Rollable Display Multi-Bar Structure Without Battery-Space Hooks

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Solution Overview

Problem

Electronic devices with rollable displays face challenges in achieving larger screen sizes due to fixed display structures, which can lead to reduced battery capacity and lifting or delamination issues.

Innovation Solution

A multi-bar structure with a guide plate and guide rail system supports the display, allowing it to slide while maintaining battery capacity by eliminating hook structures.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a hook structure is added to the multi-bar structure to reduce display lifting, then display stability is improved, but battery volume is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay stabilityVSAvoidbattery volume
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the harmful hook structure from the multi-bar structure while retaining the essential support function through alternative means (multi-bar structure with guide plate), thereby eliminating the conflict between display stability and battery volume

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The guide plate acts as an intermediary component between the multi-bar structure and the display, providing the necessary guidance and support without requiring the hook structure that would otherwise encroach on battery space

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Area of moving object

If the display size is increased to support multimedia services, then user experience is improved, but device size increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay sizeVSAvoiddevice size
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of moving objectVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a dynamic multi-bar structure with guide plate that enables the display to expand and contract along the sliding direction, allowing the display area to change without permanently increasing the device footprint

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The invention utilizes the sliding direction (third dimension relative to the display plane) to accommodate the larger display area, allowing the display to extend beyond the device boundaries when needed while maintaining a compact form factor when retracted

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Reliability

If a conventional multi-bar structure with hook is used to support the display, then display support is improved, but battery capacity is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay supportVSAvoidbattery capacity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent removes the hook structure from the multi-bar design, extracting the problematic element that reduced battery capacity while preserving the display support function through the guide plate mechanism

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention changes the structural parameters of the support system by transitioning from a hook-based conventional multi-bar structure to a guide plate-integrated multi-bar structure, thereby increasing battery capacity while maintaining support reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP4462227B1Rollable electronic device comprising multi-bar structure
Publication Date: 2026.04.22 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present disclosure comprises: a housing including a first housing and a second housing, which accommodates at least a part of the first housing and moves relative to the first housing; a display unrollable on the basis of sliding of the first housing; a battery arranged in the first housing; a multi-bar structure supporting the display, and including a first multi-bar portion and a second multi-bar portion spaced apart from the first multi-bar portion; and a guide plate which is connected to the first housing, and which has at least a part located between the first multi-bar portion and the second multi-bar portion, wherein at least a part of the multi-bar structure can move, with respect to the guide plate, in the space between the guide plate and the battery.