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Because everything is obvious in hindsight?
by noja 7y ago
Because everything is obvious in hindsight?
- regularfry 7y agoThis is obvious in foresight. That picture shows literally the first image I had in my head of how they were going to have fixed the problem.
- tompccs 7y agoHave you read the whole patent, or are you assuming they just made that one drawing and sent one copy to the manufacturer and one to the patent office?
- dannyr 7y agoDid you to talk to Samsung about fixing their foldable screen issue?
- regularfry 7y agoI imagine Samsung had their own reasons for not doing this particular obvious thing. In particular, you need the body depth to get away with the screen curve, which they may have decided they couldn't get away with.
- dzdt 7y agoThe shape that the screen must make to fold flat while avoiding a crease is quite obvious. The mechanics of a hinge that keeps the screen protected and supported as it folds between open and closed states is not so obvious. I expect when you say "the first image I had in my head" you are only talking about the screen folded position, not the hinge that accomplishes this!
- regularfry 7y agoTo a certain degree, I agree. Once you've identified that there's a minimum radius you can safely take the screen through, the folded profile of the screen is obvious. That you then need a moving support structure behind it to be able to apply pressure to the screen is obvious too. I don't want to denigrate the obviously detailed design work that went into producing the hinge itself, and those details will have been an absolute nightmare to get right, but I'm also not seeing anything immediately which makes it more than conventional mechanical design.