many owners of iPhone ou iPad have you ever had the unpleasant experience of seeing your device's power cable Apple wear out, break or simply dissolve. Solving the problem, although easy, is not cheap, since buying a new, original accessory can cost close to R$500 in manufacturer's official website.

Apparently, Apple also thinks about the humble. Apple filed a patent application for cables with “variable stiffness), that is, more resistant, but with maintained malleability, in US Patent & Trademark Office (United States Patent and Trademark Office). The justification for the trademark was an acknowledgement that current models are indeed subject to failure and breakdown.

“It is well known that bending of the cable near the termination point can cause unwanted stress on the wire connections, which can lead to cable failure,” said the Apple, in the patent filings for the new cable design. “Consequently, it is common to provide a strain relief sleeve made of a rigid material around the cable end region. The rigid material creates a localized increase in the cable’s bending resistance, thereby relieving stress at the wire connections. In addition to making the cable locally stiffer, the strain relief sleeve also makes the cable thicker at the ends,” he added.

Will it come out?

The patent registration, by itself, does not mean, however, that the cable is stronger than the Apple imagined to be put on the market in the near future by the Apple brand. The company, in the last two months alone, has already had a series of projects patented that, for now, have not left the drawing board.

We can highlight, for example, the Apple Watch with camera under the screen, the Apple Ice cream with function to unlock other devices Apple, layer that would have the capacity to store and carry AirPods and many more. For anyone who has ever had a damaged or broken cable Apple, however, the hope that the new patent becomes real is certainly quite high.

Through which channels you reach those people, classic and out of the box. Pocket-lint e Apple Insider

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