US 12,069,822 B2
Panel support and display device including the same
Sung Sang Ahn, Hwaseong-si (KR); Tae Chang Kim, Anyang-si (KR); Tae Hoon Yang, Yongin-si (KR); and Jung Hun Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Jul. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/813,921.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0173958 (KR), filed on Dec. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0180403 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. H05K 5/02 (2006.01); H05K 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 5/0217 (2013.01) [H05K 5/0018 (2022.08)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device, comprising:
a display panel configured to slide in a first direction;
a panel storage compartment configured to accommodate the display panel therein and to assist a sliding operation of the display panel in the first direction;
a support attached to a lower surface of the display panel;
a first plurality of segments attached to the lower surface of the display panel on a first side of the support, each of the first plurality of segments extended in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and spaced apart from one another in the first direction;
a second plurality of segments attached to the lower surface of the display panel on a second side of the support opposite to the first side of the support, each of the second plurality of segments extending in the second direction and spaced apart from one another in the first direction, and
bearings disposed inside each of the first plurality of segments and second plurality of segments and at least partially exposed by the first and second pluralities of segments,
wherein the panel storage compartment comprises guide rails that are engaged with the bearings.