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Apple continues to invest by creating screening for iPhone and iPad, where the user can pull when the user can attract to the appearance when the user can pull it when the user can pull on the iPhone.
The image of Caesar, or, most likely, the minion standing in the Coliseum, holding the decree of the Earth, read from the parchment stretched between the two cylinders. Now change Caesar to Tim Cook, switch Apple Park for Colosseum, and you see how Apple can present the future iPhone video.
this is unlikely to happen when the iPhone 17 is launched this year, and in fact it may never happen at all. The latest study of Apple about this idea of the roller display consists of a recently issued patent, and Apple submits a thousand patents per year.
Apple receives many patents provided every year, and yet even then they may not turn into a finished product. But the apple seems to be a dog with a bone according to this particular idea.
Back in 2015, another presentation showed the same idea that was used as soon as the cleaning cover, offering “active screen protection for the electronic device”. Then, in 2017, we saw the first sign of a true split for the iPhone, and 2020 saw a different turn on this idea.
now there is an “electronic device with flexible display structures”, which further goes down the same line.
“The display is often formed from hard structures such as glass substrates … This can make difficulties with the formation of compact electronic devices with the desired functions,” says Patent. “[But] a flexible display can be wrapped around one or more videos.”
a patent detail showing one method of deploying the screen between two rollers
“In the preserved position, a flexible display can be wrapped around the storage roller,” he continues. “Additional deployment videos can be used to help expand the display, as the display will get out of the case.”
, as always with patent applications, Apple will become careful to formulate things so that they cover the maximum possible interpretation of their idea. Thus, there are repeated links to how this can be used for “cell phone, tablet computer, device for wristwagn, etc.”
there are also, however, quite a few options for what this idea of the video entails. Some are not at all like videos, and instead, it seems, so much about folding.
“Flexible displays can be bent around the bending axis to allow you to fold the electronic device and can be curled around the videos,” says Apple. “This allows you to store a flexible display in the electronic device case, when the location of the compact device is required and the electronic device is pulled out of the case, when the increased display area is required.”
“An electronic device can include both folding and scrolling displays or can have folding displays and/or scrolling displays in the housing, which also includes one or more hard displays,” continues.
, therefore, two parts of the devices are shown in some illustrations in the patent application, with a screen, inclined or folded, one of them. But the key sections are focused on the true roller system showing the cross -sectional sections of the device, where all or most of the screen can be stored inside the device until necessary.
rollable, not sinking
along with the lists of almost endless stands Devices that can have potential screens, concentrations of patent applications are concentrated on them. Thus, there are links to what they can be made of, such as “metal, plastic or other suitable materials”.
The key in order to make such a screen useful and not easily broken, it is if you wish to have “bistabil support structures”. These are supports that are stable in at least two positions.
The cross section of an indefinite device containing a rolling screen
“BISTABIL support
it is difficult to see from the drawings of a patent application, like such an screen will be installed in Dense space iPhone or iPad. Nevertheless, it is easy to see from the same drawings how compact the roller system can be.
The invention is attributed to Scott A. Mayers, whose previous related work includes a patent for iPhone with a display with wrapping.
