US 12,411,524 B2
Electronic device including structure for supporting display
Byounggyu Park, Suwon-si (KR); Taejeong Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Garam Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Kidoc Son, Suwon-si (KR); Kyunghwan Song, Suwon-si (KR); and Hyunsuk Choi, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jun. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/217,092.
Application 18/217,092 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2023/005181, filed on Apr. 17, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0069612 (KR), filed on Jun. 8, 2022; and application No. 10-2022-0100979 (KR), filed on Aug. 11, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0403807 A1, Dec. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1652 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a first housing;
a second housing coupled to the first housing so as to be slidable with respect to the first housing in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction;
a display including a planar region disposed on the second housing and a deformable region that contacts the planar region, wherein the deformable region is exposed to an outside as the second housing moves in the first direction or disposed in the first housing as the second housing moves in the second direction; and
a support plate configured to support the display;
wherein the support plate includes:
rigid regions;
a flexible region disposed between the rigid regions, the flexible region including a plurality of openings spaced apart from each other and having a length in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction;
a first layer including a plurality of first openings extending in the third direction in the flexible region; and
a second layer disposed on the first layer and including a plurality of second openings partially overlapping each of the plurality of first openings in the flexible region;
wherein a distance from one end to another end of one first opening of the plurality of first openings facing the third direction is different from a distance from the one end of the one first opening to one end of both ends of one second opening of the plurality of second openings overlapping the one first opening, the one end of the one second opening being near to the another end of the first opening.