公开(公告)号：US20180232009A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-16

申请号：US15952111

申请日：2018-04-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Bryan W. Posner ,  Keith J. Hendren ,  Adam T. Garelli ,  Joss Nathan Giddings ,  Thomas W. Wilson, JR. ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Jun Qi ,  Paul Xiaopeng Wang

IPC: G06F1/16

CPC classification number: G06F1/1637 ,  G06F1/1601 ,  G06F1/1616 ,  G06F2200/1612 ,  H04M1/0266 ,  H04M1/185 ,  H05K5/02

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing in which a display is mounted. A gasket may be mounted in a groove between the display and housing. The gasket may contain an embedded stiffener. Corner brackets may be installed in the corners of the housing. The housing may have inner and outer concentric ribs. Recesses in the housing may be configured to receive the corner brackets. The recesses may be formed between the inner and outer concentric ribs. Gap filling structures such as a foam layer may be interposed between a rear housing wall and a display backlight unit. Display color variations may be corrected by using a backlight unit having an array of light-emitting diodes of different colors. An electrostatic discharge protection layer may be grounded to a housing using conductive tape. Black edge coatings and adhesive-based structures may block stray light. Camera window regions may be supported using adhesive.

公开(公告)号：US20180217669A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-02

申请号：US15939082

申请日：2018-03-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Christiaan A. Ligtenberg ,  Brett W. Degner ,  Ron A. Hopkinson ,  Asif Hussain ,  Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Mikael M. Silvanto ,  Chang Zhang ,  Zheng Gao ,  Robert Y. Cao

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H01H13/85 ,  H01H13/785 ,  H03K17/96

CPC classification number: G06F3/016 ,  G06F1/1616 ,  G06F1/165 ,  G06F1/1662 ,  G06F1/169 ,  G06F1/266 ,  G06F3/017 ,  G06F3/0213 ,  G06F3/0216 ,  G06F3/03547 ,  G06F3/0412 ,  G06F3/0414 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/04886 ,  G06F2203/04102 ,  G06F2203/04105 ,  G06F2203/04106 ,  G06K9/00375 ,  H01H3/125 ,  H01H13/703 ,  H01H13/705 ,  H01H13/785 ,  H01H13/85 ,  H01H13/86 ,  H01H2201/036 ,  H01H2215/05 ,  H01H2215/052 ,  H01H2219/002 ,  H01H2219/004 ,  H01H2219/046 ,  H01H2219/056 ,  H01H2223/002 ,  H01L41/09 ,  H03K17/943 ,  H03K17/9622 ,  H03K17/9643 ,  H03K17/9647 ,  H03K17/98 ,  H03K2217/94089 ,  H03K2217/96003 ,  H03K2217/9653

Abstract: A device includes a display portion that includes a display housing and a display within the display housing. The device also includes a base portion flexibly coupled to the display portion and comprising a glass member defining a keyboard region configured to receive user input, a first haptic actuator configured to produce a first haptic output at a first area of the keyboard region, and a second haptic actuator configured to produce a second haptic output at a second area of the keyboard region that is different from the first area.

公开(公告)号：US10019038B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-10

申请号：US15269940

申请日：2016-09-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Adam T. Garelli ,  Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Robert Y. Cao ,  Simon Lancaster Larocque

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  E05D11/00 ,  G06F1/20

CPC classification number: G06F1/1681 ,  E05D11/0054 ,  E05D11/0081 ,  E05D2011/0072 ,  G06F1/1616 ,  G06F1/1637 ,  G06F1/1662 ,  G06F1/1683 ,  G06F1/203

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with upper and lower housing portions that are separated by a gap. Hinge structures may allow the upper housing portion to rotate between a closed position and an open position. A flexible printed circuit in the electronic device may be coupled between components in the upper housing portion such as the display and components in the lower housing portion and may span the gap. A hinge gap cover may cover the gap and may overlap the flexible printed circuit to block the flexible printed circuit from view when the upper housing portion is in the closed position. The hinge gap cover may be formed from a layer of radio-transparent material that is rotatably coupled to the upper housing portion and that is biased towards the lower housing with a spring structure.

