Microsoft Patents Detachable Dual Screen Device

Microsoft patents a detachable double screen device

The Neo Surface of Microsoft.

The foldable screens of smartphones and tablets are spreading among manufacturers, and there has already been a lot of talk about 'them in recent years. Signs like Samsung , Xiaomi or Apple regularly announce new devices in this segment.

Microsoft is also one of them. According to a patent, the company already offering foldable screens on its Surface range would now work on a new product with a foldable and detachable double screen. Each screen could be used independently.

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Limit the case

< p class = "marty-paragraph-left "> The patent was filed last May under the name of "articulated device. It rests on a long magnetic hinge allowing to join or separate two screens so that they are synchronized.

This hinge will rest on a ferromagnetic material (like iron).
For the sign, the configuration will help to reduce the risk of breakage. Each part being independent and only linked to the other by magnetism, each of the two screens will have a better sealdust and foreign bodies that could damage it.

According to the patent, this magnetic link should not however allow the opening only at an angle of 180 °. So it shouldn'tbe able to arrange the two screens back to back (unless you detach them, of course).

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A patent, not (yet) a reality

Once assembled, the two parts will only constitute one screen. Microsoft however specifies that when they are separated,these two parts can be used independently of one another. The deposit specifies: "The user can separate the parts of the device and use them individually. As such, from a certain point of view, current implementations of magnetic hinges can be thought of as virtual hinges.

This new patent thus evokes the Surface range already offered by Microsoft. Remember, however, that the patents filed by the companies do not necessarily indicate that the products will soon be on the market. If Microsoft regularly files patents that can be integrated into its devices, not all of them become a reality.

Sources: Windows Latest , USPTO