The Korean Intellectual Property Office just published a design patent that may give us a better idea of what to expect from Samsung’s future foldable devices.
Samsung applied for patent No. 30-0757696 in November 2013, and today the Korea Intellectual Property Office published it (via Dutch website GalaxyClub). This is a design registration patent, meaning it covers the actual appearance of a hypothetical device, or at least certain elements of it.
The patent shows a foldable tablet (or a large smartphone), with two seams and a flexible screen that allow it to fold into three segments, the way you would fold a map or a flyer.
Here’s a look at the entire design in its open form.
And here’s how Samsung device in its folded state
There are many difficult technical problems that Samsung needs to crack in order to create a viable foldable product. But if anyone can do it, it’s the Korean giant, with itsmassive display-manufacturing arm, huge R&D budget, and desire to differentiate itselffrom a wave of cheaper competitors.
This is the latest in a series of patents for foldable technologies issued to Samsung over the past years. Just this week, another patent revealed a simpler one-seam folding device, a design that could come to life through the rumored Project Valley.
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