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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 9173287 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 01, 2014

Foldable display apparatus

Applicant:

Lg Display Co., Ltd., Seoul, KR;

Inventors:

Yong Hee Kim, Seoul, KR;

Dal Jae Lee, Seoul, KR;

Jun Jae Lee, Paju-si, KR;

Su Chan Kwon, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

LG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Seoul, KR;

Attorney:

Dentons US LLP

Primary Examiner:

Hoa C Nguyen

Assistant Examiner:

Binh Tran

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H05K 5/00 (2006.01); H05K 1/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); H05K 7/00 (2006.01); E05D 7/00 (2006.01); E05F 1/08 (2006.01); E05D 3/06 (2006.01); H05K 9/00 (2006.01); H05K 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 1/028 (2013.01); G06F 1/162 (2013.01); G06F 1/1616 (2013.01); G06F 1/1618 (2013.01); G06F 1/1622 (2013.01); G06F 1/1633 (2013.01); G06F 1/1637 (2013.01); G06F 1/1641 (2013.01); G06F 1/1647 (2013.01); G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); H05K 5/0017 (2013.01); H05K 2201/055 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a foldable display apparatus which can stably maintain a bending curvature of a folded flexible display, and can maintain a bending area of an unfolded flexible display in a plane state. The foldable display apparatus includes a link assembly connected between first and second housings to support a bending area of a display panel, and configured to guide bending of the bending area. The link assembly includes a plurality of bending guide members configured to support the bending area, a plurality of link parts connected to both ends of each of the plurality of bending guide members, and a plurality of link connecting members respectively provided between the plurality of link parts, and configured to connect two adjacent link parts.

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