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公开(公告)号：US20220225523A1
公开(公告)日：2022-07-14
申请号：US17538557
申请日：2021-11-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Que Anh S. Nguyen , Michael B. Wittenberg
Abstract: A foldable display may have a display cover layer and a flexible display panel. The foldable display may bend around a bend axis. The display panel may have an array of pixels configured to display an image through the display cover layer. The display cover layer may be formed from a layer of glass. A recess may be formed in the layer of glass that extends along the bend axis. The recess may form a flexible locally thinned portion in the layer of glass that allows the glass layer to bend about the bend axis. To ensure that the display cover layer exhibits satisfactory impact resistance during drop events, corner portions of the display cover layer and other edge portions of the display cover layer may be provided with greater thickness relative to other portions of the display cover layer outside of the locally thinned portion.
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公开(公告)号：US20220225492A1
公开(公告)日：2022-07-14
申请号：US17542129
申请日：2021-12-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Que Anh S. Nguyen , Christian Weddeling , Hoon Sik Kim , Terry C. Lam
Abstract: A foldable electronic device may bend about a bend axis. A foldable display panel may be configured to bend along the bend axis as the foldable device is folded. A display cover layer may overlap the display panel. The display panel may have an array of pixels configured to display an image viewable through the display cover layer. The display cover layer may be formed from a layer of glass. A recess may be formed in the layer of glass that runs parallel to the bend axis and that overlaps the bend axis. The recess forms a flexible locally thinned portion in the glass that allows the display cover layer to bend. A rough surface texture and polymer coating may be provided in the recess. The recess may have shallowly sloping walls.
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公开(公告)号：US20220073423A1
公开(公告)日：2022-03-10
申请号：US17531389
申请日：2021-11-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew S. Rogers , Que Anh S. Nguyen
Abstract: An electronic device may include electrical components and other components mounted within 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 and other glass structures in the electronic device may be provided with coatings. An interior coating on a glass layer may include multiple layers of material such as an adhesion promotion layer, thin-film layers of materials such as silicon, niobium oxide and other metal oxides, and metals to help adjust the appearance of the coating. A metal layer may be formed on top of the coating to serve as an environmental protection layer and opacity enhancement layer. In some configurations, the coating may include four layers.
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公开(公告)号：US20200148588A1
公开(公告)日：2020-05-14
申请号：US16744944
申请日：2020-01-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew S. Rogers , Que Anh S. Nguyen
Abstract: An electronic device may include electrical components and other components mounted within 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 and other glass structures in the electronic device may be provided with coatings. An interior coating on a glass layer may include multiple layers of material such as an adhesion promotion layer, thin-film layers of materials such as silicon, niobium oxide and other metal oxides, and metals to help adjust the appearance of the coating. A metal layer may be formed on top of the coating to serve as an environmental protection layer and opacity enhancement layer. In some configurations, the coating may include four layers.
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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：US20190278098A1
公开(公告)日：2019-09-12
申请号：US16143812
申请日：2018-09-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Christopher D. Prest , Marta M. Giachino , Matthew S. Rogers , Que Anh S. Nguyen
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with optical markers. A marker may be formed from a coating. The coating may be patterned to form a two-dimensional optical code or may be patterned to form an outline or other recognizable marker structure that helps provide information about an electronic device. A device with a sensor such as a depth sensor or other sensor may gather information on the electronic device and its markers. This information may include information on images captured with an image sensor while the electronic device is illuminated by one or more light beams from the depth sensor or other light sources. Markers may be configured to serve as mixed reality optical markers in a mixed reality system. Analysis of the mixed reality marker images or other sensor data may reveal information on device type, device location, device size, device orientation, and other information on a marked device.
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47.发明授权公开(公告)号：US10401535B2
公开(公告)日：2019-09-03
申请号：US15617706
申请日：2017-06-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew S. Rogers , Naoto Matsuyuki , Que Anh S. Nguyen
Abstract: A graded index antireflection layer may be formed on a transparent crystalline member such as a sapphire member. The graded index layer may include aluminum oxide and silicon oxide. The graded index layer may extend from a first surface at the transparent member to a second surface. The fraction of aluminum oxide in the graded index layer may be at a maximum at the first surface so that the index of refraction of the graded index layer at the first surface matches the index of refraction of the transparent member and may be at a minimum at the second surface so the index of refraction of the graded index layer is minimized at the second surface. The graded index layer may be annealed to form aluminum oxide nanocrystals in the graded index layer and to form a polycrystalline aluminum oxide adhesion layer at the first surface.
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公开(公告)号：US10353123B2
公开(公告)日：2019-07-16
申请号：US15809886
申请日：2017-11-10
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：US20190169060A1
公开(公告)日：2019-06-06
申请号：US15986778
申请日：2018-05-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Christopher D. Jones , Matthew S. Rogers , Que Anh S. Nguyen
Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein are directed to forming selectively heat-treated glass-ceramic parts for use in an electronic device. In various embodiments, glass-ceramic parts, such as a cover sheet, may have multiple different regions having different objectives for material properties such as optical properties, strength, fracture toughness, hardness, and the like. Different regions may be selectively heat treated to achieve desired results.
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公开(公告)号：US20190079230A1
公开(公告)日：2019-03-14
申请号：US15900575
申请日：2018-02-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Que Anh S. Nguyen , Christopher D. Prest , Jody R. Akana , Marta M. Giachino , Matthew S. Rogers , Ove Lyngnes
Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing surrounding an interior in which electrical components are mounted. A display may be mounted to housing structures in the device. The housing may have a rear wall. The display cover layer and rear wall of the housing may be formed from transparent glass layers. Coatings may be formed on inwardly facing surfaces of the transparent glass layers. A coating on a transparent glass layer may be formed from a thin-film interference filter having a stack of dielectric layers. The coating may include an ink layer on the thin-film interference filter.
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