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公开(公告)号：US20230209880A1
公开(公告)日：2023-06-29
申请号：US18177676
申请日：2023-03-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Tseng-Mau Yang , Christopher D. Prest , Dale N. Memering
IPC: H10K50/858 , G02F1/1333 , G02F1/1335 , H10K50/84 , H10K50/842 , H10K59/40
CPC classification number: H10K50/858 , G02F1/133308 , G02F1/133526 , H10K50/84 , H10K50/8428 , H10K59/40 , G02F1/133331
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may have an array of display pixels that provide image light to a user. The array of display pixels may form an active display structure with a rectangular shape. The rectangular active display structure may be surrounded by an inactive border region. Optical structures such as a sheet of glass or another optical member may have portions that are configured to bend light from the display pixels along the periphery of the active display structure. The optical member may have an area that is larger than the area of the active display structure, so that the presence of the optical member may serve to enlarge the apparent size of the display. Solidified liquid polymer may be used to support the optical structures and may be interposed between the optical structures and the active display structures.
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公开(公告)号：US20220304175A1
公开(公告)日：2022-09-22
申请号：US17805641
申请日：2022-06-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Eric W. Hamann , Abhijeet Misra , Anthony D. Prescenzi , Brian M. Gable , Christopher D. Prest , Hoishun Li , James A. Yurko , Lee E. Hooton , Michael B. Wittenberg , Richard H. Dinh , Jennifer D. Schuler
Abstract: A component for an electronic device can include a pre-formed substrate comprising a first metal and an additively manufactured portion bonded to the pre-formed substrate. The additively manufactured portion can include a first portion comprising a second metal and defining a volume, the first portion having a first value of a material property, and a second portion disposed in the volume, the second portion having a second value of the material property that is different from the first value.
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公开(公告)号：US20220232698A1
公开(公告)日：2022-07-21
申请号：US17716855
申请日：2022-04-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： James R. Wilson , Christopher D. Prest , Marta M. Giachino , Matthew S. Rogers , Que Anh S. Nguyen
IPC: H05K1/03 , H05K5/00 , G09F3/02 , G02B5/28 , C03C17/22 , C03C27/10 , H04M1/02 , H05K5/02 , H05K5/03
Abstract: An electronic device may include electrical components and other components mounted within an interior of a housing. The device may have a display on a front face of the device and may have a glass layer that forms part of the housing on a rear face of the device. The glass layer may be provided with regions having different appearances. The regions may be textured, may have coatings such as thin-film interference filter coatings formed from stacks of dielectric material having alternating indices of refraction, may have metal coating layers, and/or may have ink coating layers. Textured surfaces may be formed on thin glass layers and polymer films that are coupled to the glass layer. A glass layer may be formed from a pair of coupled glass layers. The coupled layers may have one or more recesses or other structures to visually distinguish different regions of the glass layer.
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公开(公告)号：US11247937B2
公开(公告)日：2022-02-15
申请号：US15600204
申请日：2017-05-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Victor Luzzato , Christopher D. Prest , Dale N. Memering , Matthew S. Rogers
Abstract: Asymmetrically strengthened glass articles, methods for producing the same, and use of the articles in portable electronic device is disclosed. Using a budgeted amount of compressive stress and tensile stress, asymmetric chemical strengthening is optimized for the utility of a glass article. In some aspects, the strengthened glass article can be designed for reduced damage, or damage propagation, when dropped.
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公开(公告)号：US11112830B2
公开(公告)日：2021-09-07
申请号：US16774180
申请日：2020-01-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Christopher D. Prest , Tseng-Mau Yang , Dale N. Memering
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may have an array of display pixels that provide image light to a user. The array of display pixels may form an active display structure with a rectangular shape. The rectangular active display structure may be surrounded by an inactive border region. Optical structures such as upper structures formed from a sheet of glass and lower optical structures that lie beneath the sheet of glass may be configured to bend light from the display pixels along the periphery of the active display structure. The upper optical structures may have an area that is larger than the area of the active display structure, so that the presence of the optical structures may serve to enlarge the apparent size of the display. The lower and upper optical structures may have curved surfaces for bending the light.
