Apple patent filing involves stretchable iPhones, iPads, Macs, Vision Pros, Apple Watches

iPhone Fold? iPhone Curve? How about the iPhone Stretch? Apple has filed for a patent (number US 20240210995 A1) for a stretchable display. And the tech could apply to iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, Apple Vision Pros, and other devices. 

About the patent filing

In the patent Apple notes that conventional OLED displays are rigid. The tech giant is looking into ways to change this. One technique would be to have a display with rigid pixel “islands” on flexible subtract. Control circuitry could be used to run software on device such as operating system code and applications. 

Summary of the patent filing

Here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent filing: “A display may have a stretchable portion with hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands. A flexible interconnect region may be interposed between the hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands. The hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands may include organic light-emitting diode (OLED) pixels. A conductive cutting structure may have an undercut that causes a discontinuity in a conductive OLED layer to mitigate lateral leakage. 

“The conductive cutting structure may also be electrically connected to a cathode for the OLED pixels and provide a cathode voltage to the cathode. First and second inorganic passivation layers may be formed over the OLED pixels. Multiple discrete portions of an organic inkjet printed layer may be interposed between the first and second inorganic passivation layers.”

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