Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hyunju Hong

Yangwook Kim

Myunghoon Kwak

Jungsik Park

Byounguk Yoon

Jooyoung Kang

Jookwan Lee

Wonho Lee

Joungmin Cho

Junyoung Choi

Hojin Jung

Yongyoun Kim

Yeonggyu Yoon

Sanghyuk Park

Moonchul Shin

Sungho Ahn

Woosung Chun

Nakhyun Choi

Hyunggwang Kang

Soohyun Seo

Inkuk Yun

Raetae Kim

Jihyung Jung

Yongjin Kwon

Kibeom Kim

Jinwoo Kim

Seungjoon Lee

Woosup Lee

Youngseong Kim

Joongyeon Cho

Hyunsuk Kim

Jaeyoung Shin

Hyoungtak Cho

Jungchul An

Dohyung Ha

Minsoo Kim

Youngmin Kang

Wonkyu Sung

Sunghyup Lee

Jihea Park

Seungki Choi

Woongeun Kwak

Junhyuk Kim

Moonsun Kim

Gisoo Lim

Soyoung Lee

Namsu Kim

Jaebong Chun

Sungsoo Kim

Hyungjin Kim

Youngjae Kim

Sehwan Choi

Seunggil Jeon

Kwonho Son

Hyungsup Byeon

Donghun Shin

Mincheol Seo

Jaedeok Lim

Geonsoo Kim

Taeyeong Kim

Sangyoup Seok

Seungbum Choi

Yeonwoo Kim

Seongyong An

Moonjeong Kim

Yoonjung Kim

Myeongsu Oh

Sangyong Kim

Gun Lim

Heeseok Jung

Seonghoon Kim

Eric Huang

Dohun Cha

Sungkoo Park

Chongo Yoon

George Wallner

Duho Chu

Hyunwoo Lee

Hyunchul Kim

Donghyun Yeom

Minwoo Lee

Minwoo Yoo

Dongyeon Kim

Yi Yang

Jieun Myung

Sukgi Hong

Minsung Lee

Soonho Hwang

Kwang-Tai Kim

Minuk Kim

Joon Young Heo

Sangil Park

Jisang Park

Sangeun Lee

Kyuyoung Kim

Soojung Kim

Wonjoon Choi

Jungwon Kim

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a first display slidable through the housing and having at least a portion exposed to the outside through the housing, wherein the area exposed to the outside, of the first display is changeable on the basis of the sliding through the housing, a second display spaced apart from the at least an exposed portion of the first display by a predetermined distance, and disposed on a plane together with the at least an exposed portion, and at least one processor disposed within the housing, wherein the at least one processor is configured to display first content on the first display and display second content on the second display.

Electronic device including plurality of displays and method of operating same

According to various embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a first housing including a first space formed through a first side member comprising a first side, a second side extending in a direction perpendicular to the first side, and a third side extending from the second side in parallel with the first side; a second housing slidably coupled to the first housing along a first direction and comprising a second space formed through a second side member; a bendable support connected to the first housing, is, in a slide-in state, at least partially accommodated into the second space, and in a slide-out state, forms a side at least partially coplanar with the first housing; a flexible display supported through the first housing and the bendable support; at least one electronic component disposed in the second space and in communication with an external environment through a first opening formed in at least a portion of the second side member in the slide-in state; and a bendable electrical connection member configured to connect the electronic component to the first space, wherein in the slide-in state, at least a portion of the first side and the third side are accommodated in the second space so as not to be visible from the outside, and the at least one electronic component may be disposed at a position not interfered with by the first side and/or the second side in the slide-in state.

Electronic device comprising electronic component arrangement structure

An electronic device, according to various embodiments of the present disclosure, may comprise: a housing, a first circuit board disposed in the housing; flexible circuit boards electrically connected to the first circuit board, coil antennas disposed inside the housing and including a plurality of antennas having conductive patterns provided and configured to generate magnetic fields, a shielding layer disposed below a first antenna from among the plurality of antennas and metal shields disposed about side surfaces of the coil antennas and configured to shield a magnetic field in a first direction from among magnetic fields formed by the coil antennas.

Electronic device including coil antenna

An electronic device may output, on at least a portion of a flexible display, an affordance for adjusting a size of an exposed area of a flexible display, receive information about a target size based on the affordance, and control the flexible display to have the size of the exposed size correspond to the target size.

Method of adjusting size of exposed area of flexible display and electronic device performing the method

An example electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing connected with the first housing and configured to perform a sliding operation, a driving device that adjusts the sliding operation, a flexible display, at least one sensor, and at least one processor. The processor is configured to control the electronic device to display content via at least a portion of a first area of the flexible display, identify an aspect ratio of the content, obtain orientation information of the electronic device using the sensor, and identify size information of a second area of the flexible display capable of maximally displaying the content with the identified aspect ratio of the content based on the obtained orientation information, the first area and the second area being one surface of an exposed area of the flexible display, and the second area being an area extended or reduced from the first area.

Electronic device comprising flexible display and operating method thereof

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing slidably coupled to the first housing, a display of which at least a part is fixed to the second housing so that an information display region, which is a part of the electronic device visible on the outside, increases or decreases according to the sliding of the second housing, and a support member including a bendable structure, supporting at least a part of the display, and moving according to the sliding of the second housing, wherein, the information display region increases if the second housing slides in a first direction at a reference position at which the end of the second housing and the end of the first housing are substantially aligned, and the information display region decreases if the second housing slides in a second direction opposite to the first direction at the reference position.

