Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jongdoo Kim

Hyoseok Na

Daeseung Park

Wanjae Ju

Sanguk Kim

Taihwan Choi

Hanyeop Lee

Gun Lim

In Cheol Nam

Jongmin Kim

Dongyoung Kim

Daeyoung Noh

Noyoung Chung

Wonsub Lim

Gunhee Park

Yohan Moon

Akio Misaka

Dokyun Kim

Donghyun Yoo

Youngkon Lim

Garam Yu

Jaerok Cho

Minjoo Hwang

Bongyeol Lee

Kwangseok Ahn

Wongi Hwang

Ungki Min

Kyoungho Bae

Younghwan Hong

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a key button structure in the housing, and a plurality of antenna elements spaced apart from the key button structure into an inner space. The key button structure includes a flexible printed circuit board, and a dome which is pressed by at least one key button when the at least one key button moves into the inner space, and electrically connected to the flexible printed circuit board. When the key button structure is vertically viewed, an antenna module may overlap a portion of the flexible printed circuit board.

Electronic device including structure in which key button and antenna module overlap

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an electronic component including a coil therein, and a printed circuit board that is disposed to surround at least a part of the electronic component and includes plural slits disposed at preset intervals in at least one of regions facing the electronic component, wherein each of the plural slits may include a central slit portion extended along a center of the slit, and a symmetric slit portion extended to be symmetric with respect to the central slit portion.

Printed circuit board and electronic device including the same

An electronic device includes a flexible display configured to be rollable; at least one camera; and a processor operatively connected to the flexible display and the camera, wherein the processor is configured to: detect operation initiation of the camera; identify a rolling state of the flexible display, based on the operation initiation; rotate the camera toward a designated direction, based on the rolling state of the flexible display; and based on the rolling state of the flexible display, display an image obtained from the designated direction via the camera in a center of the flexible display.

Electronic device having flexible display, and camera module control method therefor

An electronic device according to various embodiments of the disclosure may include: a first housing including a first conductive portion, a first non-conductive portion, and a first segmented portion extending from the first conductive portion, a second housing configured to accommodate at least a portion of the first housing and to guide a slide movement of the first housing, the second housing including a second conductive portion, and a flexible display including a first area connected to the first housing and a second area extending from the first area and configured to be bendable or rollable, wherein, from a slide-in state to a slide-out state of the first housing with respect to the second housing, the first conductive portion and the second conductive portion may be spaced apart from each other, and in the slide-in state of the first housing with respect to the second housing, at least a portion of the first non-conductive portion may overlap the second conductive portion.

Antenna structure and electronic device including same

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes generating a first virtual layout by placing and routing standard cells using a virtual netlist, searching first duplicate pattern regions in the first virtual layout and choosing one of them as a first representative pattern region, performing an OPC operation on the first representative pattern region to obtain a first OPC result, generating an actual layout by placing and routing standard cells using an actual netlist, performing an OPC operation on the actual layout, and forming a photoresist pattern on a substrate using a photomask manufactured based on the actual layout, to which the OPC operation is applied.

Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device

According to an embodiment, an electronic device may comprise an antenna circuit including an antenna, a first capacitor, a switch, a sensor, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to control the switch to connect the first capacitor and the sensor, based on start of booting of the electronic device, determine an initial value of the sensor for determining whether a user grips at least a portion of the electronic device, based on the connection of the first capacitor and the sensor, and control the switch to connect the antenna circuit and the sensor, based on the determination of the initial value of the sensor. Other various embodiments are possible as well.

Electronic device including sensor and method for operating the same

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first mechanical element, a second mechanical element moving with respect to the first mechanical element, a frame including a first frame formed of a conductive material and coupled to the first mechanical element and a second frame formed of a conductive material and coupled to the second mechanical element, a segmentation part formed at the frame to segment each of the first frame and the second frame into a plurality of parts, and a first substrate member which includes a first part and a second part spaced apart from each other, and a first bending part for bendably connecting the first part and the second part and is disposed to move together with at least one of the first mechanical element and the second mechanical element, wherein a plurality of wires arranged at the first substrate member may be arranged not to pass through a first area which is an area of the first bending part of the first substrate member and is adjacent to the segmentation part.

Electronic device including circuit board placed adjacent to frame made of conductive material

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a substrate disposed in an internal space of the housing, a battery disposed on a plane identical with a plane of the substrate, a support structure disposed to at least partially overlap the substrate when the substrate is viewed from a top, an antenna structure configured to include a dielectric substrate and at least one coil member disposed in the dielectric substrate as an antenna disposed to at least partially overlap the battery when the battery is viewed from the top, a tape member configured to include a first region at least partially overlapping the support structure, a second region at least partially overlapping the antenna structure, and a connection part connecting the first region and the second region when the support structure is viewed from the top. The dielectric substrate may include at least one extension part extended from the dielectric substrate and configured to at least partially overlap the connection part when the antenna structure is viewed from the top. The at least one extension part may include a plurality of dummy patterns formed at designated intervals and/or in a designated shape.

Electronic device including antenna structure

Disclosed is an electronic device. An electronic device according to various embodiments may include: a housing including a front face and a rear face opposite the front face; a transparent plate defining the front face of the housing; a display panel disposed below the transparent plate; a fingerprint sensor disposed between the display panel and the rear face of the housing and configured to acquire biometric information about an external object that is within a specified proximity of the transparent plate; and a conductive pattern disposed adjacent to the fingerprint sensor and configured to detect whether the external object is within a specified proximity of the fingerprint sensor.

Electronic device including fingerprint recognition module provided with conductive pattern

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Jongdoo Kim