US 12,457,286 B2
Electronic device including rollable or slidable display
Yeonggyu Yoon, Suwon-si (KR); Dahee Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Moonsun Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Sukdong Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Soohyun Seo, Suwon-si (KR); Wonkyu Sung, Suwon-si (KR); Changhan Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Hyoungtak Cho, 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. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/153,673.
Application 18/153,673 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2021/009895, filed on Jul. 29, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0094371 (KR), filed on Jul. 29, 2020; and application No. 10-2021-0071011 (KR), filed on Jun. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0156116 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. H04M 1/72454 (2021.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC H04M 1/72454 (2021.01) [G06F 1/1607 (2013.01); G06F 1/1624 (2013.01); H04M 1/0235 (2013.01); G06F 2200/1632 (2013.01); H04M 2201/38 (2013.01); H04M 2201/42 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a first housing;
a second housing slidably coupled with respect to the first housing;
a display at least partially fixed to the second housing and comprising an information display region increasing or decreasing according to the sliding of the second housing, the information display region being a part of the display visible from an outside of the electronic device; and
a support member comprising a bendable structure and configured to support at least a part of the display and move according to the sliding of the second housing,
wherein the first housing includes a hidden region exposed or concealed according to the sliding of the second housing,
wherein, when the second housing is at a first position, a size of the information display region is a first size, and the hidden region is covered by the second housing,
wherein, when the second housing slides in a first direction from the first position to a second position, the size of the information display region increases to be greater than the first size, and the hidden region is covered by the second housing, and
wherein, when the second housing slides in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, from the first position to a third position, the size of the information display region decreases to be smaller than the first size, and the hidden region is exposed to the outside of the electronic device.