Reel type display device and reel structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11367367-B2
Application number	US-202016912777-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 26, 2020
Priority date	Jun 28, 2019
Publication date	Jun 21, 2022
Grant date	Jun 21, 2022

Abstract

A reel type display device includes a shell with an accommodating space and an opening; a rotation shaft rotatably disposed in the accommodating space; a flexible screen having a connecting end connected to the rotation shaft and a retractable end configured to be retractable relative to the opening; and a driving mechanism, wherein two grooves opposite to each other are formed on an inner surface of the shell and extend along a second direction, and two end portions of the rotation shaft are in sliding fit with the two grooves, respectively. The driving mechanism is configured to drive the rotation shaft to translate along the two grooves according to a retractable state of the flexible screen, so that the portion of the flexible screen unwound from the rotation shaft extends along a first direction, wherein the second direction is perpendicular to a central axis direction of the rotation shaft.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A reel type display device, comprising:
a shell with an accommodating space and an opening;
a rotation shaft rotatably disposed in the accommodating space of the shell;
a flexible screen having a connecting end connected to the rotation shaft and a retractable end configured to be retractable relative to the opening; and
a driving mechanism;
wherein two grooves opposite to each other are on an inner surface of the shell, the two grooves extend along a second direction, and two end portions of the rotation shaft are in sliding fit with the two grooves, respectively; and
wherein the driving mechanism is configured to drive the rotation shaft to translate along the two grooves according to a retractable state of the flexible screen, so that a portion of the flexible screen unwound from the rotation shaft extends along a first direction, wherein the second direction is perpendicular to a central axis direction of the rotation shaft.

2. The reel type display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction.

3. The reel type display device according to claim 1 , wherein a length of the groove in the second direction is equal to or slightly greater than or slightly less than an overall thickness of the flexible screen, and the overall thickness is a sum of thicknesses of layers of the flexible screen overlapped to one another after the flexible screen is completely wound on the rotation shaft.

4. The reel type display device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the two grooves has a first end and a second end in the second direction, and the first end is at a center line of the shell.

5. The reel type display device according to claim 4 , wherein the second end is on a side of the center line of the shell facing the opening.

6. The reel type display device according to claim 1 , wherein the shell comprises:
a tube having two end portions; and
two end plates respectively and fixedly connected with the two end portions of the tube, wherein the two grooves are on the two end plates, respectively.

7. The reel type display device according to claim 1 , further comprising: an extension tube extending along the first direction and having two ends and; wherein one end of the extension tube connects with the shell and communicates with the accommodating space, and the other end is an opening end; the opening is at the opening end of the extension tube.

8. The reel type display device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the two end portions of the rotation shaft are made of magnetic materials; and
the driving mechanism comprises a magnetic assembly configured to control the two end portions of the rotation shaft to slide along the two grooves by a magnetic field.

9. The reel type display device according to claim 1 , further comprising: an elastic member connected between the rotation shaft and the shell, wherein the elastic member is configured to provide elastic restoring force when the rotation shaft rotates along with extension of the flexible screen.

10. The reel type display device according to claim 9 , wherein the elastic member comprises a torsion spring.

11. The reel type display device according to claim 1 , wherein the flexible screen comprises:
a composite film layer comprising a bottom film, a display screen, a touch screen, a polaroid, and an optical adhesive layer sequentially laminated; and
a cover film on a side of the optical adhesive layer facing away from the polaroid.

12. The reel type display device according to claim 11 , wherein:
an area of the cover film is larger than an area of the composite film layer, such that the cover film extends out of edges of the composite film layer respectively on both sides of the first direction;
the portions of the cover film extending out of the composite film layer are respectively provided with adhesive layers;
the adhesive layers and the composite film layer are positioned on the same side of the cover film; and
one end of the adhesive layer connects the connecting end of the flexible screen to the rotation shaft.

13. The reel type display device according to claim 11 , wherein:
an area of the cover film is larger than an area of the composite film layer;
the cover film extends out of edges of the composite film layer respectively on both sides of the first direction;
the reel type display device further comprises a handle structure at a retractable end of the flexible screen;
the portions of the cover film extending out of the composite film layer are respectively provided with adhesive layers; and
one end of the adhesive layer connects the handle structure to the retractable end of the flexible screen.

14. The reel type display device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a folding bracket foldably disposed between the retractable end of the flexible screen and the shell, wherein the folding bracket is configured to support a portion of the flexible screen extending out of the opening; or
a handle structure at the retractable end of the flexible screen.

15. A reel structure comprising:
a shell with an accommodating space and an opening; and
a rotation shaft rotatably disposed in the accommodating space of the shell;
wherein two grooves opposite and parallel to one another are on an inner surface of the shell, and two end portions of the rotation shaft are respectively in sliding fit with the two grooves.

16. The reel structure according to claim 15 , wherein each of the two grooves has a first end at a center line of the shell and a second end at a side of the center line of the shell facing the opening.

17. The reel structure according to claim 15 , wherein the shell comprises:
a tube; and
two end plates respectively and fixedly connected with two end portions of the tube,
wherein the two grooves are on the two end plates, respectively.

18. The reel structure according to claim 15 , further comprising: an extension tube, having one end connected with the shell and communicated with the accommodating space, and the other end being an opening end, wherein the extension tube extends away from the shell, and the opening is at the opening end of the extension tube.

19. The reel structure according to claim 15 , further comprising: an elastic member connected between the rotation shaft and the shell, the elastic member being configured to provide an elastic restoring force.

20. The reel structure according to claim 15 , wherein the end portions of the rotation shaft are made of magnetic materials, and the driving mechanism comprises a magnetic assembly configured to control the two end portions of the rotation shaft to slide along the two grooves by a magnetic field.

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chu Shangchieh
• Luo Xiaofei

Classifications

• G09F9/301 Primary

  flexible foldable or roll-able electronic displays, e.g. thin LCD, OLED · CPC title

• B65H75/4465

  Foldable or collapsible · CPC title

• B65H75/4402

  Guiding arrangements to control paying-out and re-storing of the material (guides per se B65H57/00) · CPC title

• G06F3/0412

  Digitisers structurally integrated in a display · CPC title

• B65H75/38

  involving the use of a core or former internal to, and supporting, a stored package of material · CPC title