Patent ID: 9625948
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,H01L,Y02E

Claim:
1. An electronic device comprising: a housing having first and second housing portions; a rotating roller within the first housing portion; a flexible display that is attached to the second housing portion and that is attached to the rotating roller so that the flexible display is retracted within the first housing portion by rotation of the rotating roller, wherein the flexible display comprises a substrate having first and second opposing surfaces with a pixel array on the first surface and flexibility-enhancing grooves in the second surface, and wherein the flexibility-enhancing grooves are located behind the pixel array such that light from the pixel array is directed away from the flexibility-enhancing grooves; support members that are perpendicular to the first and second housing portions and that extend entirely behind the flexible display, wherein the support members are bistable members that exhibit a rigid state and a flexible state, and wherein the support members wrap around the rotating roller with the flexible display when the flexible display is retracted within the first housing portion; and additional support structures that are parallel to the first and second housing portions.