US 11,997,803 B2
Rollable electronic device including flexible display
Hyunggwang Kang, Suwon-si (KR); Hojin Jung, Suwon-si (KR); Baekeun Cho, Suwon-si (KR); Hyoungtak Cho, Suwon-si (KR); Junhyuk Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Hoyoung Jeong, Suwon-si (KR); and Changryong Heo, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Nov. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/520,358.
Application 17/520,358 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2021/016070, filed on Nov. 5, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0147753 (KR), filed on Nov. 6, 2020; and application No. 10-2021-0019279 (KR), filed on Feb. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0151091 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. H05K 5/00 (2006.01); H05K 5/02 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 5/0217 (2013.01) [H05K 5/0017 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A electronic device comprising:
a housing including a first housing and a second housing, wherein the first housing is configured to move relative to the second housing;
a flexible display, wherein an area of the flexible display exposed to an outside of the electronic device is configured to change, between a contracted state and an expanded state, according movement of the first housing;
a multi-bar plate configured to support at least a portion of the flexible display;
a link assembly disposed in an inner space of the housing to support at least a portion of the multi-bar plate and including a first arm and a second arm, wherein the second arm is rotatably coupled to the first arm and is rotatably coupled to a portion of the first housing, wherein the link assembly includes a plurality of rotating axes; and
a rotation detection sensor disposed on a position corresponding to one of the plurality of rotating axes, and configured to detect a degree of rotation while the first arm rotates about one of the plurality of rotating axes and the second arm rotates about one of the plurality of rotating axes.