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公开(公告)号：US10600997B2
公开(公告)日：2020-03-24
申请号：US15234955
申请日：2016-08-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Tseng-Mau Yang , Christopher D. Prest , Dale N. Memering
IPC: H01L51/52 , G02F1/1333 , G02F1/1335 , H01L27/32
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may have an array of display pixels that provide image light to a user. The array of display pixels may form an active display structure with a rectangular shape. The rectangular active display structure may be surrounded by an inactive border region. Optical structures such as a sheet of glass or another optical member may have portions that are configured to bend light from the display pixels along the periphery of the active display structure. The optical member may have an area that is larger than the area of the active display structure, so that the presence of the optical member may serve to enlarge the apparent size of the display. Solidified liquid polymer may be used to support the optical structures and may be interposed between the optical structures and the active display structures.
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公开(公告)号：US20200084885A1
公开(公告)日：2020-03-12
申请号：US16680312
申请日：2019-11-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： James R. Wilson , Christopher D. Prest , Marta M. Giachino , Matthew S. Rogers , Que Anh S. Nguyen
IPC: H05K1/03 , H05K5/03 , H05K5/02 , H04M1/02 , C03C27/10 , C03C17/22 , G02B5/28 , G09F3/02 , H05K5/00
Abstract: An electronic device may include electrical components and other components mounted within an interior of a housing. The device may have a display on a front face of the device and may have a glass layer that forms part of the housing on a rear face of the device. The glass layer may be provided with regions having different appearances. The regions may be textured, may have coatings such as thin-film interference filter coatings formed from stacks of dielectric material having alternating indices of refraction, may have metal coating layers, and/or may have ink coating layers. Textured surfaces may be formed on thin glass layers and polymer films that are coupled to the glass layer. A glass layer may be formed from a pair of coupled glass layers. The coupled layers may have one or more recesses or other structures to visually distinguish different regions of the glass layer.
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公开(公告)号：US20200084533A1
公开(公告)日：2020-03-12
申请号：US16681749
申请日：2019-11-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： M. Evans Hankey , Emery A. Sanford , Christopher D. Prest , Way Chet Lim
Abstract: An apparatus for charging a portable wireless listening device including a housing having a socket to receive the portable wireless listening device; a battery; wireless circuitry that enables the apparatus to communicate wirelessly with a host device; power transmitting circuitry configured to provide power to the portable wireless listening device when the device is received in the socket to charge a battery within the portable wireless listening device; and a processor configured to configured to establish a wireless communication protocol between the portable wireless listening device and the host device.
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公开(公告)号：US20200071838A1
公开(公告)日：2020-03-05
申请号：US16539944
申请日：2019-08-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Brian S. Tryon , Isabel Yang , Todd Mintz , Jeremy Li , Brian Gable , Lijie Bao , Yi Chen , Christopher D. Prest , James Yurko
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may include a conductive housing. A corrosion-resistant coating may be deposited on the conductive housing. The coating may include transition layers and an uppermost alloy layer. The transition layers may include a chromium seed layer on the conductive housing and a chromium nitride layer on the chromium seed layer. The uppermost alloy layer may include TiCrCN or other alloys and may provide the coating with desired optical reflection and absorption characteristics. The transition layers may include a minimal number of coating defects, thereby eliminating potential sites at which visible defects could form when exposed to salt water. This may allow the electronic device to exhibit a desired color and to be submerged in salt water without producing undesirable visible defects on the conductive housing structures.
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50.发明授权公开(公告)号：US10566687B2
公开(公告)日：2020-02-18
申请号：US15917083
申请日：2018-03-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Colin M. Ely , Christopher D. Prest , Lucy E. Browning , Stephen B. Lynch , Eric S. Laakmann , Paul L. Nangeroni
Abstract: A housing for an electronic device, including an aluminum layer enclosing a volume that includes a radio-frequency (RF) antenna is provided. The housing includes a window aligned with the RF antenna; the window including a non-conductive material filling a cavity in the aluminum layer; and a thin aluminum oxide layer adjacent to the aluminum layer and to the non-conductive material; wherein the non-conductive material and the thin aluminum oxide layer form an RF-transparent path through the window. A housing for an electronic device including an integrated RF-antenna is also provided. A method of manufacturing a housing for an electronic device as described above is provided.
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