The quest to make a drop-proof smartphone mostly comes down to strengthening the device display. After all, that’s the most important part of a device, in terms of actually being able to use it, and the part that’s most likely to crack or shatter. But a new patent from Apple Inc. suggests that the company may have another break through strategy entirely for keeping the future iPhones protected from breaking apart, or at least preventing the screen to shatter or crack.
The patent reveals plans for a mechanism within the cellular device that could recognize when it’s falling and then physically change the direction of how the device hits the ground. Under the hood, the iPhone would pack a completely redesigned vibration motor designed to shift its angle, to do as little damage as possible to the iPhone. The iPhone would also need a built-in ultrasonic emitter and receiver to help measure the spin and trajectory of the device, on the basis of which the microchips will alter the functioning of the vibrator so as to change the direction of the device while falling.
Of course, there’s no guarantee the ideas described above will ever see the light of day. The patent actually dates back to the year 2011, and since then Apple has moved in a completely different direction. The Cupertino based company still seems determined to release a sapphire-covered display smartphone, most recently tapping Foxconn to provide the material after its initial plans with GT Advanced Technologies fell through.
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Below mentioned are a few technical drawings of the new patent released by Apple Inc.
Below mentioned are a few technical drawings of the new patent released by Apple Inc.
