GLASS COVER MEMBER FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE ENCLOSURE

    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.

    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.

    Electronic Devices Having Glass Layers With Scratch Resistant Coatings

    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.

    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.

    Electronic device coatings with ultraviolet light stability

    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.

    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.

    Electronic devices with glass layer coatings

    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.

    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.

    Electronic Devices With Adjustable-Appearance Housing Structures

    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.

    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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