Nokia Technologies Oy

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Nokia Corporation

Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Mikael Kontkanen

Ilpo Kalevi Kauhaniemi

Kalevi Salo

Vesa Nevalainen

Vicente Calvo Alonso

Esa-Sakari Maatta

Esa Määttä

Pekka S Lonka

Esa-Sakari Määttä

Pasi Tuomo Antero Kemppinen

Heikki Hakamaki

Jussi Ropo

Heikki Tapani Alakontiola

Miika Rummukainen

Pekka Lonka

According to various, but not necessarily all examples of the disclosure, there may be provided an apparatus and method wherein the apparatus comprises: a substrate configured to support a bendable display wherein the substrate comprises at least one bendable portion configured to enable the substrate to be moved between an open configuration and a closed configuration; and wherein the at least one bendable portion comprises a plurality of rod members and the rod members comprise interlocking portions wherein the interlocking portions comprise a projection configured to fit into a corresponding recess on an adjacent rod member so as to restrict relative movement of the rod members when the substrate is in the closed configuration.

Apparatus and method of providing an apparatus comprising a bendable portion

A method comprising determining that a flexible display, which comprises a flexural display region between a non-flexural display region and an opposite non-flexural display region, is configured in a closed configuration, determining to cause display of a notification, determining a notification display region based, at least in part, on the closed configuration, and causing display of a representations of the notification in the notification display region is disclosed.

Causing display of a notification

A bendable device is provided. The device comprises: a display stack which comprises a window layer and at least one active layer, and a body which comprises an extendable bending region. The active layers are fixed to the window layer at the bottom side of the window layer. Edges of the window layer extend outwards in relation to the at least one active layer at two or more sides of the display stack, and the window layer is rigidly fixed to the body at the edges which extend outwards at the bottom side of the window layer. A method for assembling a bendable device comprising a display is disclosed.

Bendable device with a window top layer and a body having extendable bending region

A device is disclosed comprising: a first portion; a second portion; a hinge element between the first portion and the second portion; a magnetic sensor disposed on the first portion configured to measure an ambient magnetic field; a non-extensible element configured between the first portion and the second portion, and fixed with respect to the second portion; a magnetic element configured on a free end of the non-extensible element so that a rotation of the first portion with respect to the second portion causes relative motion between the magnetic element and the magnetic sensor, thereby causing a change in a magnetic field between the magnetic element and the magnetic sensor; wherein an angle of fold between the two portions is calculated based on the change in the magnetic field as determined by the magnetic sensor.

Folding angle sensing of a foldable device

An apparatus and method wherein the apparatus includes a bendable display; a substrate configured to support the bendable display wherein the substrate includes at least one bendable portion configured to enable the bendable display to be moved between an open configuration and a closed configuration; and a support structure provided adjacent to the bendable portion of the substrate configured to provide a rigid support for the bendable portion of the substrate, at least, when the display is in the closed configuration.

An apparatus including a first electrical display; and a second electrical display movably connected to the first electrical display between a first configuration and a second configuration. In the first configuration the first and second electrical displays generally face each other. In the second configuration the first and second electrical displays do not generally face each other and are viewable from a same direction. The first and second electrical displays are sized and shaped such that in the first configuration a portion of the second electrical display is visible.

Overlapping displays

In accordance with the exemplary embodiments there is at least an apparatus including a multi-layer graphical user interface stack, a piezoelectric material disposed on a suspending member and attached to the multi-layer graphical user interface stack by a first bonding member, in which the suspending member includes a lateral section substantially perpendicular to a direction of actuation of the piezoelectric material, and vertical sections outboard of the lateral section extending substantially parallel to the direction of actuation and configured for mounting to a frame of a host device.

Structure for a tactile display

A telephone comprises a first part () and a second part () attached thereto, said second part being movable in relation to the first part between a first position and a second position. The telephone further comprises in the first part a radio transmitter/receiver () and a connected antenna (), and in the second part an arrangement for attaching the battery () to the second part.

Telescopic telephone

A telephone including a first part and a second part attached thereto, the second part being movable in relation to the first part between a first position and a second position. The telephone further includes in the first part a radio transmitter/receiver and a connected antenna, and in the second part an arrangement for attaching the battery to the second part.

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Ilmarinen, Finland

Mikael Kontkanen