Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jungjin Kim

Chungkeun Yoo

Jongyoon Kim

Hyoseok Na

Jungsik Park

Yongsang Yun

Jongchul Choi

Kwangtai Kim

Minsung Lee

Gidae Kim

Suman Lee

Jongmin Kang

Jaeho Kang

Seunghyun Hwang

Hongsik Park

Hyungsoo Kim

Iksu Jung

Hyunggeun Lee

Sungkyu Hwang

Minwoo Yoo

Daehyeong Park

Moohyun Baek

Jungwon Park

Inkuk Yun

Youngsik Choi

Chungil Choi

Gyonyun Kim

Jonghwan Choi

Minhoon Lee

Dooryong Kim

Youngjin Lee

Inyoul Baek

Doosun Yoon

Giyun Lee

Byungkwan Kim

Jaehwa Noh

An electronic device may include: a housing including a first housing, and a second housing accommodating at least a portion of the first housing and guiding a sliding movement of the first housing; a flexible display including a first display area connected to the first housing, and a second display area extending from the first display area; and a display support member supporting at least a portion of the second display area, wherein the display support member includes a plurality of bars which are arranged side by side and include a first processing structure formed on a side surface, wherein the plurality of bars may include: a first bar including a processing structure having a protrusion or groove shape; and a second bar at least partially facing the processing structure and including a processing structure corresponding to the shape of the processing structure.

Electronic device comprising display support member

An electronic device includes a flexible display slidably coupled to a housing and including a first portion exposed outside the housing and a second portion connected to the first portion and both extendable out of and retractable into the housing together with sliding of the first portion, a first roller inside the housing and rotatable about a first shaft having a radius of curvature, and a second roller which is inside the housing, rotatable about a second shaft spaced apart from the first shaft and being further from the end portion of the housing than the first shaft. Retraction of the flexible display into the housing extends the second portion of the flexible display along the first roller to have a curvature corresponding the radius of curvature of the first roller, together with the second portion of the flexible display being extended along the second roller.

Electronic device having flexible display

An electronic device includes: first and second housings configured to move relative to each other; a display disposed in the first and second housings; and a hinge module rotatably connecting the first and second housings, where the hinge module includes: first and second rotary members connected to the first and second housings; a rotary bracket in which the first and second rotary members are disposed; a first arm member connected to the first rotary member and including a first cam structure; a second arm member connected to the second rotary member and including a second cam structure; and a third cam structure facing the first and second cam structures, where the first and second cam structures include: an outer cam structure having a first cam profile; and an inner cam structure surrounded by the outer cam structure and having a second cam profile different from the first cam profile.

Electronic device comprising hinge module

An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a backlight unit including a plurality of backlights; a driving unit for driving the backlight unit; and a processor for identifying, based on luminance information about each of the plurality of backlights, a number of time intervals in which each of the plurality of backlights is to be turned on from among a plurality of time intervals included in a backlight dimming interval, and controlling the driving unit so that the plurality of backlights are turned on during the identified number of time intervals by variously changing times at which the plurality of backlights are turned on.

Electronic device and control method therefor

Disclosed is an electronic device including a first housing, a second housing, a display disposed on the first housing and the second housing, a first hinge plate coupled to the first housing, a second hinge plate coupled to the second housing, and at least one hinge structure coupled to the first hinge plate and the second hinge plate, wherein the at least one hinge structure comprises a center bracket, a first hinge bracket coupled to the center bracket and configured to rotate in a first direction, a second hinge bracket connected to the center bracket and configured to rotate in a second direction, and at least one hole formed in the center bracket.

Device including hinge structure preventing foreign matter from entering electronic device

An electronic device comprises: a memory to store an image input; a backlight unit; a driving unit to output a driving current to the backlight unit; and a processor to identify, based on a grayscale value of the image, a first intensity of the driving current corresponding to one from among a plurality of time sections of a backlight dimming section, obtaining, based on the identified first intensity, a first control value that allows control of an intensity of the driving current, providing a second control value, which is greater than a first control value to the driving unit, that allows the driving unit to output a driving current of a second intensity that is greater than the first intensity, and provide the first control value to the driving unit that allows the driving unit to output the driving current of the first intensity during the one time section.

