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公开(公告)号:US11565506B2
公开(公告)日:2023-01-31
申请号:US16143309
申请日:2018-09-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Victor Luzzato , Christopher D. Prest , Matthew S. Rogers , Dale N. Memering , Christopher C. Bartlow
IPC: B32B15/04 , B32B17/06 , B32B7/12 , C03B23/03 , C03C17/23 , C03C21/00 , C03C17/22 , C03B23/203 , C03C27/10 , C03C19/00
Abstract: Glass articles and methods for producing glass articles for a portable electronic device are disclosed. Properties of the glass articles, such as cover members, are improved through chemical strengthening, thermoforming, or a combination thereof. The glass articles may include barrier layers to prevent diffusion of ions between glass layers of the glass article, internal compressive stress regions, or a combination thereof.
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公开(公告)号:US20230014168A1
公开(公告)日:2023-01-19
申请号:US17951393
申请日:2022-09-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Joseph C. Poole , Matthew S. Rogers , Dale N. Memering
IPC: G06F1/16
Abstract: The disclosure provides members formed from multiple layers as well as enclosures and electronic devices that include the members. The members include glass members formed from multiple layers of glass. In some cases, the members include a protruding feature provided over a camera assembly of the electronic device. The member may define one or more through-holes that extend through the protruding feature. The protruding feature may define a textured region that may be configured to provide a matte or glossy appearance.
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公开(公告)号:US20220359133A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-10
申请号:US17813930
申请日:2022-07-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Paul X. Wang , Christopher D. Jones , Dinesh C. Mathew , Keith J. Hendren , Martin Melcher , Matthew S. Rogers , Naoto Matsuyuki , Simon R. Lancaster-Larocque , Avianne Marie B. Tuano
Abstract: Keycaps for keyboards that have transparent top portions have a set of layered components to define a top surface that provides key definition by curvature, texture, ridges, or other external structural features. Other portions of the keycaps define a glyph or support structure for the top layer. Features such as angle filters and partially reflective materials are implemented to improve the visibility, contrast, and reflectivity of the keycaps. Multiple methods are used to bend or otherwise modify rigid transparent materials such as glass in order to add surface features and to improve aesthetics of the keycaps of a keyboard.
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公开(公告)号:US20220322557A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-06
申请号:US17843854
申请日:2022-06-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Andi M. Limarga , James R. Wilson , Matthew S. Rogers , Que Anh S. Nguyen , Bijumon Varkey
IPC: H05K5/03 , H05K5/00 , H05K5/02 , G06F1/16 , G02B1/18 , G06F3/044 , C03C19/00 , C03C15/00 , C03C21/00 , C03C17/36 , C03C17/38 , H04M1/02
Abstract: Textured cover assemblies for electronic devices are disclosed. The textured cover assemblies may provide a combination of optical and tactile properties to the electronic devices. In some cases, a textured cover assembly may be provided over decorative coating.
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公开(公告)号:US20220268967A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-25
申请号:US17667686
申请日:2022-02-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Martin Melcher , Matthew S. Rogers , Ove Lyngnes , Que Anh S. Nguyen , Stephen C. Cool , Tyler R. Roschuk
Abstract: An electronic device may be surrounded by an exterior region and may have an interior region. Electronic components may be mounted in the interior region. Housing walls such as housing walls formed from transparent layers of material may separate the interior region from the exterior region. A display may be visible through one of the transparent layers of material. A transparent layer of material may be coupled to housing structures in the device and may be formed of glass or glass-ceramic. The transparent layer may have two opposing chemically strengthened surface layers of different thicknesses. A coating may be formed on a thinner of the two opposing chemically strengthened surface layers. The coating may have an oleophobic outer coating layer, an antireflection layer, and an antiscratch layer. The antiscratch layer may have one or more compressively stressed dielectric layers and may have one or more corresponding graded composition layers.
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公开(公告)号:US11369028B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-21
申请号:US17032813
申请日:2020-09-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Andi M. Limarga , James R. Wilson , Matthew S. Rogers , Que Anh S. Nguyen , Bijumon Varkey
IPC: H04B1/03 , H04B1/08 , H04M1/02 , H05K5/03 , H05K5/00 , H05K5/02 , G06F1/16 , G02B1/18 , G06F3/044 , C03C19/00 , C03C15/00 , C03C21/00 , C03C17/36 , C03C17/38
Abstract: Textured cover assemblies for electronic devices are disclosed. The textured cover assemblies may provide a combination of optical and tactile properties to the electronic devices. In some cases, a textured cover assembly may be provided over decorative coating.
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公开(公告)号:US11269374B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-08
申请号:US16882361
申请日:2020-05-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Matthew S. Rogers , Manish Mittal , Marta M. Giachino , Sawako Kamei
Abstract: A cover assembly for an electronic device has a cover member including a glass ceramic material. An adhesion layer couples an interior coating to the cover member. The adhesion layer includes an oxide-based layer, such as a silicon oxide-based layer, and a coupling agent.
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公开(公告)号:US11224138B2
公开(公告)日:2022-01-11
申请号:US16379272
申请日:2019-04-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Matthew S. Rogers , Manish Mittal , Marta M. Giachino
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display and other electrical components. The display may be covered with a display cover layer. A rear housing member, the display cover layer, and other structures in the device may be formed from a transparent member. Transparent members in the device may be covered with layers such as layers of ink. The ink may have a polymer with colorant such as dye or pigment. Light-scattering particles such as inorganic dielectric particles may be incorporated into the polymer. The inorganic dielectric particles may have cores formed from materials such as titanium dioxide and coatings that help prevent discoloration of the titanium dioxide and degradation of surrounding polymer when the inorganic dielectric particles are exposed to ultraviolet light.
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公开(公告)号:US11209944B2
公开(公告)日:2021-12-28
申请号:US16420072
申请日:2019-05-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Marta M. Giachino , Manish Mittal , Matthew S. Rogers , Que Anh S. Nguyen
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display and a rear housing. A coating may be formed on an inner surface of a display cover layer for the display or on an inner surface of the rear housing. The coating may include one or more inorganic layers such as inorganic layers in a thin-film interference filter or other layer of material. A buffer layer having a polymer with adhesion promotion additive and embedded silicon oxide particles may be interposed between the coating and a glass layer forming the rear housing or between a patterned indium tin oxide coating on a display cover layer and an adhesive layer that attaches a pixel array to the display cover layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20210356991A1
公开(公告)日:2021-11-18
申请号:US16874568
申请日:2020-05-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Joseph C. Poole , Christopher D. Jones , Christopher D. Prest , James R. Wilson , Marta M. Giachino , Matthew S. Rogers
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display for displaying images. The display may be coupled to a housing on a front face of the device. The housing may have a transparent portion on an opposing rear face of the device. The electronic device may have structures with an adjustable appearance. The adjustable-appearance structures may include a mask with openings or other mask elements and a corresponding overlapped patterned layer containing an array of visual elements. The visual elements may have different appearances, so that movement of the mask relative to the patterned layer changes the appearance of the adjustable-appearance structures. The state of the adjustable-appearance structure may be changed during use of the device by a user or may be adjusted then fixed during manufacturing.
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