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公开(公告)号:US20180085857A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-29
申请号:US15712646
申请日:2017-09-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Nathan K. Gupta , Simon R. Lancaster-Larocque , Prithu Sharma , Weibo Cheng , Abhijit A. Kangude , Bryan W. Posner , Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera , Karan Bir
IPC: B23K26/36 , B23K26/0622 , B23K26/00 , B23K26/08
CPC classification number: B23K26/36 , B23K26/0006 , B23K26/0622 , B23K26/08 , B23K26/53 , B23K2103/54
Abstract: A hybrid laser modulation and acid etch process for the creation of a patterned substrate. According to some embodiments, a hole is formed in a glass substrate by first modulating a portion of the substrate in the desired shape. A mask is coated on the glass substrate and is patterned to expose the modulated portion. The glass substrate is then acid etched to remove the modulated portion. Once the modulated portion has been etched, the desired shape may be removed from the glass substrate and the mask may be stripped.
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公开(公告)号:US11644617B1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-09
申请号:US17408300
申请日:2021-08-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Shenglin Ye , Wei Lin , Prabhakar Gulgunje , Shubhaditya Majumdar , Boyi Fu , Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera , Nathan K. Gupta
Abstract: A system may include one or more electronic devices. Fiber bundles may be provided to convey light. A fiber bundle may have a bend along its length. Fibers for the fiber bundle may be formed from polymer cores coated with polymer claddings. The fibers may have end faces coated with antireflection coatings. The antireflection coatings may be formed from amorphous fluoropolymer deposited from solution. The fluoropolymer may be applied to the end faces of the fibers by dipping, spraying, or by dispensing with a needle dispenser or other dispensing tool. An optical component such as a light-emitting device for a communications system, an illumination system, or a sensor system may provide infrared light that is guided through the fiber bundle.
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公开(公告)号:US20170160766A1
公开(公告)日:2017-06-08
申请号:US15177252
申请日:2016-06-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Nathan K. Gupta , Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera , Myunghun Lee
IPC: G06F1/16 , H01L27/12 , G02F1/1333 , G02F1/1368 , G02F1/1335 , H04N5/225 , G02F1/1339
CPC classification number: G06F1/1605 , G02F1/1333 , G02F1/133308 , G02F1/133514 , G02F1/1339 , G02F1/13394 , G02F1/1368 , G02F2001/133302 , G02F2001/13396 , G02F2201/56 , G06F1/1637 , G06F1/1686 , H01L27/1214 , H04N5/2257
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. The display may be mounted in a housing and may have a window to accommodate a camera or other electrical component. The display may have multiple substrate layers. A hole may be formed in one of the substrate layers to form additional space within the housing to accommodate the electrical component. The hole may be drilled partway through a substrate layer to form an annular thinned region. The annular thinned region may be cracked to release a disk-shaped portion of the substrate layer and form the hole. A ring of sealant may surround the hole to help cushion the display substrate layers during drilling operations. Column spacer structures may be formed on a portion of a display substrate that is overlapped by the hole.
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公开(公告)号:US20190137333A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-09
申请号:US16141183
申请日:2018-09-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Junhwan Lim , Zhibing Ge , Christopher L. Boitnott , Shih-Wei Chang , Sang Un Choi , Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. An optical component window may be formed in the inactive area of the display. The optical component window may transmit infrared light from an infrared light source. The infrared light source may include a diffuser to allow the light source to operate in a flood illumination mode and a structured light mode. The diffuser may include liquid crystal material between first and second substrates. A sealant may surround the liquid crystal layer, and one or more spacer walls may be located between the sealant and the liquid crystal layer. An additional spacer wall may be used outside of the sealant to prevent metal from creating an electrical short between electrodes in the diffuser. Conductive material in the sealant may be used to couple a top electrode to a metal pad on a bottom substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20170197868A1
公开(公告)日:2017-07-13
申请号:US15159067
申请日:2016-05-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Nathan K. Gupta , Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera
IPC: C03B33/09 , B23K26/0622 , B23K26/53 , B23K26/082 , C03B33/10 , B23K26/00
CPC classification number: B23K26/0624 , B23K26/53 , B23K2103/54 , C03B33/0222 , C03B33/037 , C03B33/04
Abstract: Laser processing techniques may be used to form structures for electronic devices. A laser processing system may be provided with lasers and positioners for moving laser beams across a structure to be processed such as a layer of glass or other material. A laser such as a pulsed infrared laser may be move along a path across the layer of material. The laser may create a series of damaged regions along the path. A portion of the layer may be removed from other portions of the layer by breaking off the portion of the layer along the path. Laser-induced heating techniques and mechanical stress-inducing techniques may be used to impart stress to the layer of material to help break off the portion. The layer may include one or more sublayers such as layers of glass substrate material in a display.
