US 11,997,225 B2
Electronic device comprising flexible display
Minuk Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Harksang Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Jiyoung Kwak, Suwon-si (KR); Soonik Park, Suwon-si (KR); Sungho Ahn, Suwon-si (KR); Sangyong Eom, Suwon-si (KR); Hyunwoong Chung, Suwon-si (KR); Joungmin Cho, Suwon-si (KR); Kwangtai Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Donghyun Yeom, Suwon-si (KR); and Changryong Heo, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Appl. No. 17/623,108
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
PCT Filed Jun. 24, 2020, PCT No. PCT/KR2020/008236
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 27, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/262965, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0075287 (KR), filed on Jun. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0368786 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H04M 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC H04M 1/0268 (2013.01) [H04M 1/0216 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable communication device, comprising:
a housing which forms an exterior of the portable communication device;
a flexible display at least partially received in the housing and bendable with respect to a bending axis, the flexible display comprising at least one layer, an opening formed in the at least one layer; and
an image sensor module at least partially positioned in a space formed by the opening,
wherein the at least one layer, comprises a first inner side surface positioned in a first direction based on the image sensor module and a second inner side surface positioned in a second direction opposite to the first direction based on the image sensor module,
as the flexible display is at least partially bent, the first inner side surface is moved in the second direction, and
if the flexible display is substantially flat, a first separation distance between a first side surface of the image sensor module facing the first inner side surface of the at least one layer and the first inner side surface of the at least one layer is greater than a second separation distance between a second side surface of the image sensor module facing the second inner side surface of the at least one layer and the second inner side surface of the at least one layer.