Apple's new patent: watch strap made of display

Curiosity daily apple has prepared a variety of different Apple Watch Apple watch strap, now seems to want these also become some smart watch strap.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday approved a new apple "(woven display) woven display" patent. Apple in the patent document describes a composite material, comprising a transparent, opaque fiber fiber and light emitting element such as woven, hope that the production of a special watch strap made of this cloth can be used to display information.

The launch of the cloth that sounds like Google I/O Conference on intelligent fabric Project Jacquard is similar. Apple will be transparent and opaque fiber fiber in a certain way and direction for weaving, ductility and soft, perhaps by adding third kinds of fiber (such as nylon, glass etc.).

Two kinds of fiber interwoven with two fibers intertwined

The light transmitting fiber plays a role of the light emitting display, light emitting element that is similar to the LED, because of the different ways of weaving, results are different, the whole fiber may be shiny, or partly by an opaque cover and intermittently luminous fiber.

Apple said in the document, the cloth can be made into a detachable watch strap, can be used to demonstrate the similar time, temperature and other information, may also be the power to remind. The patent document also mentioned a timing function of the equipment, can use magnetic adsorption way, look, this patent is ready for Apple Watch.

May be ready for Apple Watch may be ready for Apple Watch

In addition to the smart watch dial efforts will also watch strap intelligent smart watches manufacturers have another idea. In addition to the embedded chip in on the watch strap, watch strap modular, but also because of the chip watchband, so waterproof anti sweat performance may be a discount.

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