Patent 10959341 was granted and assigned to Samsung on March, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A display device reduces or minimizes a stress received by a display panel in a folded state. The display device includes a display panel including a bendable area; and a panel support portion combined to the display panel and including a multi-joint member to support the bendable area, and the multi-joint member includes a plurality of joint portions sequentially arranged in a first direction and combined to each other to rotate with respect to one another, and at least one of the joint portions includes an elastic plate at an edge of a support side arranged toward the bendable area.