US 11,994,914 B2
Electronic device including friction reducing structure
Myunghoon Kwak, Suwon-si (KR); Moonchul Shin, Suwon-si (KR); Seungjoon Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Yangwook Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Byounguk Yoon, Suwon-si (KR); and Hyunju Hong, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Dec. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/089,678.
Application 18/089,678 is a continuation of application No. 17/377,940, filed on Jul. 16, 2021, granted, now 11,543,859.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0131417 (KR), filed on Oct. 12, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0148475 (KR), filed on Nov. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0161382 A1, May 25, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1652 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1686 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a first housing, and an inner space at least partially defined by the first housing;
a second housing slidably coupled to the first housing along a first direction;
a flexible display at least partially supported by the second housing and configured to be received in the inner space to be at least partially invisible from the outside in a slide-in state of the electronic device;
a bendable member, comprising bendable material, connected to the second housing to support at least a part of the flexible display; and
a first friction reducing structure disposed between at least the first housing and the bendable member,
wherein the first friction reducing structure comprises:
at least one first magnet disposed in the first housing; and
at least one second magnet disposed on the bendable member,
wherein the at least one first magnet and the at least one second magnet are arranged to have identical polarities at least partially facing each other along a second direction perpendicular to a surface of the flexible display.