Patent ID: 8170631

Claim:
An apparatus comprising a first and a second panel pivotally connected together at inner edges with a hinge assembly, wherein the first and the second panels can pivot from an open arrangement where the first and the second panels lay side by side to a closed arrangement where the first and the second panels lay one on top of another, and wherein a cavity is formed between the inner edges of the first and the second panels and the hinge assembly when in the closed arrangement; and a flexible display connected to outer edges of the first and the second panels and mechanically free from the inner edges of the first and the second panels, wherein when in the open arrangement the flexible display extends over the first and the second panels and when in the closed arrangement the flexible display is located internal to the first and the second panels and a portion of the flexible display that is mechanically free enters the cavity to prevent the flexible display from being mechanically folded at a damagingly small radius of curvature at or around the inner edges.