US 11,116,086 B2Granted

Electronic apparatus

AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.

InventorsTaeHyun Kim, Donghwan Shim, Seungmin Lee, Sunhee Lee, Jonghyun Choi

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Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes a display panel including a first surface portion, a second surface portion, and a third surface portion which is disposed between the first surface portion and the second surface portion. The electronic apparatus operates in one of a first mode and a second mode. When the electronic apparatus operates in the first mode, the third surface portion is bent from the first surface portion, and the second surface portion is bent from the third surface portion. When the electronic apparatus operates in the second mode, the first surface portion, the second surface portion, and the third surface portion are substantially parallel to each other.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An electronic apparatus comprising:

a display panel comprising a first surface portion, a second surface portion, a third surface portion and a fourth surface portion, the third and fourth surface portions are disposed between the first surface portion and the second surface portion, wherein each of the first surface portion, the second surface portion, the third surface portion, and the fourth surface portion displays an image;
and
a window disposed on the display panel,
wherein the display panel operates in one of a first mode and a second mode,
in the first mode, the third surface portion and the fourth surface portion are bent from the first surface portion and are orthogonal to each other, and the second surface portion is bent from the third surface portion and the fourth surface portion, and
in the second mode, the first surface portion, the second surface portion, and the third surface portion are substantially parallel to each other while the fourth surface portion maintains a bent state from the first surface portion.

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Facts

Application: 16/794,921Filed 19 Feb 2020
Priority: KR 10-2019-00380601 Apr 2019
Published: US 2020/0315038 A11 Oct 2020
Granted: 7 Sep 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 1/1626
For portable computers: with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
G06F 1/165
Including at least an additional display: the additional display being small, e.g. for presenting status information
G06F 1/1652
Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing: the display being flexible,…
G06F 1/1656
Constructional details or arrangements of portable computers not specific to the type of enclosures covered by groups G06F1/1615 - G06F1/1626:…

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