Igeekphone July 8 news, according to the blogger @digital chat station today revealed that a factory is developing the world’s first “three-fold screen” mobile phone, using internal folding + external folding, double hinge design, the screen is estimated to be about 10 inches, which is packed with a lot of “far ahead of the new technology”, there will be no competing products in the short term.
According to netizens in the comment area, this new machine is expected to be a Huawei product, and the word “far ahead” seems to confirm this.
According to the Chinese patent announcement of the State Intellectual Property Office, Huawei published a patent for a “folding screen device” in March this year, using a three-fold design. The patent was filed on February 21, 2023, by Huawei Technologies Co., LTD., and the inventors are Huang Bo, Zha Peng, Wang Yanxin, Pang Dong and Yu Weidong.
Igeekphone summary patent summary is as follows:
The present application provides a folding screen device, which comprises a first housing, a second housing, a third housing, a first hinge, a second hinge and a flexible screen.
The relative ends of the first hinge are respectively connected with the first housing and the second housing, the relative ends of the second hinge are respectively connected with the second housing and the third housing, and the flexible screen is respectively connected with the first housing, the second housing and the third housing;
The first hinge can be deformed so that the first housing folds or unfolds relative to the second housing,
The second hinge can be deformed so that the second housing is folded or unfolded relative to the third housing;
The thickness of the third housing is greater than the thickness of the first housing and/or the thickness of the second housing, and the thickness of the first housing is different from the thickness of the second housing.
Multiple casings can vary in thickness, reducing the thickness of the device in the folded state and also making it lighter in weight, which can provide the user with a better grip.