Huawei's Groundbreaking Tri-Foldable Screen Phone in Development
TapTechNews July 8th news, according to the blogger @DigitalChatStation's revelation today, a certain manufacturer is developing the world's first "tri-foldable screen" mobile phone, adopting an inner fold + outer fold, and double hinge design. The screen is estimated to be about 10 inches, and there are quite a lot of "far ahead new technologies" stuffed inside, and there will not be competing products in the short term.
According to the speculation of netizens in the comment area, this new machine is expected to be a product under Huawei, and the wording of "far ahead" seems to confirm this.
According to the China Patent Publication Announcement of the National Intellectual Property Administration, Huawei announced a "foldable screen device" patent this March, adopting a triple-fold design. This patent was applied for on February 21, 2023, the applicant is Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., and the inventors are Huang Bo, Zha Peng, Wang Yanxin, Pang Dong, and Yu Weidong.
TapTechNews summarizes the patent abstract as follows:
This application provides a foldable screen device, including a first housing, a second housing, a third housing, a first hinge, a second hinge, and a flexible screen;
The opposite ends of the first hinge are respectively connected to the first housing and the second housing, the opposite ends of the second hinge are respectively connected to the second housing and the third housing, and the flexible screen is respectively connected to the first housing, the second housing, and the third housing;
The first hinge can be deformed to enable the first housing to be folded or unfolded relative to the second housing,
The second hinge can be deformed to enable the second housing to be 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 housings can have different thicknesses, reducing the thickness of the device in the folded state and also making it lighter in weight, thereby providing users with a better grip feel.