US 12,326,992 B2
Electronic device including flexible display, window, and touch electrode in electrode layer between window and flexible display, and touch control method therefor
Hoyoung Jeong, Suwon-si (KR); Myunghoon Kwak, Suwon-si (KR); Moonsun Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Hojin Jung, Suwon-si (KR); Junhyuk Kim, Suwon-si (KR); and Soyoung Lee, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/737,375.
Application 18/737,375 is a continuation of application No. 18/295,551, filed on Apr. 4, 2023, granted, now 12,013,999.
Application 18/295,551 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2021/016640, filed on Nov. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0153969 (KR), filed on Nov. 17, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0171651 (KR), filed on Dec. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0329766 A1, Oct. 3, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0416 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0443 (2019.05); G06F 2203/04102 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a housing including a first housing part and a second housing part slidably coupled to the first housing part, such that the housing is movable between a reduced state and an expanded state;
a flexible display coupled to the first housing part and the second housing part, such that a size of an area of the flexible display that is visible from a front side of the electronic device changes as the housing is moved between the reduced state and the expanded state by a sliding operation;
a transparent window disposed in the housing, wherein a partial area of the flexible display is visible through the transparent window in the reduced state of the housing; and
at least one first touch electrode disposed on one side of the transparent window facing the partial area and being arranged between the transparent window and the flexible display.