Display device
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorsSung Chul CHOI, Han Sun RYOU, Man Sik MYEONG
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Abstract
A display device reduces or minimizes a stress received by 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 joint portions sequentially arranged in a first direction and combined to each other to rotate with respect to one another, and at least one of the joint portions includes an elastic plate at an edge of a support side arranged toward the bendable area.
Claims12
A display device comprising:
- a display panel including a bendable area;
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- a panel support portion combined to the display panel and comprising a multi-joint member to support the bendable area,
- wherein the multi-joint member includes a plurality of joint portions sequentially arranged in a first direction and combined to each other to rotate with respect to one another, and at least one of the joint portions comprises an elastic plate at an edge of a support side arranged toward the bendable area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.