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公开(公告)号:US20240210995A1
公开(公告)日:2024-06-27
申请号:US18483653
申请日:2023-10-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Prashant Mandlik , Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran , Mahendra Chhabra , Chia-Hao Chang , Shiyi Liu , Siddharth Harikrishna Mohan , Zhen Zhang , Han-Chieh Chang , Yi Qiao , Yue Cui , Tyler R Kakuda , Michael Vosgueritchian , Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera , Warren S Rieutort-Louis , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Jae Won Choi , Jiun-Jye Chang , Jean-Pierre S Guillou , Rui Liu , Po-Chun Yeh , Chieh Hung Yang , Ankit Mahajan , Takahide Ishii , Pei-Ling Lin , Pei Yin , Gwanwoo Park , Markus Einzinger , Martijn Kuik , Abhijeet S Bagal , Kyounghwan Kim , Jonathan H Beck , Chiang-Jen Hsiao , Chih-Hao Kung , Chih-Lei Chen , Chih-Yu Chung , Chuan-Jung Lin , Jung Yen Huang , Kuan-Chi Chen , Shinya Ono , Wei Jung Hsieh , Wei-Chieh Lin , Yi-Pu Chen , Yuan Ming Chiang , An-Di Sheu , Chi-Wei Chou , Chin-Fu Lee , Ko-Wei Chen , Kuan-Yi Lee , Weixin Li , Shin-Hung Yeh , Shyuan Yang , Themistoklis Afentakis , Asli Sirman , Baolin Tian , Han Liu
IPC: G06F1/16 , H10K59/131 , H10K59/40 , H10K77/10
CPC classification number: G06F1/1652 , H10K59/131 , H10K59/40 , H10K77/111 , H10K2102/311
Abstract: A display may have a stretchable portion with hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands. A flexible interconnect region may be interposed between the hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands. The hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands may include organic light-emitting diode (OLED) pixels. A conductive cutting structure may have an undercut that causes a discontinuity in a conductive OLED layer to mitigate lateral leakage. The conductive cutting structure may also be electrically connected to a cathode for the OLED pixels and provide a cathode voltage to the cathode. First and second inorganic passivation layers may be formed over the OLED pixels. Multiple discrete portions of an organic inkjet printed layer may be interposed between the first and second inorganic passivation layers.
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公开(公告)号:US11105677B2
公开(公告)日:2021-08-31
申请号:US16141183
申请日:2018-09-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Junhwan Lim , Zhibing Ge , Christopher L. Boitnott , Shih-Wei Chang , Sang Un Choi , Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera
IPC: G01J1/04 , G01J1/42 , G02F1/133 , G06F3/03 , G06F3/041 , G09G3/34 , G02F1/1339 , G02F1/1334 , G09G3/20 , G02F1/137 , G02F1/1333
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. An optical component window may be formed in the inactive area of the display. The optical component window may transmit infrared light from an infrared light source. The infrared light source may include a diffuser to allow the light source to operate in a flood illumination mode and a structured light mode. The diffuser may include liquid crystal material between first and second substrates. A sealant may surround the liquid crystal layer, and one or more spacer walls may be located between the sealant and the liquid crystal layer. An additional spacer wall may be used outside of the sealant to prevent metal from creating an electrical short between electrodes in the diffuser. Conductive material in the sealant may be used to couple a top electrode to a metal pad on a bottom substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20180315357A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-01
申请号:US15882908
申请日:2018-01-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Donghee Nam , Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran , Cheng Chen , Meng-Huan Ho , Nathan K. Gupta , Rui Liu , Sebastian Knitter , Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Weibo Cheng
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may have a display cover layer. The display may have an active area with pixels and an inactive area with dummy pixels. The dummy pixels may have structures that are optically matched to the pixels so that the dummy pixels and pixels have similar visual appearances when the display is off. An optical window may be formed in the inactive area. A light-based component such as an ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, or image sensor may be mounted in the electronic device in alignment with the optical window. A polarizer layer may overlap the active and inactive areas of the display. An opening in the polarizer or a bleached unpolarized portion of the polarizer may be aligned with the optical window.
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公开(公告)号:US10300557B2
公开(公告)日:2019-05-28
申请号:US15712646
申请日:2017-09-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Nathan K. Gupta , Simon R. Lancaster-Larocque , Prithu Sharma , Weibo Cheng , Abhijit A. Kangude , Bryan W. Posner , Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera , Karan Bir
IPC: B23K26/36 , B23K26/00 , B23K26/08 , B23K26/0622 , B23K26/53 , B23K103/00
Abstract: A hybrid laser modulation and acid etch process for the creation of a patterned substrate. According to some embodiments, a hole is formed in a glass substrate by first modulating a portion of the substrate in the desired shape. A mask is coated on the glass substrate and is patterned to expose the modulated portion. The glass substrate is then acid etched to remove the modulated portion. Once the modulated portion has been etched, the desired shape may be removed from the glass substrate and the mask may be stripped.
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公开(公告)号:US10108222B2
公开(公告)日:2018-10-23
申请号:US15177252
申请日:2016-06-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Nathan K. Gupta , Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera , Myunghun Lee
IPC: G02F1/1339 , G06F1/16 , H04N5/225 , H01L27/12 , G02F1/1368 , G02F1/1335 , G02F1/1333
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. The display may be mounted in a housing and may have a window to accommodate a camera or other electrical component. The display may have multiple substrate layers. A hole may be formed in one of the substrate layers to form additional space within the housing to accommodate the electrical component. The hole may be drilled partway through a substrate layer to form an annular thinned region. The annular thinned region may be cracked to release a disk-shaped portion of the substrate layer and form the hole. A ring of sealant may surround the hole to help cushion the display substrate layers during drilling operations. Column spacer structures may be formed on a portion of a display substrate that is overlapped by the hole.
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