US 12,294,666 B2
Electronic device including hinge cover
Junyong Song, Suwon-si (KR); Byoungjin Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Sejung Whang, Suwon-si (KR); Nakyoung Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Valentin Sollier, San Francisco, CA (US); Yves Behar, San Francisco, CA (US); and Qin Li, South San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR); and FUSEPROJECT, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/733,066.
Application 17/733,066 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2022/006042, filed on Apr. 27, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0056837 (KR), filed on Apr. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0353354 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04M 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC H04M 1/0216 (2013.01) 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a first housing;
a second housing rotatably coupled with the first housing through a hinge module and configured to rotate between a first position at which the second housing at least partially faces the first housing and a second position at which the second housing is unfolded from the first position to an angle that is greater at the first position,
wherein the fall hinge module includes a hinge providing at least one folding axis and rotatably coupling the first housing and the second housing about the folding axis; and
a hinge cover disposed between the first housing and the second housing and coupled to surround at least a part of the hinge module,
wherein by moving and/or deforming of the hinge cover based on rotating of the first housing and/or the second housing, at least a portion of the hinge cover is configured to be located further away from the hinge module at the first position than at the second position such that visual and/or tactile sense of heterogeneity in the first position, caused by a stepped portion at boundaries between an outer face of the hinge cover and an outer face of the first or second housing, is reduced.