Patent ID: 8711566

Claim:
An expandable mobile device, comprising: first and second housing parts configured to slide-engage relative to each other to extend and retract the expandable mobile device; a flexible display configured to extend from an interior of the expandable mobile device as the second housing part slides out from the first housing part, the flexible display further configured to retract into the interior of the expandable mobile device as the second housing part slides into the first housing part; rollers integrated in the first housing part and configured to bend the flexible display around a fixed radius to position a first section of the flexible display approximately parallel to a second section of the flexible display in a retracted position of the expandable mobile device; first and second support plates configured to support the flexible display; and carrier tracks configured to gear-engage the rollers and position the first support plate adjacent the second support plate in an extended position of the expandable mobile device, wherein the first support plate engages the second support plate to position the first support plate over the second support plate in the retracted position of the expandable mobile device.