A hinge structure includes a first rotary bracket that rotates about a first virtual axis and a second rotary bracket that rotates about a second virtual axis The hinge structure also includes a fixed bracket that includes the first rotary bracket and the second rotary bracket fixed thereto. The hinge further structure includes a first rotary member, a second rotary member, a first arm and a second arm. Additionally, the hinge structure includes a cam part that includes bumpy structures. A first elastic body is mounted on the first rotary member and supports at least one side of the cam part and second elastic body is mounted on the second rotary member and supports at least an opposite side of the cam part. The hinge structure also includes a support bracket that supports the first elastic body and the second elastic body.

Hinge structure and electronic device including the same

An electronic device includes a foldable housing including a first housing structure and a second housing structure that are foldably connected with each other and that form a recess together and a flexible display located in the recess. The flexible display includes a first part located in the first area of the recess and having a first gap from the first portion of the second housing structure in the unfolded state, the first part including a first peripheral portion facing the first portion of the second housing structure and a second part located in the second area of the recess and having a second gap from the second portion of the second housing structure, the second part including a second peripheral portion facing the second portion of the second housing structure, in which the second gap is smaller than the first gap in the unfolded state.

Electronic device including foldable display

Disclosed is a foldable electronic device including a flexible display, a first housing and a second housing, a hinge housing, and a hinge structure. The hinge structure includes a first rotary member coupled to the first housing, a second rotary member coupled to the second housing, a first arm part coupled to the first rotary member and including a first rotary cam, a second arm part coupled to the second rotary member and including a second rotary cam, a fixed cam part including a first fixed cam engaged with the first rotary cam, a second fixed cam engaged with the second rotary cam, and a cam body connecting the first fixed cam and the second fixed cam, a stopper that restricts rotational angles of the arm parts, and an additional structure disposed between the stopper and the fixed cam part.

Hinge structure and foldale electronic device including the same

A hinge module according to one embodiment includes a fixed structure including a central portion, a guide portion having an edge facing an edge of the central portion, and a support portion configured to connect the central portion and the guide portion, wherein an interior space is formed between the central portion and the guide portion, a connecting shaft extending into the interior space through the central portion and including a gear formed on at least a part of an outer circumferential surface of the connecting shaft, and a rotary structure disposed in the interior space, the rotary structure including a circular arc shaped gear having a plurality of gear teeth arranged in a circular arc shape and that are engaged with the gear, wherein the rotary structure rotates about a virtual axis of rotation passing through a center of a circular arc of the circular arc shaped gear.

Hinge module and foldable electronic device including the same

Disclosed is a portable communication device that includes a housing including a first housing portion and a second housing portion at least partially overlapped and slidable with each other; a rollable module accommodated in the housing substantially between the first housing portion and the second housing portion, the rollable module configured to slide the first housing portion or the second housing portion with respect to each other; and a flexible display accommodated in the housing such that, when in a closed state in which the first housing portion or the second housing portion is not slid with respect to each other, a first display portion of the flexible display is visually exposed via a first surface of the housing and a second display portion of the flexible display is visually exposed via a second surface of the housing opposite to the first surface.

Electronic device comprising flexible display, and electronic component arrangement structure applied to same

A portable communication device includes a housing including a first housing portion and a second housing portion; a flexible display accommodated in the first housing portion and the second housing portion; a first hinge plate coupled to the first housing portion; a second hinge plate coupled to the second housing portion; and a first hinge structure disposed between the first hinge plate and the second hinge plate, the first hinge structure including a first plate coupling portion coupled with the first hinge plate, the first plate coupling portion including a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion spaced apart from each other to form a space therebetween; and a second plate coupling portion coupled with the second hinge plate, the second plate coupling portion configured to be, at least partially, engaged in the space between the first protruding portion and the second protruding portion if the housing is unfolded, and to be disengaged from the space if the housing is folded.

Hinge module including detent structure and foldable electronic device including the hinge module

Disclosed is an electronic device including a flexible display. The electronic device may include a first structure including a first plate, the first plate including a first surface and a second surface facing a direction opposite the first surface, a second structure including a second plate facing the second surface of the first plate and a first side wall extending from the second plate, a flexible touch screen display, and a camera device arranged between the first structure and the second structure.

Electronic device including flexible display

Disclosed is a hinge module a hinge structure for a wireless communication device, the hinge structure preventing a rotary structure from being separated from a fixed structure in a flat state and a folded state.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Jungjin Kim