Apple supplier LG Chem has developed advanced next-generation foldable glass for smartphones and tablets
In 2021 alone, Apple clear tempered glass supplier released a series of Apple patents related to the future foldable iPhone and iPad/MacBook (01, 02, 03, 04, and 05). There have been more patents in the past few years. View in file. Samsung and Corning have developed foldable glass, which will be supplied to Chinese smartphone manufacturers this year and beyond.Although Apple may one day develop a foldable display in cooperation with Samsung, today Apple supplier LG Chem issued its own major announcement on foldable glass.Today, LG clear tempered glass supplier officially entered the next-generation material market and announced the use of new material technology and its accumulated coating technology to develop new technologies that can be used in foldable displays.
The cover window clear tempered glass supplier is the core material on the outermost layer of the foldable device, which is used to protect the display from impact while providing a clear image.
It not only has durability and light transmittance, but also has bending characteristics that can be flexibly folded.This may apply to the future iDevice with an expandable flexible display that we reported last week.
A LG clear tempered glass supplier Chem spokesperson said, "Unlike the existing polyimide film and tempered glass materials, the cover window using LG Chem’s new coating technology will maximize flexibility and is also a foldable mobile phone. Provide optimized solutions, such as improving the impression of chronic problems such as folding on the connection part of the screen."
The "Real Folding Window" developed by LG Chem is coated with a new material with a thickness of tens of microns (㎛) on both sides of a thin plastic PET film to improve the heat resistance and mechanical properties of the plastic.
Compared with the existing clear tempered glass supplier, it is thinner and has the same hardness, but there is no crack on the screen.
Compared with the existing polyimide film, the price is more competitive, and due to its excellent flexibility, durability can be fully maintained even if it is folded more than 200,000 times.LG Chem has also made significant improvements to the folding lines that appear in the folding part of the screen.
In particular, although the current commercial cover windows are optimized for the inner folding method of folding the screen inward, the advantage of LG Chem's "true folding window" is that it can also be used for the outer folding method of folding the screen outward.
LG clear tempered glass supplier Chem is also developing technology to produce thin "real folding windows" based only on coatings, without the need for PET film (polymer film).As we pointed out in Apple's patent earlier, products without a PET film coating method are expected to be applied to foldable mobile phones and rollable display devices.
Chang Do Ki (Vice President/Head of Department of IT Materials Department. Advanced Materials) commented: "Through our newly developed Real Folding Window, we can get closer to solving the pain points of our customers. We have received joint project proposals from multiple customers. ."
He added: "We will strengthen our partnership with leading companies in the smartphone industry, and expand our market starting from mobile phones, and expand to new foldable applications such as laptops and tablets."
Well, I want to know if Apple is one of the "leading smartphone companies" that has partnered with LG Chem in order to finally develop future foldable devices from the mobile and PC fields.
Currently, Microsoft and Intel are cooperating with Samsung to carry out the "Horseshoe Bend Project", which will introduce to the market a 17-inch foldable display tablet with both foldable notebook functions.
Samsung clear tempered glass supplier has obtained a design patent for a foldable tablet computer in the future, hoping to be ahead of Apple's iPad series.This will eventually be extended to HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, etc.
Whether Apple clear tempered glass supplier will be ahead of the trend of foldable tablets, or whether consumers will buy these next-generation foldable devices before joining is still unknown.History shows that Apple will continue to develop and patent future foldable devices, but unless there is evidence that it is a viable device category that may challenge its iPad kingdom, it will not enter this market.
Posted by Jack Purcher on September 7, 2021 at 9:19 AM.Supply Chain News and Rumors|Permalink|Comments (0)
