Apple's new patent for foldable iPhone is approved, exploring inward/outward folding

IT House News on May 7th, according to a list recently announced by the United States Trademark and Patent Office (USPTO), Apple has obtained a new patent for a folding screen iPhone. The biggest highlight is the unique hinge design, which can realize folding screen iPhone. Folds inward and outward in both directions.

Currently, mainstream folding screen mobile phones can only achieve one-way folding inward or outward, but Apple has explored a two-way folding method in this patent. The relevant pictures attached to IT Home are as follows:

In Figure 2, multiple #40 hinges are used to connect, and then coupled to each other for rotational movement, allowing the first and second parts of the housing #12 to extend in series, but the patent drawing looks at the overall rotation amount of adjacent hinge links May be subject to restrictions.

The gear-like hinge design is shown in Figure 5, the gear plate has opening #84 that accommodates shaft #82 so that the gear plate can rotate around the axis. As one half of the housing (#12) rotates about axis #28, the mating teeth of the plate cause the other half of the housing to rotate simultaneously.

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