Sliding Electronic Device Sensor Housing Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge is to optimize the arrangement and structure of sensors in electronic devices with sliding roll structures, ensuring stable operation and optimal performance during sliding operations that extend or reduce the display area.
Innovation Solution
The electronic device incorporates a sensor-related structure that stabilizes sensor configuration and maintains optimal operating form, enabling stable image acquisition and processing through a sliding type mechanism.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a flexible display is mounted in a roll structure to enable sliding operation for size adjustment, then the display area can be extended or reduced, but a gap is formed that exposes the sensor module and compromises structural stability
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor module is nested within a sensor module housing that is integrated into the roll structure. The housing contains the sensor module when the display is in rolled state, preventing exposure through the gap. This nesting approach allows the sensor to be protected while maintaining the sliding functionality for display area adjustment.
Solution Approach 2:
The device is segmented into distinct functional modules: the flexible display, the sensor module, and the sensor module housing. This segmentation allows independent optimization of each component - the display can slide for area adjustment while the sensor module remains stably housed in its dedicated compartment, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and stability.
2Ease of operation
If the sensor module is exposed through the opening during sliding operation, then the sensor function may be accessed, but the sensor structure becomes unstable and image acquisition is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor module is pre-positioned and secured within the sensor module housing before the sliding operation begins. This preliminary securing action ensures that regardless of the display's sliding state, the sensor maintains its precise position and stability, enabling reliable image acquisition without requiring exposure during operation.
3Area of stationary object
If the display is extended through sliding operation, then larger display area is achieved, but the sensor arrangement and structure require optimization to maintain stable operation
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor module housing serves multiple functions: it protects the sensor module, provides structural support during sliding operations, and integrates seamlessly with the roll structure. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional specialized components, simplifying the overall sensor arrangement while enabling large display area extension through sliding.
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AI summary
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first cover, a second cover that is coupled with the first cover and that performs a sliding operation, a display, an exposed area of which is changed in size in response to the sliding operation of the second cover, a panel support part that is disposed on one side of a rear surface of the display with respect to a front surface of the display and that includes a first hole exposed in response to the sliding operation of the second cover, a rotary shaft that makes contact with at least part of the panel support part and rotates in response to the sliding operation of the second cover, and a sensor, at least part of which is disposed under the first hole.