US 12,133,344 B2
Multi-directional multi-joint turning piece and display device thereof
Chien-Feng Chang, Hsinchu (TW); Tsung-Huai Lee, Hsinchu (TW); Yu-Hung Hsiao, Hsinchu (TW); Chan-Peng Lin, Hsinchu (TW); and Shang-Chien Wu, Hsinchu (TW)
Assigned to STAR ASIA VISION CORPORATION, Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by STAR ASIA VISION CORPORATION, Hsinchu (TW)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/533,812.
Application 18/533,812 is a division of application No. 17/396,103, filed on Aug. 6, 2021, granted, now 11,895,787.
Claims priority of application No. 110113036 (TW), filed on Apr. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0107691 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. H05K 5/02 (2006.01); F16C 11/04 (2006.01); H05K 5/00 (2006.01); E05D 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 5/0217 (2013.01) [F16C 11/04 (2013.01); H05K 5/0017 (2013.01); E05D 3/06 (2013.01); E05Y 2999/00 (2024.05)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising at least two display modules and at least two multi-directional multi-joint turning pieces, the display modules include a first display module and a second display module, the multi-directional multi-joint turning pieces include a first multi-directional multi-joint turning piece and a second multi-directional multi-joint turning piece, the first multi-directional multi-joint turning piece and the second multi-directional multi-joint turning piece are symmetrically arranged at both ends of a corresponding side of the first display module and the second display module to provide the first display module and the second display module are symmetrically unfolded or folded with the side as the center, the second display module includes a guiding device arranged on the back of the second display module and adjacent to the side, the guiding device is configured to guide the first display module, wherein the multi-directional multi-joint turning piece includes a first coupling piece, a first turning piece, a second turning piece, and a third turning piece, a second coupling piece and the guiding device, the first coupling piece is pivoted to the first turning piece, the first turning piece is pivoted to the second turning piece, the second turning piece is pivoted to the third turning piece, the third turning piece is pivoted to the second coupling piece, when the first display module and the second display module are switched between folding and unfolding, the first turning piece pivots relative to the first coupling piece and the second turning piece, and the third turning piece pivots relative to the second coupling piece and the second turning piece, when the display module is switched from folded to unfolded, the other side of the first display module relative to the side is pulled, the side of the first display module is guided by one end of the guiding device and slides to the other end, the first display module and the second display module are symmetrically unfolded with the side edge as the center, and the first display module and the second display module form a seamless display device.