US 12,481,331 B2
Electronic device including sound unit
Choonghyo Park, Suwon-si (KR); Kiwon Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Myoungsung Sim, Suwon-si (KR); Byounghee Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Woojin Cho, Suwon-si (KR); Joonrae Cho, Suwon-si (KR); and Hochul Hwang, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/894,566.
Application 17/894,566 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2022/008179, filed on Jun. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0098307 (KR), filed on Jul. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0029681 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H04R 1/02 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H04R 1/28 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1677 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); G06F 1/1681 (2013.01); G06F 1/1688 (2013.01); H04R 1/021 (2013.01); H04R 1/28 (2013.01); H04R 2400/11 (2013.01); H04R 2499/11 (2013.01); H04R 2499/15 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a first housing comprising a first surface and a first side surface connected to the first surface;
a second housing comprising a second surface and a second side surface connected to the second surface, the second housing being configured to move relative to the first housing between a closed state in which the second surface faces the first surface and the second side surface faces the first side surface, and an open state in which the second surface moves along the first surface and the second side surface moves along the first side surface;
a display disposed on an opposite side of the first surface and an opposite side of the second surface, the display having a first area in the closed state and having a second area greater than the first area in the open state; and
a sound unit configured to output or receive a sound, the sound unit being disposed in the second housing such that the sound is radiated in a first direction through the second side surface in the open state and radiated in a second direction different from the first direction along the first side surface in the closed state,
wherein the first housing further comprises a third surface disposed opposite the first surface and connected to the first side surface, and
wherein the third surface guides the sound radiated along the first side surface in the closed state.