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Monday, May 18, 2015

Apple Patent Describes Future Sapphire Glass Uses

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week published a patent application from Apple, reports AppleInsider. Entitled "Attachment Techniques". The application gives us insight into how the company may use Sapphire glass in the future, describes how sapphire may be securely fastened to an electronic device, and also gives insight as to how the material could be used to dissipate heat generated by a device.

Sapphire could be used as a heat spreader

The patent points out how difficult it is to attach sapphire to existing materials, and also notes the current implementation of sapphire as a cover for the rear camera on the iPhone. Apple suggests effective methods for using sapphire as a cover glass would involve creating an aperture within a sapphire substrate, then a heated second material with a lower melting point – metal or plastic – poured into the aperture. The next step would be to use the hardened and cooled material’s metallic portion as an attachment point to which other materials could be coupled.

The aperture formed in the substrate may have one or more securing features to help hold the second material within the aperture. For example, the aperture may have one or more tapered sidewalls. Alternatively, or additionally, the aperture may have a notch or step in one or more sidewalls. In still other embodiments, an interior surface of the aperture may be threaded or include a lip or protrusion that serves as a securing feature. It should be appreciated that other securing features may be implemented and, further, that multiple securing features may be used in conjunction.

Currently, Apple uses small pieces of sapphire glass to protect the iPhone’s cameras and the home button of the iPhone 5s, which features a fingerprint sensor.

‘Samsung uses its own camera module for Galaxy S6′ – NU nl

Reported that at least the South Korean ETnews according to industry sources.

Samsung camera modules normally used by Sony for its flagships. The Galaxy S5 had a 16 megapixel camera from Sony.

According to rumors, the Galaxy S6 is equipped with a 20 megapixel camera with optical image stabilization. The latter means that the lens is held stationary while shooting a picture, producing sharper images.

The South Korean company reportedly works for a year at a private camera module with 20 megapixels.

Samsung develops and produces many hardware, memory modules to processors. The Galaxy S6 would of Samsung Exynos chip with a octacore processor are provided, instead of the 810 Snapdragon chip from Qualcomm.

The Snapdragon 810 chip would suffer from overheating problems, although some manufacturers contradict it.

This is expected from the Galaxy S6

What’s new in the Snapdragon 810 processor

By: NU.nl

Monday, May 18, 2015

Apple Patent Describes Future Sapphire Glass Uses

Friday, April 3, 2015

‘Samsung uses its own camera module for Galaxy S6′ – NU nl