Peripheral housing for a computing device

    公开(公告)号:US10466749B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-05

    申请号:US16261523

    申请日:2019-01-29

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A computing device can include a housing including a peripheral housing defining an aperture, the peripheral housing having a constant cross-sectional area. The computing device can also include a display having a first major surface and a second major surface opposing the first major surface, the display disposed within the aperture defined by the peripheral housing and attached to the housing at one or more locations such that the first major surface and the second major surface of the display are substantially unobstructed by any other portion of the computing device.

    Portable Computer Display Structures
    82.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190294214A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-26

    申请号:US16437830

    申请日:2019-06-11

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device housing may have upper and lower portions that are attached with a hinge. At least one portion of the housing may have a rear planar surface and peripheral sidewalls having edges. A display module may be mounted in the housing. The display module may have glass layers such as a color filter glass layer and a thin-film transistor substrate. The color filter glass layer may serve as the outermost glass layer in the display module. The edges of the display module may be aligned with the edges of the peripheral housing sidewalls to create the appearance of a borderless display for the electronic device. The display module may be provided with an opening that allows a camera or other electronic components to receive light. Traces may be provided on the underside of the thin-film transistor substrate to serve as signal paths for the electrical components.

    Systems with low-friction matte flexible printed circuits

    公开(公告)号:US10120411B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-06

    申请号:US15243370

    申请日:2016-08-22

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device may include flexible printed circuits. A flexible printed circuit may have metal traces supported by a polymer substrate. The flexible printed circuit may extend between an upper laptop computer housing and a lower laptop computer housing or other structures that move relative to each other in an electronic device. The flexible printed circuit may have a low-friction coating and a matte finish. The flexible printed circuit may have a fluoropolymer coating on the polymer substrate, a fluoropolymer coating on a matte coating on the polymer substrate, a fluoropolymer coating that includes a matting agent on the polymer substrate, a fluoropolymer layer or other polymer layer that is attached to the substrate with a layer of adhesive, a textured surface layer, and/or other structures that help provide the flexible printed circuit with desired physical properties and a desired appearance.

    NARROW BORDER ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY
    85.
    发明申请
    NARROW BORDER ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY 审中-公开
    窄边界有机发光二极管显示器

    公开(公告)号:US20160079337A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-03-17

    申请号:US14948157

    申请日:2015-11-20

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided having an organic light-emitting diode display and control circuitry for operating the display. The display may include one or more display layers interposed between the control circuitry and a display layer having thin-film transistors. The electronic device may include a coupling structure interposed between the layer of thin-film transistors and the control circuitry that electrically couples the layer of thin-film transistors to the control circuitry. The coupling structure may include a dielectric member having a conductive via, a flexible printed circuit having a bent portion, or a conductive via formed in an encapsulation layer of the display. The display may include a layer of opaque masking material. The layer of opaque masking material may be formed on an encapsulation layer, an organic emissive layer, a thin-film transistor layer, or a glass layer of the organic light-emitting diode display.

    Abstract translation: 可以提供具有用于操作显示器的有机发光二极管显示器和控制电路的电子设备。 显示器可以包括插入在控制电路和具有薄膜晶体管的显示层之间的一个或多个显示层。 电子设备可以包括插入在薄膜晶体管层和将薄膜晶体管层电耦合到控制电路的控制电路之间的耦合结构。 耦合结构可以包括具有导电通孔的电介质构件,具有弯曲部分的柔性印刷电路或形成在显示器的封装层中的导电通孔。 显示器可以包括不透明掩模材料层。 不透明掩模材料层可以形成在有机发光二极管显示器的封装层,有机发光层,薄膜晶体管层或玻璃层上。

    Flexible Cables in Electronic Devices With Moving Components
    86.
    发明申请
    Flexible Cables in Electronic Devices With Moving Components 有权
    具有移动元件的电子设备中的柔性电缆

    公开(公告)号:US20160014915A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-01-14

    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。

    Border Structures for Displays
    87.
    发明申请
    Border Structures for Displays 有权
    显示器的边框结构

    公开(公告)号:US20150116639A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-04-30

    申请号:US14444765

    申请日:2014-07-28

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: G02F1/133512 G02F1/133528 G02F2001/133388

    Abstract: A display may have an active area surrounded by an inactive border area. The inactive border area may be provided with an opaque masking material. The display may be a liquid crystal display having a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. Upper and lower polarizers may be provided above and below the color filter and thin-film transistor layers. The upper polarizer may have a polarized central region that overlaps the active area of the display. The upper polarizer may also have an unpolarized portion in the inactive border area overlapping the opaque masking material. The opaque masking material may alternatively be formed on the underside of a clear polymer substrate that is attached to the display above the upper polarizer or may be incorporated within the layers that make up the upper polarizer.