公开(公告)号：US20180164882A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-14

申请号：US15835046

申请日：2017-12-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Paul V. Johnson ,  Yuan Chen ,  Bryan W. Posner ,  Cheng Chen ,  Chia Hsuan Tai ,  Jiaying Wu ,  Robert Y. Cao ,  Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang ,  Shih-Wei Chang ,  Xiaokai Li ,  Zhibing Ge ,  Dinesh C. Mathew

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G02F1/00 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/1335

CPC classification number: G06F3/013 ,  G02F1/0045 ,  G02F1/0063 ,  G02F1/13338 ,  G02F1/133536 ,  G02F1/13475 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. Input-output circuitry in the electronic device may be used to gather input from a viewer of the display. The input-output circuitry may include a gaze tracking system that gathers point-of-gaze information, vergence information, and head position information, may be a biometric sensor, may be an input device such as a button or touch sensor, may capture hand gestures, and/or may gather other information. The display may include a pixel array for producing images. An adjustable reflectance and transmittance layer may overlap the pixel array. Control circuitry in the electronic device may individually adjust different areas of the adjustable reflectance and transmittance layer. The control circuitry may place each area in a reflective mirror more or in a content-displaying mode and may move the areas in response to the information.

公开(公告)号：US09990001B2

公开(公告)日：2018-06-05

申请号：US14754455

申请日：2015-06-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Bryan W. Posner ,  Keith J. Hendren ,  Adam T. Garelli ,  Joss Nathan Giddings ,  Thomas W. Wilson, Jr. ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Jun Qi ,  Meizi Jiao ,  Paul Xiaopeng Wang

IPC: F21V7/04 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H05K5/02 ,  H04M1/02 ,  H04M1/18

CPC classification number: G06F1/1637 ,  G06F1/1601 ,  G06F1/1616 ,  G06F2200/1612 ,  H04M1/0266 ,  H04M1/185 ,  H05K5/02

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing in which a display is mounted. A gasket may be mounted in a groove between the display and housing. The gasket may contain an embedded stiffener. Corner brackets may be installed in the corners of the housing. The housing may have inner and outer concentric ribs. Recesses in the housing may be configured to receive the corner brackets. The recesses may be formed between the inner and outer concentric ribs. Gap filling structures such as a foam layer may be interposed between a rear housing wall and a display backlight unit. Display color variations may be corrected by using a backlight unit having an array of light-emitting diodes of different colors. An electrostatic discharge protection layer may be grounded to a housing using conductive tape. Black edge coatings and adhesive-based structures may block stray light. Camera window regions may be supported using adhesive.

公开(公告)号：US20170090106A1

公开(公告)日：2017-03-30

申请号：US15261972

申请日：2016-09-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Robert Y. Cao ,  Craig C. Leong ,  Bradford J. Zercoe ,  Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Mahesh Krishnamurthi ,  Jun Qi ,  Rong Liu ,  Victor H. Yin

IPC: F21V8/00 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H01H13/83 ,  H01H13/7065 ,  H01H13/02 ,  H01H13/14

CPC classification number: G02B6/0061 ,  G02B6/0038 ,  G02B6/0045 ,  G06F1/1662 ,  H01H13/023 ,  H01H13/14 ,  H01H13/7065 ,  H01H13/83 ,  H01H2219/056 ,  H01H2219/06 ,  H01H2219/062 ,  H01H2219/0622

Abstract: Described is an illumination structure for a key of a keyboard. The illumination structure is used to uniformly illuminate the key and any glyphs that are present on the key. The illumination structure includes a light guide having various features that increase total internal reflection and also illuminate the glyphs of the key.

公开(公告)号：US09312517B2

公开(公告)日：2016-04-12

申请号：US14177681

申请日：2014-02-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Paul S. Drzaic ,  Adam T. Garelli ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Dinesh C. Mathew

IPC: H01L51/52 ,  H01L27/32

CPC classification number: H01L51/5284 ,  H01L27/3244 ,  H01L51/5281

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may have an active area with an array of display pixels and an inactive border region containing metal lines and other support circuitry. The array of display pixels may be formed from organic light-emitting diode structures in an organic-light-emitting diode layer. The display may also include an encapsulant layer on the organic light-emitting diode layer and a substrate layer. An opaque masking layer may be formed in the inactive border region. The opaque masking layer may overlap structures in the inactive border region such as the support circuitry, thereby blocking the support circuitry from view. The opaque masking layer may be formed a glass layer in the display, in part of a polarizer in a display, under a planarization layer, or between other layers in the display.

