US 12,299,224 B2
Flexible display device
Jaiku Shin, Hwaseong-si (KR); Sojeong La, Suwon-si (KR); and Sung Chul Choi, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on May 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/312,846.
Application 18/312,846 is a division of application No. 17/323,187, filed on May 18, 2021, granted, now 11,669,179.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0115614 (KR), filed on Sep. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0273694 A1, Aug. 31, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); B32B 27/08 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0412 (2013.01) [B32B 27/08 (2013.01); B32B 2307/208 (2013.01); B32B 2457/208 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04102 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device, comprising:
a display panel that is foldable with respect to a folding axis and includes a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, the display area including a plurality of pixels to generate an image;
a digitizer disposed under the display panel part and entirely overlapping the display area to sense a coordinate of an input member on the display area by using electromagnetic resonance, the digitizer having a lower surface, which includes a recess when the display device is in an unfolded state;
a magnetic member having a plate shape that entirely overlaps the digitizer and being disposed under the digitizer such that the digitizer is disposed between the display panel and the magnetic member; and
a support structure disposed under the digitizer such that the digitizer is disposed between the display panel and the support structure, wherein the digitizer has a first thickness within the recess that is less than a second thickness beyond the recess, when the display device is in the unfolded state, when the display device is in the unfolded state, and wherein a portion of the support structure is disposed within the recess.