US 12,342,481 B2
Folding display device
Se Bong Kim, Asan-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Feb. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/165,472.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0023592 (KR), filed on Feb. 23, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0269891 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. H05K 5/02 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 5/0217 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device, comprising:
a display module comprising a folding area that is foldable with respect to a folding axis that extends in a first direction and first and second non-folding areas extended in a second direction crossing the first direction with the folding area interposed between the first non-folding area and the second non-folding area;
a first body disposed under the first non-folding area;
a second body disposed under the second non-folding area;
a center body disposed under the folding area; and
a plurality of support plates, each extending in the first direction, arranged in the second direction, disposed between the center body and the folding area, and rotatably coupled with each other,
wherein lengths in the second direction of each of the plurality of support plates, as measured in an unfolded state of the display device, increase as a curvature of the folding area, as measured in a folded state of the display device, decreases.