US 12,066,857 B2
Electronic devices
Zhenhua Luo, Beijing (CN); Hao Wu, Beijing (CN); Na An, Beijing (CN); Xiao Ma, Beijing (CN); Gang Ci, Beijing (CN); Xinfeng Gong, Beijing (CN); Shaopeng Xu, Beijing (CN); Zheng Zhang, Beijing (CN); Qingzhu Guan, Beijing (CN); Guochun Wang, Beijing (CN); Zuoxin Yu, Beijing (CN); Dianzhong Liu, Beijing (CN); Zheng Zong, Beijing (CN); Pengcheng Dong, Beijing (CN); Quan Long, Beijing (CN); and Qidong Sun, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing (CN); and BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing (CN)
Appl. No. 17/607,350
Filed by Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing (CN); and BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing (CN)
PCT Filed Jan. 14, 2021, PCT No. PCT/CN2021/071836
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 28, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/143782, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 202010048171.7 (CN), filed on Jan. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0221905 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1616 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1626 (2013.01); G06F 1/1656 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a housing recessed inward to form one or more clearances penetrating the housing along a first direction;
support plates, wherein a number of the support plates is at least two, and one clearance is correspondingly arranged below adjoining parts of two adjacent support plates; and
a display panel, wherein the support plates are configured to support the display panel,
wherein the display panel is switchable between a folded position and an unfolded position;
when the display panel is in the unfolded position, first surfaces of the support plates that abut against the display panel are flush; when the display panel is in the folded position, any two oppositely folded and adjacent support plates are separated by a part of the display panel that covers the any two oppositely folded and adjacent support plates when the display panel is in the unfolded position, and a part of the any two oppositely folded and adjacent support plates and a part of the display panel that covers the part of the any two oppositely folded and adjacent support plates when the display panel is in the unfolded position enter a corresponding clearance;
wherein the number of the support plates is two, and the two support plates correspond to one clearance; two end surfaces of each of the support plates along the first direction are respectively provided with a fixation point, and the support plates are rotatable around respective fixation points;
wherein the electronic device further comprises connecting mechanisms, two ends of each of the connecting mechanisms are respectively connected with the fixation points on the end surfaces of the two support plates on a same side along the first direction;
wherein each of the connecting mechanisms comprises at least three positioning points, two of the positioning points are respectively connected with the fixation points on the end surfaces of the two support plates on the same side along the first direction, and remaining one of the positioning points is connected with the housing;
wherein connecting lines of the three positioning points form a triangle.