Honor Working on Extendable Mobile Display Technology, Patent Shows

Honor is engaged on a brand new show expertise that may very well be used on the corporate’s upcoming smartphones or tablets, in response to particulars which have surfaced in a just lately revealed patent. The Chinese agency has described a display screen with one fastened panel and one other that strikes with the assistance of a linear motor. The expertise may permit Honor to introduce a brand new smartphone or pill with a compact or moveable design that would “lengthen” to offer a bigger show when required.

Honor’s Extendable Display Technology Features a Linear Motor

Details of Honor’s new extendable show expertise are revealed in patent CN118582642A that was revealed on Tuesday and spotted by ITHome on the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) portal. The firm says that the show described within the patent makes an attempt to resolve a number of the challenges associated to versatile screens.

Honor’s improved show helps whereas retracted (left) and prolonged
Photo Credit: CNIPA/ Honor

 

According to Honor, the present buildings utilized in units with versatile shows at present don’t supply sufficient assist. The firm describes the usage of a brand new assist construction that comprises a number of assist models which can be related to one another in a sequence.

These supporting buildings are used to attach two show panels, one that is still fastened, whereas the opposite could be moved utilizing a linear motor. In order to maneuver the panel in a straight line, the system is proven to be geared up with an “elastic beam construction” that may be bent to offer extra assist to the display screen, in response to the patent doc.

Various figures within the doc illustrate how the show expertise would work. The supporting buildings could be prolonged and retracted with the intention to increase and shrink the scale of the show, respectively. This course of is helped alongside by the linear motor seen within the firm’s photographs.

While the looks of expertise described in a patent doc will not be a assure that it’s going to make its option to a shopper electronics system, such a tool may supply a number of advantages. For starters it may permit prospects to entry a a lot bigger display screen on demand, whereas carrying a way more moveable system.