Samsung patents phone design with flexible display and waterproof seal
Samsung describes an electronic device where a display bends at one end, similar to a foldable or rollable screen. A waterproof layer sits around the edge of the device, and a molding part covers the gap between the screen and the outer cover to keep water out.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure may include: a housing; a waterproof member comprising a waterproof material disposed along a periphery of the housing on one surface of the housing; a window cover disposed to face the one surface of the housing; a display disposed between the window cover and the housing and including a bending part located at one end part of the electronic device; and a molding part extending along peripheries of the window cover and the display and disposed on one surface of the waterproof member, wherein at least a part of the molding part may be disposed in one direction toward an outside of the electronic device and in another direction opposite the one direction based on the bending part of the display.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1 - 20. (canceled)
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING DISPLAY
- Publication number
- US20260282259A1
- Application number
- 19678307
- Filed
- May 15, 2026
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 9
Classified under
H05K 5/062 Electricity & electronicsG06F 1/16 Physics & computingG06F 1/1637 Physics & computingG06F 1/1656 Physics & computingG06F 1/1658 Physics & computingH04M 1/02 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Phones & computers
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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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