Flexible Display Hinge Mechanism for Grip and Viewability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic apparatuses with flexible displays face challenges in providing good grip performance and operability while maintaining a compact size and viewability, as the grip portion is often covered by the monitor, potentially degrading usability.
Innovation Solution
An electronic apparatus with a flexible display that includes a grip portion and an operation portion, featuring a bending mechanism allowing the display to be rotated and unfolded, with a coupling portion that keeps the display separate from the grip portion in the accommodated state, enabling parallel display portions in the unfolded state for improved grip and operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If the monitor portion wraps around the camera portion and grip portion to achieve compact size, then the apparatus size is reduced, but the grip performance and operability are degraded due to lack of grippable areas
Solution Approach 1:
The display is designed to be flexible and changeable in configuration, allowing it to transition between wrapped and unwrapped states. This dynamic capability enables the display to adapt between compact storage mode and operational mode, resolving the contradiction between compact size and grip performance.
Solution Approach 2:
The display is divided into multiple display portions that can be independently positioned and configured. This segmentation allows the display to be unwrapped from the grip portion during operation, providing both compact size when wrapped and adequate grip areas when separated.
2Area of stationary object
If the display portion is made large to improve viewability, then the display size increases, but the apparatus size increases reducing portability
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible display allows the apparatus to dynamically change its configuration between compact and expanded states. During portability, the display wraps around to minimize apparatus volume. During use, the display can be unwrapped to provide large viewable area, resolving the contradiction between display size and apparatus size.
Solution Approach 2:
The display utilizes three-dimensional wrapping around the apparatus body to achieve compact storage, then transitions to a two-dimensional unfolded state for viewing. This dimensional transformation allows the same display to provide both compact apparatus size and large display area at different times.
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AI summary
In an electronic apparatus, a display at least partially has flexibility, includes a plurality of display portions, and includes a bending portion at each of boundaries of the display portions. An electronic apparatus includes, near each bending portion, a hinge portion that relatively rotatably couples two display portions and is configured to be bendable at each bending portion as a start point in response to rotation of each hinge portion. A main body coupling member rotatably couples the display to the main body portion. The display is able to transition to an accommodated state in which the display overlaps at a position that is different from the grip portion inside an outer shape of the main body portion and an unfolded state in which the plurality of display portions are unfolded in a parallel and same direction.