US 12,137,180 B2
Outer flexible screen mobile electronic terminal and hinge assembly thereof
Guanlun Cheng, Hangzhou (CN); and Chenqi Zhou, Hangzhou (CN)
Assigned to HANGZHOU AMPHENOL PHOENIX TELECOM PARTS CO., LTD., Zhejiang (CN)
Appl. No. 17/773,423
Filed by Hangzhou Amphenol Phoenix Telecom Parts Co., Ltd., Hangzhou (CN)
PCT Filed Oct. 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/120313
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 29, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/082891, PCT Pub. Date May 6, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 201911057639.2 (CN), filed on Nov. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0007110 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H04M 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC H04M 1/0216 (2013.01) [H04M 1/0268 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An outer flexible screen mobile electronic terminal, comprising a hinge, a first side housing and a second side housing, and a flexible screen is arranged on the outer side of the outer flexible screen mobile electronic terminal, wherein a composite supporting layer of the flexible screen is provided between a first side housing and a second side housing of the outer flexible screen mobile electronic terminal, a supporting plate of the flexible screen is provided on the first side housing and the second side housing respectively, and the flexible screen supporting plate of the second side housing is arranged as a sliding plate; the composite supporting layer comprises a bendable tensile layer and a bendable and flattenable supporting layer of the bendable tensile layer, the composite supporting layer is provided with a first side and a second side on two opposite sides respectively, so as to be connected to the first side and the second side of the outer flexible screen mobile electronic terminal, respectively, the second side of the composite supporting layer is connected with the sliding plate, and the sliding plate is connected with an elastic mechanism that pushes or pulls the sliding plate toward the second side; the flexible screen and the flexible screen supporting plate of the first side housing, the composite supporting layer, and the flexible screen supporting plate of the second side housing are connected;
the hinge is located below the composite supporting layer, and comprises a middle supporting portion, a first side connection portion, a second side connection portion and a synchronous reverse rotation connecting mechanism, the first side connection portion and the second side connection portion are rotatably mounted on a first side and a second side of a middle supporting portion respectively, the outer side of the middle supporting portion is provided with an arc fitting the bending of the arc of the flexible screen, and the first side and the second side of the middle supporting portion are respectively provided with gratings, the first side connection portion and the second side connection portions are configured to be in the shape of a comb, the comb shape of the first side connection portion comprises a fixed connection portion and combs that are inserted into the gratings of a first side of a middle connection portion respectively, the comb shape of the second side connection portion comprises a fixed connection portion and combs that are inserted into the gratings of a second side of the middle connection portion respectively, the first side connection portion is connected with the second side connection portion by the synchronous reverse rotation connecting mechanism configured to rotate in reverse synchronously.