Sliding Housing Component Layout for Flexible Display Reliability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic components in deformable slidable electronic devices face functional degradation due to assembly tolerances and gaps between housings, leading to issues like sound leaks during sliding operations.
Innovation Solution
An electronic component arrangement structure that includes a first housing with a bendable support and a second housing, where electronic components are positioned to avoid interference from sliding, connected via a bendable electrical connection member, ensuring functionality despite sliding operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If electronic components are disposed in the inner space of housings that slide with respect to each other, then the device can achieve a compact structure with expandable display area, but the electronic components cannot fully perform their functions due to assembly tolerance or gap between two housings
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into two separate housings (first housing and second housing) that can slide relative to each other. The electronic components are segmented and disposed in different locations - some in the first housing and others in the second housing - allowing each component to be positioned away from the sliding interface, thus avoiding interference from assembly tolerances and gaps while maintaining the expandable display functionality.
2Ease of operation
If electronic components are disposed near openings in sliding housings to communicate with external environment, then connectivity is enabled, but sound leak and performance degradation occur due to assembly tolerance or gap between housings
Solution Approach 1:
A bending member is introduced as an intermediary structure that connects electronic components across the two housings. This bending member can flexibly accommodate the relative sliding motion between housings while maintaining electrical or data connections, allowing external communication through openings without suffering from sound leaks or performance degradation caused by assembly gaps.
Solution Approach 2:
The device employs dynamic positioning of electronic components and flexible connections that can adapt to the changing relative positions of the two housings during sliding operation. The bending member dynamically flexes to maintain connections, and openings are positioned to communicate with the external environment regardless of the sliding state, enabling continuous external communication without sound leakage issues.
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AI summary
According to various embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a first housing including a first space formed through a first side member comprising a first side, a second side extending in a direction perpendicular to the first side, and a third side extending from the second side in parallel with the first side; a second housing slidably coupled to the first housing along a first direction and comprising a second space formed through a second side member; a bendable support connected to the first housing, is, in a slide-in state, at least partially accommodated into the second space, and in a slide-out state, forms a side at least partially coplanar with the first housing; a flexible display supported through the first housing and the bendable support; at least one electronic component disposed in the second space and in communication with an external environment through a first opening formed in at least a portion of the second side member in the slide-in state; and a bendable electrical connection member configured to connect the electronic component to the first space, wherein in the slide-in state, at least a portion of the first side and the third side are accommodated in the second space so as not to be visible from the outside, and the at least one electronic component may be disposed at a position not interfered with by the first side and/or the second side in the slide-in state.