Backlight units with support posts and cavity height monitoring

    公开(公告)号:US10969628B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-06

    申请号:US15988978

    申请日:2018-05-24

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with a backlight. The backlight provides backlight illumination for an array of pixels that is displaying images. The backlight may include an array of cells. Each cell may contain a light source with one or more light-emitting diodes and a cavity reflector that reflects light from the light source outwardly through a diffuser for use in forming the backlight illumination. The light sources may be mounted to a printed circuit. Support posts on the printed circuit may be used to maintain the diffuser at a fixed distance from the printed circuit. The support posts may have opposing first and second ends. The first ends may be attached to the diffuser with fixed connections such as adhesive connections. The second ends may be attached to the printed circuit using floating connections.

    Flexible cables in electronic devices with moving components
    14.
    发明授权
    Flexible cables in electronic devices with moving components 有权
    具有移动部件的电子设备中的柔性电缆

    公开(公告)号:US09480155B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-10-25

    申请号:US14328565

    申请日:2014-07-10

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H05K1/09 G06F1/1616 G06F1/1683 H05K1/03

    Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing. Electrical components such as a display and other circuitry may be mounted in the housing. The housing may have portions that move with respect to each other such as a lid that rotates relative to a base. A flexible printed circuit may have metal lines that couple components in one portion of the housing to components in another portion of the housing. As the housing portions move with respect to each other, the flexible printed circuit bends. Reliability may be enhanced for the flexible printed circuit by providing the metal layer that forms the metal lines with upper and lower coating layers. The coating layers may be formed from metal with a higher Young's modulus than a metal core in the metal layer. A slot may be formed along the length of the flexible printed circuit to help increase the minimum bend radius exhibited by the flexible printed circuit. Upper and lower metal shield layers may be provided above and below the metal traces.

    Abstract translation: 电子设备可以具有壳体。 诸如显示器和其它电路的电气部件可以安装在壳体中。 壳体可以具有相对于彼此移动的部分,例如相对于基部旋转的盖。 柔性印刷电路可以具有将壳体的一部分中的部件耦合到壳体的另一部分中的部件的金属线。 当壳体部分相对于彼此移动时,柔性印刷电路弯曲。 通过提供形成具有上下涂层的金属线的金属层,可以提高柔性印刷电路的可靠性。 涂层可以由具有比金属层中的金属芯更高的杨氏模量的金属形成。 可以沿着柔性印刷电路的长度形成槽,以帮助增加由柔性印刷电路显示的最小弯曲半径。 上下金属屏蔽层可以设置在金属迹线的上方和下方。

    Displays With Camera Window Openings
    20.
    发明申请
    Displays With Camera Window Openings 有权
    显示与相机窗口打开

    公开(公告)号:US20140225131A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-08-14

    申请号:US14151253

    申请日:2014-01-09

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A display may include a color filter layer, a liquid crystal layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. A camera window may be formed in the display to accommodate a camera. The camera window may be formed by creating a notch in the thin-film transistor layer that extends inwardly from the edge of the thin-film transistor layer. The notch may be formed by scribing the thin-film transistor layer around the notch location and breaking away a portion of the thin-film transistor layer. A camera window may also be formed by grinding a hole in the display. The hole may penetrate partway into the thin-film transistor layer, may penetrate through the transistor layer but not into the color filter layer, or may pass through the thin-film transistor layer and partly into the color filter layer.

    Abstract translation: 显示器可以包括滤色器层,液晶层和薄膜晶体管层。 可以在显示器中形成相机窗口以容纳相机。 可以通过在薄膜晶体管层中形成从薄膜晶体管层的边缘向内延伸的凹口来形成相机窗口。 凹口可以通过在缺口位置周围刻划薄膜晶体管层并分离薄膜晶体管层的一部分来形成。 也可以通过研磨显示器中的孔来形成相机窗口。 该孔可以穿透薄膜晶体管层的中间部分,可以穿透晶体管层而不会进入滤色器层,或者可以穿过薄膜晶体管层并且部分地穿过滤色器层。

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