Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Doyoung Kwak

Yongsang Yun

Minwoo Yoo

Youngmin Ji

Yasuhiro Nishida

Daesik Kim

Jongil Kim

Kyonghyong Kim

Jeongtaek Kim

Inyoul Seo

Byunghun Woo

Soohyun Park

A slidable electronic device having a side-surface protruding/retracting structure is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing slidably coupled to the first housing, a flexible display panel located between the first housing and the second housing, a protruding/retracting member protruding between side-surface portions of the first housing and the second housing, formed on the side surface of the flexible display panel, or is recessed from the space to the inside of the electronic device, an interlocking structure that changes the sliding operation to a side-surface directional movement of the electronic device, a flexible connection member which has one end coupled to one end of the protruding/retracting member and the other end connected to the interlocking structure, and a guide which changes, to vertical movement, the side-surface directional movement of the connection member, generated by the action of the interlocking structure.

Slideable electronic device

A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel, and a backlight unit configured to emit light to the liquid crystal panel. The backlight unit includes a substrate, a light emitting diode (LED) provided on the substrate and configured to emit light, and a refractive cover formed by being provided at a plurality of points separated from each other, and configured to enclose the LED.

Display apparatus and method for manufacturing the same

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Doyoung Kwak