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Apple Liquidmetal patent points to devices of the future?
July 17, 2013 Stephen Warwick Leave a comment
A patent granted to Apple’s licensing tie-up with Liquidmetal Technologies, Crucible Intellectual Property, has pointed to distinct progress in using Liquidmetal for mobile devices of the future.

Currently, Liquidmetal can only be applied to tiny implements, such as Apple’s SIM ejector tool. Creating larger objects involves manufacturing large sheets of controllable thickness, and all of the current techniques mean that the stuff just breaks.

The patent granted to the two companies today involves several factory methods which allows the creating of metallic glass of controllable thickness, between 0.1 and 25 mm, at a width of up to 3 meters.



The possibility of Liquidmetal manufacturing would allow Apple to totally revolutionize its manufacturing methods, and would pave the way for all sorts of device implementations and possibilities. Whilst we have no specific details of this rather ambiguous patent, its clear that this development means a big jump for Liquidmetal manufacturing that we will most likely see in our iDevices one day!