hide out within the usual litany of title in a patent of invention awarded this January - title “ Display Housing for Computing gadget ” , which cover their current portable display - Apple describes a tablet display , with the video display domiciliate the computer twist .
The patent describes several form for these displays - most of them already in manipulation in current Apple laptops- , describing displays attached to portable information processing system . However , one of the claims account the display as a “ caparison for a computer twist ” , which would include the computer electronics within the display caparison , sandwiched between front and back shell .
[ 0015]As a caparison for a computer gadget , one embodiment of the invention include : a front shell ; a back case partner off to said front shell to produce suppose housing , electric components for the figurer gadget being internal to say living accommodations ; and a foam stiffener render internal to said housing to well sate unused space interior to say trapping , thereby provide stiffness to tell housing .
fit in to our letters patent expert R. Polk Wagner , Professor of patents jurisprudence at University of Pennsylvania Law School :
What might be fair to say is that Apple ’s letters patent is significant in that it shows something about the company ’s cerebration : that they are retrieve about “ portable computation devices ” where the display ( and/or keyboard ) are expectant than the volume required to domiciliate the components inside – thus allowing or even requiring a stiffener . perhaps this mean Apple is believe about tablets ( i.e. , “ big iPhones ” ) or maybe they ’re just thinking about further miniaturization of portion / lightheaded weight in existing frame factors . Hard to know .
So there you have it . To me , the patent title quoted above inclination clearly to a potential tablet twist . In any case , commend that patents do n’t have to materialize into products , but it ’s always comforting to see Apple thinking about creating such a equipment . Or at least , contemplating the possibility seriously enough to get over all bet in a letters patent . [ USPTOviaElectronic Pulp ]
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