Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Display device
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Application No.: US15717741Application Date: 2017-09-27
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Publication No.: US10390444B2Publication Date: 2019-08-20
- Inventor: Sung Chul Choi , Han Sun Ryou , Man Sik Myeong
- Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Yongin-si
- Assignee: Samsung Display Co. Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Display Co. Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Yongin-si
- Agency: Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP
- Priority: KR10-2016-0146031 20161103
- Main IPC: H05K5/00
- IPC: H05K5/00 ; H05K5/02 ; G06F1/16 ; G09F9/30 ; G02F1/1333

Abstract:
A display device reduces or minimizes a stress received by a display panel in a folded state. The display device includes a display panel including a bendable area; and a panel support portion combined to the display panel and including a multi-joint member to support the bendable area, and the multi-joint member includes a plurality of joint portions sequentially arranged in a first direction and combined to each other to rotate with respect to one another, and at least one of the joint portions includes an elastic plate at an edge of a support side arranged toward the bendable area.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180124931A1 DISPLAY DEVICE Public/Granted day:2018-05-03
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