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.
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| 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
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| 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.
