US 12,464,059 B2
Foldable mobile terminal
Li Liao, Dongguan (CN); Bo Huang, Shanghai (CN); Tao Huang, Dongguan (CN); Ding Zhong, Dongguan (CN); Zhixiao Xu, Shanghai (CN); and Shangyun Wang, Dongguan (CN)
Assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Guangdong (CN)
Filed on Jul. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/866,770.
Application 17/866,770 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2020/139959, filed on Dec. 28, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 202010059260.1 (CN), filed on Jan. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0353355 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04M 1/02 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC H04M 1/0216 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1616 (2013.01); G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); H04M 1/0268 (2013.01); H04M 2201/38 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A foldable mobile terminal, comprising:
a rotating shaft mechanism;
two housings; and
a flexible display, wherein
the two housings are respectively disposed on two sides of the rotating shaft mechanism, and the flexible display is embedded into the two housings and covers the rotating shaft mechanism,
the rotating shaft mechanism comprises a main shaft and two rotation parts respectively disposed on two sides of the main shaft, and by rotating around the main shaft, the two rotation parts are configured to form an accommodating space for accommodating the flexible display,
a housing, of the two housings, has an accommodating slot on a side close to the rotating shaft mechanism, the two rotation parts are respectively accommodated in the accommodating slots of the two housings, and the housing is configured to rotate around the main shaft to drive a rotation part of the two rotation parts on a same side to rotate,
the flexible display is fixed to the two housings and the two rotation parts, and a part of the flexible display that is opposite to the main shaft is bent freely with rotation of the housing, and
each rotation part of the two rotation parts comprise:
a connection part; and
a support plate, wherein
one end of the connection part is rotatably connected to the main shaft, and the other end thereof is fixed to the housing disposed on a same side, and
the support plate is disposed on a side of the connection part that is close to the flexible display, and the flexible display is fixedly connected to the support plate, wherein
a first are structure is disposed on the support plate, a second are structure is disposed on the housing on a same side, and the first are structure is rotatably connected to the second are structure, and
the first are structure is an are plate-like structure, and the second are structure is a solid columnar structure with an are surface, or the second are structure is an are plate-like structure, and the first are structure is a solid columnar structure with an are surface.