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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 9603271 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2014

Foldable display apparatus

Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Dal Jae Lee, Seoul, KR;

Su Chan Kwon, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:

Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Lisa Lea Edmonds

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 5/02 (2006.01); H05K 5/00 (2006.01); G09F 9/30 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H05K 1/02 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 5/0226 (2013.01); G06F 1/1641 (2013.01); G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); G09F 9/301 (2013.01); H04M 1/0268 (2013.01); H05K 5/0017 (2013.01); H05K 5/0021 (2013.01); G06F 1/1681 (2013.01); H04M 1/022 (2013.01); H04M 1/0216 (2013.01); H05K 1/028 (2013.01); H05K 2201/10128 (2013.01); H05K 2201/2009 (2013.01);
Abstract

A foldable display apparatus including a display panel configured to include a display area including a first display area, a second display area, and a bending area, a first panel supporting member configured to support a first area of the display panel corresponding to the first display area, a second panel supporting member configured to support a second area of the display panel corresponding to the second display area, and a folding part connected between the first and second panel supporting members to overlap the bending area and configured to guide the display panel for the display panel to be folded or unfolded to a plane state with respect to the bending area. The folding part adjusts a distance between the first and second panel supporting members for the display panel to be folded or unfolded.

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