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 achieve inward folding. , fold outward in two directions.
Apple new patent for foldable iPhone is approved
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.
Multiple hinges are used to connect and then couple each other for rotational motion, allowing series extension between the first and second parts of housing, but judging from the patent drawing, the overall amount of rotation of adjacent hinge links may be restricted.
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.
