CPC G06F 1/1652 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1624 (2013.01); G06F 1/1683 (2013.01); H04M 1/0237 (2013.01); H04M 1/0268 (2013.01); G06F 1/1616 (2013.01); G06F 1/1681 (2013.01); H04M 1/0216 (2013.01)]

11 Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising: a first housing defining an inner space; a second housing slidably coupled to the first housing; a flexible display including a first portion at least partially disposed at the first housing and visible from an exterior of the electronic device when disposed in a retracted state and a second portion extending from the first portion and at least partially retracted into the inner space so as to be invisible from the exterior, the flexible display including: a protection layer, a display panel laminated on at least a portion of the protection layer, an extension extending from the display panel, the extension disposed in a region corresponding to the second portion, having a control circuit disposed thereon, and disposed to be supported by the protection layer; a display substrate electrically connected to the extension, with the control circuit interposed therebetween; and a support member disposed between the display substrate and the protection layer, the support member configured to support at least a portion of the display substrate.