CN110728914A - Bendable structure, shell and display device - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides a bendable structure, a shell and a display device. The invention can limit the maximum bending degree during bending, thereby avoiding the damage to the conductive material inside the display panel during bending and prolonging the service life of the display device.
Description
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of display, in particular to a bendable structure, a shell and a display device.
Background
With the development of science and technology, flexible foldable screens are more and more widely applied to electronic devices. In the prior art, in an electronic device using a foldable screen, a mechanical hinge is generally arranged at a folding position on a device housing, so that the housing is bent along with the screen. However, the bendable device using the mechanical hinge may damage the conductive material inside the display panel if the bendable device is bent too much, thereby affecting the lifetime of the display panel.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the above-mentioned defects in the prior art, an object of the present invention is to provide a bendable structure, a housing and a display device, wherein the bendable structure of the present invention can limit the maximum bending degree during bending, thereby avoiding damage to the conductive material inside the display panel and improving the service life of the display device.
An embodiment of the invention provides a bendable structure, which is used for a display device with a flexible screen body and comprises a flexible base, wherein at least one bending area is divided on the flexible base, a plurality of limiting bulges are arranged in the bending area, and one sides of the limiting bulges, which are far away from the flexible base, are connected through a bendable connecting piece.
This embodiment is through setting up at least one bending zone on flexible base to guarantee flexible base's bendability. A plurality of limiting bulges are arranged in the bending area, so that the base can be ensured to be bent towards one side of the limiting bulges, and two adjacent limiting bulges are mutually abutted along with the bending, so that the maximum bending degree during bending is limited; two adjacent spacing archs are connected through the connecting piece that can buckle to can utilize the connecting piece to fill the space between two spacing archs, provide the support for other spare parts.
It can be known from the above description that a plurality of spacing archs of this embodiment have the interval when expanding, can inject the biggest degree of buckling when buckling to can avoid the destruction to the inside conducting material of display panel when buckling, improve the life who uses the display device of the structure of can buckling of this embodiment.
As above-mentioned bendable structure, optionally, the distance between two adjacent limiting protrusions is equal, and a plurality of limiting protrusions of this embodiment have a fixed distance when being unfolded, and can limit the maximum bending degree when being bent, thereby avoiding the damage to the conductive material inside the display panel when being bent, and improving the service life of the display device using the bendable structure of this embodiment.
Optionally, the vertical section of the limiting protrusion is isosceles trapezoid, and the short bottom edge of the limiting protrusion is located on one side away from the flexible base.
The limit bulge is arranged into an isosceles trapezoid structure, so that the consistency of the curvature radius of each part during bending can be ensured; the short bottom edge is arranged on one side far away from the flexible base, so that the bendable structure can be ensured to have larger bendable degree.
The bendable structure as described above, optionally, the material of the connector is the same as the material of the flexible base.
The material of connecting piece is the same with the material of flexible base, can reduce the cost when production under the prerequisite of guaranteeing the connecting piece bendability.
The bendable structure as described above, optionally, the connector comprises a first link and a second link hingedly connected to each other.
The connecting piece chooses for use first connecting rod and the second connecting rod of mutual articulated, can make the connecting piece buckle at the pin joint, guarantees good bendability.
The bendable structure as described above optionally further includes an elastic resetting element, one end of the elastic resetting element is connected to the hinge point of the first connecting rod and the second connecting rod, and the other end of the elastic resetting element is connected to the flexible base.
The elastic reset piece is arranged to balance the folding strength, so that the first connecting rod and the second connecting rod are guaranteed to be in a folding state.
The bendable structure as described above, optionally, the elastic restoring element is a spring.
Optionally, the flexible substrate is provided with two bending regions, and a gap is formed between the two bending regions.
The flexible base can be bent into an annular runway shape by arranging the two bending areas, so that the bendable structure can be adapted to more display devices.
Another embodiment of the present invention provides a housing, including the bendable structure as described above.
The casing of this embodiment owing to set up above-mentioned bendable structure, consequently can inject the maximum degree of buckling when buckling to can avoid the destruction to the inside conducting material of display panel when buckling, improve the display device's of the casing of use this embodiment life.
Still another embodiment of the present invention provides a display device including the housing as described above.
The display device of the embodiment is provided with the shell, so that the maximum bending degree can be limited when the display device is bent, the damage to the conductive material inside the display panel can be avoided when the display device is bent, and the service life of the display device is prolonged.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and those skilled in the art can also obtain other drawings according to the drawings without creative efforts.
FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a bendable structure according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a bendable structure according to another embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a bendable structure according to yet another embodiment of the invention.
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100-a flexible base;
101-a bending zone;
200-a limit bulge;
300-a connector;
310-a first link;
320-a second link;
400-elastic restoring member.
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In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention.
All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention. The embodiments described below and the features of the embodiments can be combined with each other without conflict.
Example one
FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a bendable structure according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a bendable structure according to another embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 3 is a simplified structural diagram of a bendable structure according to yet another embodiment of the present invention; please refer to fig. 1-3.
The embodiment provides a bendable structure, which is used for a display device with a flexible screen body, and comprises a flexible base 100, wherein at least one bending area 101 is arranged on the flexible base 100, a plurality of limiting protrusions 200 are arranged in the bending area 101, the limiting protrusions 200 comprise protrusions arranged on the flexible base 100, the distance between two adjacent limiting protrusions 200 is equal, and one side of each limiting protrusion 200 departing from the flexible base 100 is connected through a bendable connecting piece 300.
Specifically, the bendable structure of the embodiment can be used in a display device having a flexible screen body to combine the flexible screen body to achieve the bendability of the display device, where the flexible screen body may be, for example, an OLDE (Organic Light-emitting diode) screen body, and the display device may be, for example, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a television, a wearable device, and the like.
As shown in fig. 1, the bendable structure mainly includes a flexible substrate 100, at least one bending region 101 is disposed on the flexible substrate 100 for performing daily bending operations, and the bending region 101 corresponds to a bending region on a display panel of the display device. Be equipped with a plurality of spacing archs 200 in the district 101 of buckling, bellied shape can set up as required, for example can be square, circular, shape such as triangle-shaped, the setting makes the structure of can buckling the time can inject the biggest degree of buckling towards spacing protruding one side bending, according to above-mentioned characteristic, can be when preparation display device, the structure and the nature of conducting layer select the spacing arch 200 of suitable shape and structure according to display panel inside, rationally set up the height of spacing arch 200, spacing distance isoparametric between two adjacent spacing archs 200, thereby ensure can not harm the conducting layer structure of display panel inside when buckling, improve display device's life.
The bendable structure further comprises a connecting piece 300 which is connected with one side, away from the flexible base 100, of the two adjacent limiting protrusions 200, the connecting piece 300 also has bendability, and the connecting piece 300 enables the top end of the bendable structure to be flat so as to provide stable supporting force for other adjacent parts in the display device.
As can be seen from the above description, the bendable structure of the present embodiment ensures the flexibility of the flexible base 100 by providing at least one bending region 101 on the flexible base 100. A plurality of limiting protrusions 200 are arranged in the bending area 101, each limiting protrusion 200 comprises a protrusion arranged on the flexible base 100, and the distance between every two adjacent limiting protrusions 200 is equal, so that the base can be bent towards one side of each limiting protrusion 200, and the two adjacent limiting protrusions 200 are abutted with each other along with the bending, so that the maximum bending degree during bending is limited; two adjacent limiting protrusions 200 are connected through a bendable connecting piece 300, so that the connecting piece 300 can be used for filling the gap between the two limiting protrusions to provide support for other parts. The plurality of limiting protrusions 200 of the embodiment have fixed intervals when being unfolded, and can limit the maximum bending degree when being bent, so that the damage to the conductive material inside the display panel when being bent can be avoided, and the service life of the display device with the bendable structure of the embodiment is prolonged.
Further, in this embodiment, the vertical section of the limiting protrusion 200 may be an isosceles trapezoid, and the short bottom edge of the limiting protrusion 200 is located on the side far away from the flexible base 100. Set up like this and make the distance between two adjacent spacing archs 200 increase gradually in the direction of keeping away from flexible base 100, buckle towards the direction on the short base of spacing archs 200 when the structure of can buckling uses, along with buckle carry on the distance between two adjacent spacing archs 200 reduce gradually, until two adjacent spacing archs 200 complete butt together to restricted further the buckling of the structure of can buckling, restricted the maximum degree of buckling of the structure of can buckling promptly. Because two hypotenuses length of isosceles trapezoid all the same with the contained angle on base, consequently the interval between any two adjacent spacing archs 200 all equals, can both remove fixed distance when buckling, can guarantee the degree of can buckling everywhere consistency when buckling with the structure that sets up isosceles trapezoid to spacing archs 200.
In an alternative embodiment, the material of the connector 300 may be selected to be the same as the flexible base 100.
The material of the connecting member 300 is the same as that of the flexible base 100, so that the material selection cost during production can be reduced on the premise of ensuring the flexibility of the connecting member 300.
