Patent lining smartphone Samsung Galaxy X
Today, the Korea Patent Office has published a Samsung patent application No. 1020160047958 (publication number 1020160129724) , which discloses the design of a flexible or, rather, even a folding smartphone Samsung Galaxy X, rumored to be expected in the market next year.
The application was filed on April 20, 2016, claiming priority from April 30, 2015 on the earlier application No. 1020150062065. In the near future, it should become clear in which other countries applications have been submitted for the same invention.
The published application is notable for a detailed description of the mechanism for folding the case of a smartphone equipped with a flexible screen.
The quality of the illustrations in the application (explicitly obtained from engineering 3D-models, and not from designer visualizations) indicates a rather thorough elaboration of the concept and may be a sign of more or less elaborated design documentation (at least at the level of engineering sample, or even production proto) at the time of preparation of the application (the beginning of this year), and the number of disclosed joint options is respectful, because the developers of this unit are clearly familiar with both the DOE (design of experiment) and DFx (design for manufacturability / testability / usability / etc.) .
Well, the more interesting it will be to get acquainted with the final version, which will go on sale. But the main thing is that the publication of the application with a multitude of disclosed embodiments of the invention covers the possibility of concurrent patents of modified structures by competitors.
Recall that this summer another patent application Samsung US14 / 953,670 (publication number US20160187994 , included in patent family WO2016108439) was published, which described a folding device with a flexible screen, but did not disclose the details of the design.
Samsung also owns a number of other patent applications related to similar devices. Their brief overview can be found, for example, from patentlymobile.com publications:
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Samsung Continues to the Foldable Galaxy Smartphone
Samsung Patent Illustrates a New Round of Foldable Smartphone and Tablet Concepts
The application was filed on April 20, 2016, claiming priority from April 30, 2015 on the earlier application No. 1020150062065. In the near future, it should become clear in which other countries applications have been submitted for the same invention.
The published application is notable for a detailed description of the mechanism for folding the case of a smartphone equipped with a flexible screen.
The quality of the illustrations in the application (explicitly obtained from engineering 3D-models, and not from designer visualizations) indicates a rather thorough elaboration of the concept and may be a sign of more or less elaborated design documentation (at least at the level of engineering sample, or even production proto) at the time of preparation of the application (the beginning of this year), and the number of disclosed joint options is respectful, because the developers of this unit are clearly familiar with both the DOE (design of experiment) and DFx (design for manufacturability / testability / usability / etc.) .
Well, the more interesting it will be to get acquainted with the final version, which will go on sale. But the main thing is that the publication of the application with a multitude of disclosed embodiments of the invention covers the possibility of concurrent patents of modified structures by competitors.
Recall that this summer another patent application Samsung US14 / 953,670 (publication number US20160187994 , included in patent family WO2016108439) was published, which described a folding device with a flexible screen, but did not disclose the details of the design.
Samsung also owns a number of other patent applications related to similar devices. Their brief overview can be found, for example, from patentlymobile.com publications:
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Samsung Continues to the Foldable Galaxy Smartphone
Samsung Patent Illustrates a New Round of Foldable Smartphone and Tablet Concepts
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/314850/
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