As you may have known, Apple has patented a few days ago the concept of flexible batteries focused on the possibility of having thinner devices and suitable for the future iWatch.
Today we bring you more information, this time in the form of a video, published by MobileGeeks, which is a German website in which a real model of this type of device has been presented. flexible batteries.
In this case, this type of battery is based on a flexible printed circuit (FCP), where the components are mounted on a flexible plastic substrate. This concept has already existed for several years, but it seems that Apple has studied the process and has managed to modify it so that a battery based on this process can be manufactured. Apple's patent still shows hard batteries mounted on a FCP.
It should be noted that the FCP manufacturing process has been improved and that currently the Lithium Ceramic FCP They are the latest version of this technology, allowing the batteries themselves to be flexible.
The technological advance necessary for certain ideas to be realized seems distant and even unattainable, but while some put very long deadlines, scientists work against the clock to give surprises. Finally, to quote that some time ago, a Korean research team was able to devise a way to create flexible high-performance batteries designed to power flexible electronic devices. Made of inorganic thin films, with optimal thermal stability and high density, the flexible batteries were able to make an LED light up and there is video to prove it.
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Source - 9to5Mac