Apple patents a technological process through which it could manufacture iDevices with liquid metal structures

  For years we have been told that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is about to launch on the market iDevices manufactured using liquid metal, a special alloy whose manufacturing technology has been licensed by Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), years ago. Although it was difficult to develop liquid metal structures for iDevices or Macs, those at Apple have perfected the production process and are able to produce thin strips of up to 0.1mm with this material. Even if Apple has so far only used this metal to produce SIM trays and keys for removing them, the company could use the material for its future products, if it decides to invest massively to implement the new manufacturing process.

In one embodiment, a first molten metal alloy is poured on a second molten metal of higher density in a float chamber to form a sheet of the first molten that floats on the second molten metal and cooled to form a bulk solidifying amorphous alloy sheet. A float plant, which operates non-stop for between 10-15 years, could make around 6000 kilometers of BMG glass a year in thicknesses of 0.1 mm to 25 mm, more preferably 0.4 mm to 15 mm and in widths up to 3 meters, for example.

  If you wonder why it would be beneficial to implement such a material in iDevice/Macs, well the appearance and resistance of the products are just one of the reasons. If we add to them the fact that products like this would be difficult to copy, because the competition could not reproduce the liquid metal, then we could say that Apple could have a big advantage on the market. The problem is that no one believes that we will be able to see products with such a metal in the coming years, and in general Apple's patents remain only at the patent stage, so we should not get our hopes up that we will soon see something like this in iDevices.