US 12,075,689 B2
Display device having flexible support member having openings
Dongwoo Seo, Suwon-si (KR); Dong Jin Park, Seongnam-si (KR); Jai Ku Shin, Hwaseong-si (KR); and Sung-Chul Choi, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Apr. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/713,159.
Application 17/713,159 is a continuation of application No. 16/819,366, filed on Mar. 16, 2020, granted, now 11,296,286.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0075942 (KR), filed on Jun. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0231241 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H10K 77/10 (2023.01); B32B 7/12 (2006.01); H10K 59/12 (2023.01); H10K 102/00 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 77/111 (2023.02) [B32B 7/12 (2013.01); H10K 59/12 (2023.02); B32B 2457/20 (2013.01); H10K 2102/311 (2023.02)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a display panel having a foldable area;
a support member disposed on a bottom surface of the display panel and having a folding facilitating structure corresponding to the foldable area; and
an elastic member disposed only on a partial region of a bottom surface of the support member and overlapping the folding facilitating structure,
wherein the folding facilitating structure includes a plurality of openings arranged out of alignment in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the display panel,
wherein at least one of the openings comprises an empty space, and
wherein a thickness of the support member is greater than that of the elastic member.