US 12,366,885 B2
Electronic device and method including flexible display
Soohyun Seo, Suwon-si (KR); Myunghoon Kwak, Suwon-si (KR); Jooyoung Kang, Suwon-si (KR); Hyunsuk Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Sanghyuk Park, Suwon-si (KR); Jihyung Jung, Suwon-si (KR); Joungmin Cho, Suwon-si (KR); Nakhyun Choi, 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 Oct. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/975,341.
Application 17/975,341 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2021/016019, filed on Nov. 5, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0148063 (KR), filed on Nov. 6, 2020; and application No. 10-2021-0032181 (KR), filed on Mar. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0040057 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1624 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1652 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a housing comprising a first housing constituting a side face and rear face of the electronic device and a second housing slidably coupled to the first housing within a specific range;
a heating part disposed to at least one region of the first housing and second housing;
a driving unit disposed to one region in the housing;
a flexible display of which at least one region is viewable from the outside of the electronic device through the front face of the electronic device and which comprises a metal plate, wherein the flexible display comprises a first portion exposed to the outside of the housing and a second portion extending from the first portion and inserted into the housing or drawn out to the outside when the second housing moves with respect to the first housing;
a support structure attached to a rear face of the second portion;
at least one temperature sensor disposed at least partially inside the housing; and
at least one processor electrically coupled to at least one of the heating part, the driving unit, the flexible display, the support structure, and the temperature sensor,
wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
determine a temperature at a region in which the second portion of the flexible display is disposed through the at least one temperature sensor;
determine whether an event for moving the second housing occurs;
based on at least determination of the event for moving the second housing, control a movement speed of the second housing to a first driving speed, based on at least the sensed temperature being greater than or equal to a first temperature;
based on at least determination of the event for moving the second housing, control the movement speed of the second housing to a second driving speed different from the first driving speed or restrict a movement of the second housing, based on at least the sensed temperature being less than the first temperature at the occurrence of the event for moving the second housing; and
supply a first power to at least one of the heating part, the driving unit, the metal plate, and the support structure.