Electronic apparatus with improved functionality
AssigneeCreator Technology B.V.
InventorsHjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema, Rik Kruidhof, Johannes Cornelis Adriaan Hamers
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Abstract
The invention relates to an electronic apparatus comprising a flexible display 12 cooperating with a housing 15 and conceived to be alternated between an at least partially collapsed state and an at least partially extended state, said housing 15 comprising a substantially rigid portion 16a , 16b , 16c conceived to at least partially support an outer region of a surface of the flexible display in the extended state, wherein said rigid portion 16a , 16b , 16c is arranged for at least partially receiving a functional module 18a, 18b, 18c of the electronic apparatus.
Claims8
An electronic apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- a functional module;
- and
- a flexible display cooperating with the housing and arranged to be alternated between an at least partially collapsed state and an at least partially extended state;
- wherein said housing comprises a plurality of substantially rigid portions arranged to at least partially support sides and/or a back of the flexible display in the at least partially extended state,
- said rigid portions are arranged for at least partially receiving said functional module,
- said functional module comprises a touch-sensor arranged on said rigid portions within a normal projection area of an active area of the flexible display,
- said touch sensor comprises a plurality of touch sensor segments corresponding respectively to said rigid portions, and
- said rigid portions comprise means for displacing the respective touch sensor segments during a transition between the collapsed state and the extended state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.