Samsung patents wearable design using flexible circuits to fit tight spaces
Samsung describes a wearable device layout where a circuit board has a rigid part holding the electronics and a flexible part that bends to fit between the metal frame and the screen. This flexible section includes a non-conductive area positioned near a slot used for sending signals to other devices.
In the filing’s own words
A wearable electronic device is provided. The wearable electronic device includes a housing including a metal frame, a display within the housing, a bracket within the housing, including a side surface facing an inner surface of the metal frame, a rigid flexible printed circuit board including a rigid portion located between the inner surface of the metal frame and the side surface of the bracket, and an electronic circuitry on the rigid portion, wherein the rigid portion includes a first portion under the electronic circuitry, and a second portion extending from a portion of the first portion toward the display and disposed on the side surface of the bracket so that the rigid portion is supported by the bracket, and wherein the second portion includes a non-conductive portion arranged with respect to a slot between the metal frame and a portion of the display, the slot used to radiate a signal to an external electronic device.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A wearable electronic device comprising: a metal frame; a display; a printed circuit board disposed to face an inner surface of the metal frame; and an electronic circuitry on the printed circuit board, wherein the printed circuit board includes: a first portion under the electronic circuitry, and a second portion extending from the first portion toward the display, and wherein the second portion includes a non-conductive portion arranged with respect to a slot between the metal frame and a portion of the display.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING RIGID FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD
- Publication number
- US20260259581A1
- Application number
- 19659403
- Filed
- Apr 27, 2026
- Published
- Sep 3, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 1/163 Physics & computingH01Q 1/273 Electricity & electronicsH05K 1/0278 Electricity & electronicsH05K 1/189 Electricity & electronicsH01Q 13/10 Electricity & electronicsH05K 2201/09227 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Wearables
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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