Flexible Display With Varying Flexibility Regions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional portable electronic devices face challenges in providing both a large screen for user convenience and portability, as they typically require a compromise between display size and compactness.
Innovation Solution
A flexible display system is designed with regions of varying flexibility, allowing the display to transform from a flat surface to a curved surface and vice versa, enabling a larger screen area when open while maintaining portability in a closed state through a support mechanism that includes sliding structures and hinge plates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of moving object
If a flexible display with varying flexibility regions is used, then the screen area can be expanded in open state, but the device structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The display is divided into multiple regions with different flexibility characteristics. The first region has first flexibility and the second region has second flexibility different from the first flexibility, allowing different portions of the display to serve different functions - some areas remain flat while others can be bent and unfolded to expand the screen area.
Solution Approach 2:
The display structure transitions from a static rigid form to a dynamic flexible configuration. The support member enables the second region to be bent and unfolded, transforming the display from a fixed size to an adjustable size that can expand when needed and compact when not in use.
2Area of moving object
If the display is made larger for user convenience, then user experience improves, but portability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The display transitions from a static large size to a dynamic configuration that can be compacted for portability. When the electronic device is in closed state, part of the flexible display is accommodated in the electronic device; in open state, the part of the flexible display forms a surface that provides large screen area.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible display can be folded or bent to accommodate within the electronic device housing when not in use. The second region of the display can be bent and unfolded, allowing the display to be nested within the device body in closed state, providing portability while maintaining large display capability when open.
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AI summary
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a flexible display including a plurality of layers and a support member having the flexible display mounted thereon. The flexible display includes a first region having a first flexibility and a second region having a second flexibility different from the first flexibility and extending from the first region in a first direction. At least one of the plurality of layers has a first structure in the first region and has a second structure different from the first structure in the second region. The support member includes a first portion that supports the first region such that at least part of the first region remains flat and a second portion that supports the second region such that at least part of the second region is bent and then unfolded.