US 12,436,575 B2
Electronic device comprising magnet array
Sangil Park, Suwon-si (KR); Myeongsil Park, Suwon-si (KR); Juwan Park, Suwon-si (KR); Hyein Park, Suwon-si (KR); Jaehyoung You, Suwon-si (KR); Shinhyuk Yoon, Suwon-si (KR); Jaedeok Lim, Suwon-si (KR); Gyuyeong Cho, Suwon-si (KR); Seungbum Choi, 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. 3, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/149,497.
Application 18/149,497 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2021/008522, filed on Jul. 5, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0087967 (KR), filed on Jul. 16, 2020; and application No. 10-2021-0034707 (KR), filed on Mar. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0140971 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H01F 7/02 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1679 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); G06F 1/1656 (2013.01); G06F 1/1681 (2013.01); H01F 7/0278 (2013.01); G06F 1/1616 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a foldable housing comprising:
a hinge structure,
a first housing connected to the hinge structure, the first housing including:
a first surface facing in a first direction;
a second surface facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction; and
a first side surface surrounding at least a portion between the first surface and the second surface, and
a second housing connected to the hinge structure, the second housing including:
a third surface facing in a third direction;
a fourth surface facing in a fourth direction opposite to the third direction; and
a second side surface surrounding at least a portion between the third surface and the fourth surface, in a folded state, the first surface facing the third surface and, in an unfolded state, the third direction being a same direction as the first direction and the fourth direction being a same direction as the second direction;
a flexible display extending from the first surface to the third surface;
a magnet array comprising a plurality of magnets in a three-dimensional multipolar magnetic array, the magnet array including a first magnet array disposed on an edge of the first housing and a second magnet array disposed on an edge of the second housing;
a first guide member disposed between the first side surface of the first housing and the first magnet array and configured to guide a magnetic field formed by the first magnet array toward the first side surface of the first housing; and
a second guide member disposed between the second side surface of the second housing and the second magnet array and configured to guide a magnetic field formed by the second magnet array toward the second side surface of the second housing,
wherein, in the folded state, the first magnet array corresponds to the second magnet array.