Apple is continuing work on a new kind of hinge design for its devices. The company has been perfecting its work here since 2013 and this week, the European Patent Office published Apple’s latest ...

Due to its toughness and ductility, polypropylene (PP) is uniquely suited for a fastening and joining concept that can't easily be reproduced with other engineering thermoplastics: the integral or ...

Living hinge design rules are well known, but even a well-designed part will create problems if just a few elements of the melt flow path are not right. I had a surprise visitor last week, an old ...

Designing plastic parts with integrated hinges formed from the plastic itself is hardly a new idea. These so-called "living hinges" have been around for years on all sorts of packaging and consumer ...

3D printed in-place mechanisms and flexures, such as living hinges, are really neat when you can get them to print correctly. But how do you actually do that? YouTuber [Slant 3D] is here with a ...

Apple could potentially eliminate the plastic strip found on today’s MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops in a future redesign if it brings its patent for a living hinge to life. The MacBook maker is ...

Apple’s research and development team have been hard at work on a replacement hinge for the MacBook family of laptops, as revealed by the latest published patent, reports Jack Purcher at Patently ...

Jabil Packaging Solutions, the packaging division of Jabil Inc., introduced an innovative development in its lightweight flip-cap dispenser molded in the closed position. The dispenser is 50% lighter ...