Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Soohyun Park

Doyoung Kwak

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.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Soohyun Park