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

Thanks to netizen Wu Yanzu from South China for submitting the clue! According to news on May 7, 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 inward and outward folding. Folds both ways.

At present, 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 are attached 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 shows that adjacent hinges are connected The overall amount of rotation of the rod may be limited. The gear-like hinge design is shown in Figure 5, with the gear plate having an opening #84 that accommodates shaft #82 so that the gear plate can rotate about 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. VIA: patentlyapple

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