Electronic Device With Infrared Transparent One-Way Mirror

    公开(公告)号:US20190353836A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-21

    申请号:US16298992

    申请日:2019-03-11

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device or other equipment may include an infrared-transparent one-way mirror. The infrared-transparent one-way mirror may be formed by a layer of material that is supported by a head-mounted support structure or other support structure. The support structure may support the layer of material so that the layer of material separates an exterior region from an interior region. Optical components in the interior region may be overlapped by the layer of material. The optical components may include visible light components such as a visible light camera and infrared components such as an infrared light-emitting device and an infrared light sensor. The optical components may operate through the layer of material while being hidden from view by the reflective appearance of the one way mirror from the exterior region.

    Electronic Devices With Glass Layer Coatings
    72.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190278008A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-12

    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 device structures with oleophobic coatings

    公开(公告)号:US10348943B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-09

    申请号:US15218768

    申请日:2016-07-25

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device may have components such as a display, a camera, a button, and other electrical components. A transparent crystalline member such as a layer of aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide, or other crystalline dielectric structure may overlap an electrical component and may serve as a display cover layer, button cover member, or window member. An annealed adhesion layer such as an annealed inorganic layer may be formed on a crystalline dielectric member. The annealed adhesion layer may help adhere an oleophobic coating to the transparent crystalline member.

    Patterned glass layers in electronic devices

    公开(公告)号:US10292286B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-14

    申请号:US15841117

    申请日:2017-12-13

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    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.

    Ambient light sensor window coatings for electronic devices

    公开(公告)号:US10288476B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-14

    申请号:US15293204

    申请日:2016-10-13

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with a cover layer. An ambient light sensor may be aligned with an ambient light sensor window formed from an opening in a masking layer on the cover layer in an inactive portion of the display. To help mask the ambient light sensor window from view, the ambient light sensor window may be provided with a black coating that matches the appearance of surrounding masking layer material while allowing light to reach the ambient light sensor. The black coating may be formed from a black physical vapor deposition thin-film inorganic layer with a high index of refraction. An antireflection layer formed from a stack of dielectric layers may be interposed between the black thin-film inorganic layer and the display cover layer.

    Patterned Glass Layers in Electronic Devices
    76.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190037720A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-31

    申请号:US15841117

    申请日:2017-12-13

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    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.

    Electronic Device Structures With Oleophobic Coatings

    公开(公告)号:US20180027150A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-25

    申请号:US15218768

    申请日:2016-07-25

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04N5/2252

    Abstract: An electronic device may have components such as a display, a camera, a button, and other electrical components. A transparent crystalline member such as a layer of aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide, or other crystalline dielectric structure may overlap an electrical component and may serve as a display cover layer, button cover member, or window member. An annealed adhesion layer such as an annealed inorganic layer may be formed on a crystalline dielectric member. The annealed adhesion layer may help adhere an oleophobic coating to the transparent crystalline member.

    Crack mitigation in an optically transparent exterior of a portable electronic device
    79.
    发明授权
    Crack mitigation in an optically transparent exterior of a portable electronic device 有权
    在便携式电子设备的光学透明外部的破裂缓解

    公开(公告)号:US09575507B1

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-21

    申请号:US14843962

    申请日:2015-09-02

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F1/1626 G06F1/1656

    Abstract: A cover glass including a center region and an outer region abutting the center region at an interface. The interface inhibits crack propagation from the outer region to the center region and vice versa. In another embodiment the cover glass may include mitigation voids introduced into the cover glass to inhibit crack propagation. The interface may be formed from the mitigation voids.

    Abstract translation: 一种覆盖玻璃,其包括在界面处邻接所述中心区域的中心区域和外部区域。 界面抑制从外部区域到中心区域的裂纹扩展,反之亦然。 在另一个实施例中,盖玻璃可以包括引入到盖玻璃中以抑制裂纹扩展的缓解空隙。 接口可以由缓解空隙形成。

    LASER POLISHING CERAMIC MATERIAL
    80.
    发明申请
    LASER POLISHING CERAMIC MATERIAL 审中-公开
    激光抛光陶瓷材料

    公开(公告)号:US20170029327A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-02

    申请号:US14812914

    申请日:2015-07-29

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: C30B29/20 C30B33/02

    Abstract: Systems and methods for polishing a ceramic component using a laser. The ceramic component may include a planar region that is polished using, for example, a mechanical or chemical mechanical polishing operation to produce a polished face. A contoured region that is adjacent to the planar region may be irradiated using a laser to heat the ceramic material within the contoured region. The irradiation may reduce the surface roughness of the contoured region to produce a polished surface. The ceramic component may be heated prior to being irradiated with the laser to reduce thermal gradients within the ceramic component.

    Abstract translation: 使用激光抛光陶瓷部件的系统和方法。 陶瓷部件可以包括使用例如机械或化学机械抛光操作来抛光的平面区域,以产生抛光面。 可以使用激光照射与平面区域相邻的轮廓区域,以加热轮廓区域内的陶瓷材料。 照射可以减小轮廓区域的表面粗糙度以产生抛光表面。 可以在用激光照射之前加热陶瓷部件以降低陶瓷部件内的热梯度。

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