Flexible Display Support Structure for Sliding Housing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Deformable electronic devices with flexible displays face challenges in maintaining surface quality and efficient component arrangement due to the sliding mechanism, which causes sagging and uneven display areas during transition between slid-in and slid-out states.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device design featuring a first and second housing with a bendable member that supports the flexible display, allowing it to expand and contract smoothly, and a support assembly that ensures continuous display support and efficient component arrangement by pressing the second housing in the slid-out direction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of moving object
If the second housing is slidable to expand display area, then the display area is increased, but the flexible display sags and surface quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
A support assembly is introduced as an intermediary component between the first housing and the second housing. This support assembly includes a support member that extends from the first housing to support the flexible display in the second space, preventing sagging while allowing the second housing to slide for display expansion.
Solution Approach 2:
The support member extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction (sliding direction), creating a new spatial dimension for support. This vertical extension allows the flexible display to be supported at multiple heights, maintaining surface quality during the sliding expansion operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If electronic components are arranged in slidable housings, then functional elements are differentiated, but efficient arrangement of components with different mounting spaces becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The internal space is segmented into a first space in the first housing and a second space in the second housing. This segmentation allows different electronic components to be arranged in separate spatial zones, each optimized for specific functions, while the slidable connection maintains overall device coherence.
Solution Approach 2:
The support member extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, creating vertical spatial separation. This allows electronic components to be arranged at different heights and positions within the housings, improving component layout efficiency and reducing interference between components with different mounting space requirements.
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AI summary
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing including a first space, a second housing including a second space, the second housing coupled to the first housing such that the second housing is slidable in a first direction, and a bendable member connected to the first housing. The bendable member is partially accommodated in the second space in a slid-in state and is at least partially coplanar to the first housing in a slid-out state. The electronic device includes a flexible display including a first portion disposed to be visible in the slid-in state and a second area extending from the first portion and accommodated in the second space through at least a portion of the bendable member, and a support assembly disposed to be oriented from the first housing toward the second space and configured to press the second housing in a slid-out direction.