    Abstract translation: 显示器可以具有被非活动边界区域包围的活动区域。 非活动边界区域可以设置有不透明掩模材料。 显示器可以是具有夹在滤色器层和薄膜晶体管层之间的液晶层的液晶显示器。 上下偏振器可以设置在滤色器和薄膜晶体管层的上方和下方。 上偏振器可以具有与显示器的有效区域重叠的偏振中心区域。 上偏振器还可以在非活性边界区域中具有与不透明掩模材料重叠的非偏振部分。 可选地,不透明掩模材料可以形成在透明聚合物基底的下侧上,该透明聚合物基底附着到上偏振器上方的显示器,或者可以结合在构成上偏振器的层内。

    Electronic Device With Injection Molded Display Trim
    88.
    发明申请
    Electronic Device With Injection Molded Display Trim 有权
    带注塑成型显示器的电子设备

    公开(公告)号:US20150049433A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-02-19

    申请号:US13967595

    申请日:2013-08-15

    Applicant: Apple, Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The electronic device may include a housing. A display trim may be formed from injection molded plastic that is molded directly onto the housing. The molded plastic trim may form a rectangular ring around the periphery of the housing. The housing may have angled or curved interior surfaces that are covered by the molded plastic trim. Computer-controlled positioners may be used to center the housing within an injection molding tool. Independently controlled positioners may also be used in capturing the housing between the lower die and the upper die in the injection molding tool. The injection molding tool may inject thermoplastic elastomer material into a channel in the upper die to form the plastic display trim.

    Abstract translation: 电子设备可以设置有显示器。 电子设备可以包括壳体。 显示装饰可以由直接模制在外壳上的注模塑料形成。 模制的塑料饰件可以围绕壳体的周边形成矩形环。 壳体可以具有被模制的塑料饰件覆盖的成角度或弯曲的内表面。 计算机控制的定位器可以用于将壳体居中在注射模制工具内。 独立控制的定位器也可用于在注射模制工具中捕获下模与上模之间的壳体。 注射成型工具可以将热塑性弹性体材料注入上模具中的通道以形成塑料显示镶边。

    Hinged Portable Electronic Device With Display Circuitry Located in Base
    89.
    发明申请
    Hinged Portable Electronic Device With Display Circuitry Located in Base 有权
    带显示电路的铰链便携式电子设备位于基地

    公开(公告)号:US20150049275A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-02-19

    申请号:US13968254

    申请日:2013-08-15

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing with a lid that rotates relative to a base. A display in the lid may have a thin-film transistor layer. Display driver circuitry may be mounted to the thin-film transistor layer. A display timing controller integrated circuit may be mounted in the base. A rigid flex printed circuit may have a rigid portion in the base to which the display timing controller integrated circuit is mounted and may have a rigid portion in the lid. A flexible printed circuit portion of the rigid flex printed circuit may be used to couple the rigid printed circuit portion in the lid to the thin-film transistor layer. A flexible printed circuit portion of the rigid flex printed circuit that extends between the lid and the base may be formed from a double-shield-layer single-signal-line-layer flexible printed circuit.

    Abstract translation: 电子设备可以具有具有相对于基座旋转的盖的壳体。 盖中的显示器可以具有薄膜晶体管层。 显示驱动器电路可以安装到薄膜晶体管层。 显示定时控制器集成电路可以安装在基座中。 刚性柔性印刷电路可以在基座中具有刚性部分,显示定时控制器集成电路安装在该基座上,并且可以在盖子中具有刚性部分。 可以使用刚性柔性印刷电路的柔性印刷电路部分将盖中的刚性印刷电路部分耦合到薄膜晶体管层。 刚性柔性印刷电路的柔性印刷电路部分可以在双层屏蔽层单信号线层柔性印刷电路之间形成,该柔性印刷电路部分在盖和基体之间延伸。

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