In another alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the connector 300 includes a first link 310 and a second link 320 hingedly connected to each other.
The connecting element 300 is formed by a first connecting rod 310 and a second connecting rod 320 which are hinged to each other, so that the connecting element 300 can be bent at a hinge point, and good flexibility is ensured.
Further, the bendable structure further includes an elastic restoring element 400, one end of the elastic restoring element 400 is connected to the hinge point of the first connecting rod 310 and the second connecting rod 320, and the other end of the elastic restoring element 400 is connected to the flexible base 100.
The elastic restoring member 400 can balance the folding force, so as to ensure that the first connecting rod 310 and the second connecting rod 320 are restored to the folded state.
Alternatively, the elastic restoring member 400 in the present embodiment may be selected as a spring.
In yet another alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, two bending regions 101 may be disposed on the flexible base 100 of the bendable structure, and a gap is formed between the two bending regions 101.
The flexible substrate 100 can be bent in a racetrack shape by providing two bending regions 101, thereby enabling the bendable structure to be adapted to more display devices.
It is clear to those skilled in the art that in other possible embodiments, more than two bending regions 101 may be further disposed on the flexible substrate 100 of the bendable structure, and the bendable structure can be bent into a plurality of different shapes such as a polygon and an ellipse by the arrangement of the plurality of bending regions 101, so as to adapt to more display devices with different requirements.
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The present embodiment provides a housing, which includes the bendable structure as described in the first embodiment.
Specifically, the casing of this embodiment can include polylith stereoplasm shell, and the shell material can be selected to be plastics, glass, pottery, timber etc. materials commonly used among the prior art, forms through the connection of the structure of can buckling among the above-mentioned embodiment one between two adjacent stereoplasm shells to realize the bendability of casing.
The casing of this embodiment owing to set up above-mentioned bendable structure, consequently can inject the maximum degree of buckling when buckling to can avoid the destruction to the inside conducting material of display panel when buckling, improve the display device's of the casing of use this embodiment life.
EXAMPLE III
The present embodiment provides a display device, which includes the housing as described in the second embodiment.
Specifically, the display device includes the housing according to the second embodiment, and a display panel, a circuit board, and the like disposed in the housing. The circuit board can be a flexible circuit board, and the display panel can be an OLED panel. Through the cooperation of setting with the casing, realized the bendability of display device in specific bending region.
The display device of the embodiment is provided with the shell, so that the maximum bending degree can be limited when the display device is bent, the damage to the conductive material inside the display panel can be avoided when the display device is bent, and the service life of the display device is prolonged.
In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "central," "longitudinal," "lateral," "length," "width," "thickness," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "clockwise," "counterclockwise," "axial," "radial," "circumferential," and the like are used in the orientations and positional relationships indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the invention and to simplify the description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and are not to be considered limiting of the invention.
In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and can, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, either internally or in any other relationship. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.
It should be noted that the terms "first" and "second" in the description of the present invention are used merely for convenience in describing different components, and are not to be construed as indicating or implying a sequential relationship, relative importance, or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature.
Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, and not to limit the same; while the invention has been described in detail and with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced; and the modifications or the substitutions do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions depart from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.
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1. The utility model provides a structure of can buckling for among the display device who has the flexible screen body, its characterized in that, including flexible base, flexible base goes up to divide there is at least one bending zone, be equipped with a plurality of spacing archs in the bending zone, spacing arch deviates from one side of flexible base is connected through the connecting piece that can buckle.
2. The bendable structure according to claim 1, wherein the distance between two adjacent stopper projections is equal.
3. The bendable structure according to claim 1, wherein the vertical section of the limiting protrusion is isosceles trapezoid, and the short bottom edge of the limiting protrusion is located on the side away from the flexible base.
4. The bendable structure of claim 1 wherein the material of the connector is the same as the material of the flexible base.
5. The bendable structure of claim 1 wherein the connector comprises first and second links hingedly connected to one another.
6. The bendable structure of claim 5, further comprising an elastic restoring member, wherein one end of the elastic restoring member is connected to the hinge point of the first and second connecting rods, and the other end of the elastic restoring member is connected to the flexible base.
7. The bendable structure of claim 6, wherein the resilient return element is a spring.
8. The bendable structure of claim 1, wherein the flexible base has two of the bending regions with a gap therebetween.
9. A housing comprising a bendable structure according to any one of claims 1-8.
10. A display device, characterized by comprising a housing as claimed in claim 9.
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