Abstract translation: 电子设备可以设置有显示器。 显示器可以具有具有显示像素阵列的活动区域和包含金属线路和其他支持电路的无效边界区域。 显示像素阵列可以由有机发光二极管层中的有机发光二极管结构形成。 显示器还可以包括有机发光二极管层上的密封剂层和基底层。 不透明掩模层可以形成在非活性边界区域中。 不透明掩模层可以与诸如支持电路的无效边界区域中的结构重叠，从而阻止支持电路的视图。 不透明掩模层可以在显示器中，在显示器中的偏振器的一部分，平坦化层下方或在显示器中的其它层之间形成玻璃层。

公开(公告)号：US09292044B2

公开(公告)日：2016-03-22

申请号：US13896946

申请日：2013-05-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Keith J. Hendren ,  Jun Qi ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Thomas Wilson, Jr. ,  Adam T. Garelli

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  H04M1/02 ,  G02F1/133

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. Inactive portions of the display such as peripheral portions of the display may be masked using an opaque masking layer. An opening may be provided in the opaque masking layer to allow light to pass. For example, a logo may be viewed through an opening in the opaque masking layer and a camera may receive light through an opening in the opaque masking layer. The display may include upper and lower polarizers, a color filter layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. The opaque masking layer may be formed on the upper polarizer, may be interposed between the upper polarizer and the color filter layer, or may be interposed between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor layer. The upper polarizer may have unpolarized windows for cameras, logos, or other internal structures.

公开(公告)号：US09069525B2

公开(公告)日：2015-06-30

申请号：US14321533

申请日：2014-07-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Thomas W. Wilson, Jr. ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Bryan W. Posner ,  Chris Ligtenberg ,  Brett W. Degner ,  Peteris K. Augenbergs ,  John Z. Zhong ,  Steve Hotelling ,  Lynn Youngs ,  Kuo-Hua Sung

IPC: G02F1/1345 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H01J9/20 ,  G02F1/1335

CPC classification number: G06F1/1616 ,  G02F1/13306 ,  G02F1/133512 ,  G02F1/133514 ,  G02F1/133528 ,  G02F1/13452 ,  G02F1/13454 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F2001/133388 ,  G02F2203/01 ,  G06F1/1605 ,  G06F1/1613 ,  G06F1/1686 ,  H01J9/205 ,  H01J2211/44 ,  Y10T156/108

Abstract: An electronic device display may have a color filter layer and a thin film transistor layer. A layer of liquid crystal material may be interposed between the color filter layer and the thin film transistor layer. A layer of polarizer may be laminated onto the surface of the color filter layer. Laser trimming may ensure that the edges of the polarizer are even with the edges of the color filter layer. The thin film transistor layer may have an array of thin film transistors that control pixels of the liquid crystal material in the display. Driver circuitry may be used to control the array. The driver circuitry may be encapsulated in a planarized encapsulant on the thin film transistor layer or may be mounted to the underside of the color filter layer. Conductive structures may connect driver circuitry on the color filter layer to the thin film transistor layer.

Abstract translation: 电子设备显示器可以具有滤色器层和薄膜晶体管层。 可以在滤色器层和薄膜晶体管层之间插入一层液晶材料。 偏振片层可以层叠在滤色器层的表面上。 激光修整可以确保偏光片的边缘与滤色器层的边缘均匀。 薄膜晶体管层可以具有控制显示器中的液晶材料的像素的薄膜晶体管阵列。 驱动器电路可用于控制阵列。 驱动器电路可以封装在薄膜晶体管层上的平面化密封剂中，或者可以安装到滤色器层的下侧。 导电结构可以将滤色器层上的驱动电路连接到薄膜晶体管层。

公开(公告)号：US20140118264A1

公开(公告)日：2014-05-01

申请号：US14058316

申请日：2013-10-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Craig C. Leong ,  James J. Niu ,  John M. Brock ,  Keith J. Hendren ,  Thomas W. Wilson, JR. ,  Bartley K. Andre ,  Mikael Silvanto ,  Dinesh C. Mathew

IPC: G06F3/02 ,  H01H13/83 ,  H01H13/70

CPC classification number: G06F3/021 ,  G06F3/0202 ,  G06F3/0238 ,  G06F3/044 ,  H01H13/70 ,  H01H13/83

Abstract: Multi-functional keyboard assemblies include an array of keys formed from stacked component layers. A top portion of the key may be capable of travelling vertically with respect to a base of the key. The top portion can include a keycap and a circuitry module coupled to the keycap. The keys may be capable of receive at least two distinct types of inputs and/or receiving at least one type of input and providing at least one type of output. Such output may include use of one or more light sources, displays, and/or haptic feedback devices.

Abstract translation: 多功能键盘组件包括由堆叠的组件层形成的键阵列。 键的顶部可以相对于键的基座垂直地行进。 顶部可以包括键帽和耦合到键帽的电路模块。 密钥可以能够接收至少两种不同类型的输入和/或接收至少一种类型的输入并且提供至少一种类型的输出。 这种输出可以包括使用一个或多个光源，显示器和/或触觉反馈装置。