US 11,940,842 B2
Electronic device including flexible display
Youngmin Kang, Suwon-si (KR); Junyoung Choi, Suwon-si (KR); Moonchul Shin, Suwon-si (KR); Yeonggyu Yoon, Suwon-si (KR); Seungjoon Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Joongyeon Cho, Suwon-si (KR); and Byounguk Yoon, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Oct. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/505,076.
Application 17/505,076 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2021/013940, filed on Oct. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0131405 (KR), filed on Oct. 12, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0181060 (KR), filed on Dec. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0113765 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H05K 5/02 (2006.01); H05K 7/18 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1652 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1681 (2013.01); H05K 5/0226 (2013.01); H05K 7/183 (2013.01); G06F 2200/1612 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a housing;
a flexible display disposed in the housing so that at least a portion of the flexible display is either drawn outside from an inner space of the housing or introduced into the inner space of the housing;
a display support structure including a plurality of support bars supporting a rear surface of the flexible display, wherein the plurality of support bars each comprise:
a first end portion,
a second end portion, and
a display support disposed to correspond to the flexible display between the first end portion and the second end portion;
a first guide rail including a first guide recess formed along a path in which the display support structure is moved when at least the portion of the flexible display is drawn outside from the housing or introduced into the inner space of the housing, the first end portion of each of the plurality of support bars being inserted into the first guide recess;
a second guide rail including a second guide recess formed along the path, the second end portion of each of the plurality of support bars being inserted into the second guide recess; and
a rotation part rotatably disposed in the first end portion of at least one of the plurality of support bars in the first guide recess of the first guide rail and rotatably disposed in the second end portion of at least one of the plurality of support bars in the second guide recess of the second guide rail.