Electronic device including rollable or slidable display

An electronic device may include a first housing, a second housing configured to change a position relative to the first housing based on sliding of the first housing, a flexible display including a first area and a bendable or rollable second area extending from the first area, a supporting structure coupled with the flexible display to support at least a portion of the flexible display and including a plurality of bars, and a guide rail configured to guide a movement of the plurality of bars based on the sliding of the first housing. Each of the plurality of bars may include a frame and a header formed on an end of the frame. When the second area of the flexible display is bent or rolled, the headers of adjacent bars may be disposed to at least partially overlap each other. Each of the headers may include at least one pole at least partially received in the guide rail.

Flexible display, structure supporting the flexible display, and electronic device including the same

An electronic device may include: a main substrate; a frame having at least one part exposed outside the electronic device, and formed from a metal material; a flexible printed circuit board having at least one part disposed adjacent to the frame; a first connecting part for electrically connecting the flexible printed circuit board and the main substrate; a second connecting part formed to be bendable to electrically connect the flexible printed circuit board and the frame; and an integrated circuit disposed on, directly or indirectly, the flexible printed circuit board. Various other embodiments are possible.

Antenna power feeding structure comprising flexible printed circuit board, and electronic device comprising same

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing including a first space formed by a first side member including a first side, a second side extending in a direction perpendicular to the first side, and a third side extending from the second side in parallel with the first side, a second housing which is slidably coupled to the first housing in a first direction and includes a second space, a bendable member which is connected to the first housing, is at least partially accommodated into the second space in a slide-in state, and forms a plane that is at least partially identical to the first housing in a slide-out state, a flexible display including a first portion disposed to be viewable from an outside in the slide-in state and a second portion which extends from the first portion and is accommodated into the second space through the bendable member so as not to be at least partially viewable from the outside, and a component assembly which is disposed in the first space to correspond to the outside through an opening formed in at least a portion of the first housing and comprises at least two electronic components, wherein the opening may be covered by at least a portion of the second housing in the slide-in state, and in the slide-in state, the first side and the third side may be accommodated into the second space so as not to be viewable from the outside.

According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an electronic device may include: a first housing, a second housing, a first support, a second support, a flexible display, a motor assembly including a motor, and a first thermal conductive member including a thermally conductive material. The second housing may be slidable relative to the first housing. The first support may be positioned in the first housing. The second support may be positioned in the second housing. The flexible display may include a first area and a second area configured to extend from the first area. The first area may be disposed on the first support and be configured to be visible to the outside of the electronic device. The second area may be configured to, during sliding of the second housing, be withdrawn from or inserted into an inner space of the electronic device while being supported by the second support. The motor assembly may be connected to the second support through a bracket disposed on the second support and be configured to provide a drive force for sliding of the second housing. The first thermal conductive member may be disposed on the first support. Based on the second area being inserted in the inner space of the electronic device, the bracket may be configured to be in contact with the first thermal conductive member.

Electronic device including sliding structure and flexible display

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing, the first housing slidable with respect to the second housing, a flexible display including a first display area and a second display area extending from the first display area and bendable or rollable, a battery disposed in the first housing or the second housing, and a supporting structure supporting at least a portion of the flexible display. The supporting structure includes a first area overlapping the battery and a second area extending from the first area. The first area of the supporting structure has a first thickness, and the second area of the supporting structure has a second thickness larger than the first thickness.

Flexible display and electronic device including same

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a foldable housing which has a hinge structure including a first housing and a second housing, the first housing is connected to the hinge structure and includes a first surface facing a first direction, a second surface facing a second direction opposite the first direction, and a first side surrounding the space between the first second surface, and the second housing is connected to the hinge structure and includes a third surface facing a third direction, a fourth surface facing a fourth direction opposite the third direction, and a second side, the first surface facing the third surface when the electronic device is in a folded state, and the third direction being the same as the first direction when the electronic device is in an unfolded state, a flexible display extending from the first and third surface, and a magnet array.

Electronic device comprising magnet array

An electronic device including a reinforcing structure is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing movable relative to the first housing, a flexible display supported by at least one of the first housing or the second housing, and a reinforcing structure disposed on a rear surface of the flexible display, wherein the flexible display may include a rolling portion that is at least partially bent in a process of changing from the first state to the second state, and the reinforcing structure may include a support coupled to the flexible display so as to cover a rear surface of the rolling portion.

Electronic device including reinforcing structure

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a foldable housing including a hinge structure, a first housing connected to the hinge structure and including a first side wall structure and a first bracket located inside the first side wall structure, and a second housing connected to the hinge structure and including a second side wall structure and a second bracket located inside the second side wall structure, the second housing being folded with the first housing about the hinge structure, a display panel extending from the first housing to the second housing across the hinge structure and configured to output a screen, and a second antenna structure including a second ground and a second feeding portion disposed on the second side wall structure of the second housing, wherein the first side wall structure of the first housing and the second side wall structure of the second housing may include a first metal material, and the first bracket of the first housing includes the first metal material, and the second bracket of the second housing may include a second metal material.

Electronic device including bracket formed of metal material

An electronic device includes a display module including a first region and a second region which extends from the first region and tactically senses an input via a conductive layer, a first structure facing the display module, a second structure slidably connected to the first structure, and slidable together with the display module along the first structure, and a back cover forming a rear surface of the electronic device and including a window region, and the conductive layer which is on the window region. The second structure which slides towards and away the first structure respectively closes and opens the electronic device, the electronic device which is closed defines the front surface including the first region, together with the second region tactically exposed at the window region, and the electronic device which is open defines the front surface including the first region and a portion of the second region.

Input sensing slidable structure of flexible display module and electronic device including the same

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Hyunju Hong