The New Screen Coating Can Automatically Repair The Apple Patent

iPhone is indeed well-made, but fragile screen allows most people choose to "foil travel", now Apple a new technology will help to change this situation. United States Patent and Trademark Office recently released a new Apple patent application, entitled "System and Method to prevent distortion of the light guide plate scratches." Apple's use of the invention in detail the self-healing Teflon coating to protect the screen the possibility of the surface, and thus avoid Apple devices and Mac screen showing distortion, you can understand it as a kind of afraid of scraping, screen coating can self-repair.

This technology looks and LG announced last October have LG G Flex technology is very similar. LG may be used for coating the device claimed in any one place, and the coating and allow it to flow into the inside of the screen can scratch scratches disappear. According to the patent documents show that this coating can achieve the thinnest 50 nm.

LG G Flex

In the patent description, Apple will this technology and Japan Natoco self-repair techniques were compared. Natoco coating is a polymer alloy, and its mode of action is different apple coating - this coating was very smooth surface it is difficult to cause scratches in the above, and also the use of the internal structure of the coating chemical produced a spring bed effect.

Apple already fragile devices because the iPhone screen and brittle been a lot of criticism. In November last year, there was news that the iPhone 6 screen will be produced using a sapphire glass, after which Apple has publicly announced that it will establish a sapphire glass plant in Arizona.

 

iPhone 5S

Apple has long used the sapphire glass on its latest iPhone 5s Touch ID fingerprint scanner, in order to protect the camera, Apple is also used in the camera at the super material. Sapphire glass is generally used for professional monitor screen, because it is not only thin and wear, and not prone to scratches. From the current point of view, sapphire glass Gorilla Glass likely will replace the majority position in the high-end smartphone market.