Display device
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorsSung Chul Choi, Young Eun Oh, Han Sun Ryou, Man Sik Myeong
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Abstract
A display device reduces or minimizes a stress applied to a display panel in a folded state. The display device includes a display panel including a bendable area; and a panel support portion combined to the display panel and including a multi-joint member to support the bendable area, and the multi-joint member includes: a plurality of hard material portions sequentially arranged in a first direction, mutually combined to be rotated with respect to one another, and including a first surface arranged toward the bendable area; and a soft material portion contacting the first surface and fixed to the plurality of hard material portions.
Claims16
A display device comprising:
- a display panel comprising a bendable part;
- and
- a panel support portion combined to the display panel and comprising a multi-joint member to support the bendable part,
- wherein the multi-joint member comprises:
- a plurality of hard material portions sequentially arranged in a first direction, mutually combined to be rotated with respect to one another, each of the plurality of hard material portions comprising a first surface arranged toward the bendable part;
- and
- a soft material portion contacting the first surface of each of the plurality of hard material portions and fixed to each of the plurality of hard material portions, and
- wherein the soft material portion directly contacts the bendable part;
- wherein each of the hard material portions includes two second surfaces connected to respective edges of the first surface, and a third surface opposite to the first surface, and the soft material portion is on the two second surfaces and the third surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.