US 12,436,571 B2
Electronic device including reinforcing structure
Inkuk Yun, Suwon-si (KR); Myunghoon Kwak, Suwon-si (KR); Sungho Ahn, Suwon-si (KR); Jookwan Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Jihyung Jung, Suwon-si (KR); Yangwook Kim, 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 Jan. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/155,905.
Application 18/155,905 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2022/016143, filed on Oct. 21, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0179254 (KR), filed on Dec. 15, 2021; and application No. 10-2022-0010526 (KR), filed on Jan. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0185340 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1652 (2013.01) [H04M 1/0268 (2013.01); G06F 1/1624 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a first housing;
a second housing movable relative to the first housing;
a flexible display configured to change size of a display area visually exposed to an outside of the electronic device between a first state and a second state,
the flexible display including a rolling portion that is at least partially bent in a process of changing from the first state to the second state; and
a reinforcing structure supporting the flexible display,
wherein the reinforcing structure comprises:
a first supporting member disposed on a rear surface of the flexible display, the first supporting member including a first support surface facing the rear surface of the flexible display and a second support surface opposite to the first support surface, and
a plurality of second supporting members connected to the first supporting member so as to protrude in a direction of the second support surface and form a plurality of recesses, and
a plurality of reinforcing members, at least a portion thereof being positioned in the plurality of recesses, and
wherein, in the rolling portion, a reinforcing member among the plurality of reinforcing members is configured to change shape as being compressed to a shape of the flexible display.