US 12,254,146 B2
Flexible image display device with movable detector
Yoshito Saito, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Yoshito Saito, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Sep. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/948,247.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-161334 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2021; and application No. 2022-125001 (JP), filed on Aug. 4, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0114712 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); H05K 5/03 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0412 (2013.01) [G06F 2203/04102 (2013.01); H05K 5/03 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image display device, comprising:
a flexible display;
a touch sensor provided to overlap a back surface of the flexible display; and
a housing surrounding the flexible display and the touch sensor, and configured to be folded together with the flexible display and the touch sensor at a bent position,
wherein
the touch sensor includes a first detector and a second detector with the bent position as a boundary,
the first detector is bonded to the back surface of the flexible display by an adhesive layer,
the second detector is provided without having the adhesive layer between the second detector and the back surface of the flexible display,
the first detector and the second detector form one continuous sheet,
the housing is configured to be folded in half by being folded at a bent portion into a valley fold with the flexible display on an inside and the touch sensor on an outside, and
an entire surface of the touch sensor on one side with respect to the bent portion is bonded to the back surface of the flexible display, and the second detector on the other side with respect to the bent portion is not bonded to the back surface of the flexible display.