The foldable iPhone is on the way, and sources say Apple has contacted multiple screen and hinge component suppliers

IT House News on February 14th, according to the latest news shared by Korean news source yeux1122, Apple is actively developing a folding screen iPhone and has contacted a number of screen and component suppliers to bring a more excellent folding interactive experience. The revelation is divided into two parts, the first is the hinge and the second is the screen. Hinge Apple pays great attention to the hinge design of the folding screen iPhone. Unlike Samsung's existing hinge design, the folding screen iPhone is a component with a series of interconnecting connectors. It was reported that the hinge of the folding screen iPhone adopts a crescent-shaped slot design. IT House reported an Apple hinge patent on April 4, 2023, and the hinge design currently exposed is very similar to the patent.

1. Connector

This connector can be formed by the interdigitated fingers in the friction clutch.

2. Crescent Slot

Fingers or other parts of the connector can be provided with crescent-shaped slots that receive pins.

3. Sliding of the pin

During the folding of the device, the pin can slide along the crescent-shaped slot.

4. Relative rotation

thereby ensuring that adjacent connectors rotate relative to each other around a rotation axis located outside the hinge and within the flexible display panel.

Connectors may also be formed from connector members having curved mating support surfaces that slide relative to each other when adjacent connectors rotate relative to each other.

Apple has also given full consideration to the durability of the hinge. The rotation axis on the outside of the hinge and the rotation axis on the inside of the flexible display panel rotate relative to each other. The

screen

is different from the existing Samsung design. Apple has put forward higher requirements for the flexible screen, connecting the body shell and the display together to form a unified structure.

1. The locally thinned part of the display cover must have a greater thickness for other parts of the exterior.

2. In addition, Apple also requires the screen to have excellent impact resistance to reduce the impact of accidental drops.
3. Apple has asked component suppliers to send samples, and some suppliers have already sent samples.

   

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