公开(公告)号：US20240317181A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-26

申请号：US18598433

申请日：2024-03-07

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Paul M. Connolly ,  Prabhakar Gulgunje ,  Vijayen S. Veerasamy

IPC: B60S1/34 ,  B60S1/08

CPC classification number: B60S1/3411 ,  B60S1/0818 ,  B60S1/0896

Abstract: A cleaning system includes an arm configured for connection to a cleaning implement. A base is spaced from the arm in an extension direction such that the cleaning implement is positionable between the arm and the base. The base and the arm are configured to move together in the extension direction between a recessed position and a raised position relative to a surface, and the arm is configured to rotate relative to the base in the raised position.

公开(公告)号：US20230406761A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-21

申请号：US18193507

申请日：2023-03-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Vijayen S. Veerasamy ,  Peter F. Masschelein

IPC: C03C17/36

CPC classification number: C03C17/3613 ,  C03C17/3626 ,  C03C17/3618 ,  C03C17/3639 ,  C03C17/3642 ,  C03C17/3644 ,  C03C17/3652 ,  C03C17/366 ,  C03C17/3681 ,  C03C2217/211 ,  C03C2217/216 ,  C03C2217/78 ,  C03C2218/153 ,  C03C2218/156

Abstract: A transparent structure may have structural layers such as an inner layer and an outer layer, which may be formed from glass. The transparent structure may be curved. At least one of the inner layer and the outer layer may be coated with an infrared reflection coating. The infrared reflection coating may be formed from multiple optical resonators. Each of the resonators may include two half-mirrors separated by a dielectric layer. The half-mirrors may include infrared reflective material, such as silver. At least some of the resonators may additionally include a getter layer. The getter layer may be formed from amorphous material, nanoparticles in dielectric material, or other desired material, and may protect the infrared reflective material while the infrared reflection coating is being deposited. Additionally, the getter layer may reduce the color shift exhibited by high angle light as it passes through the transparent structure.

公开(公告)号：US20240077661A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-07

申请号：US18340167

申请日：2023-06-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Vijayen S. Veerasamy

IPC: G02B5/28 ,  B60J1/00 ,  B60J1/20

CPC classification number: G02B5/281 ,  B60J1/001 ,  B60J1/20 ,  H04B1/3822

Abstract: A system may have a support structure and a window that separate an exterior region from an interior region. The window may have one or more glass layers with a thin-film interference filter that is configured to block infrared light while transmitting visible light. The filter may be transparent to radio-frequency signals so that a radio-frequency transceiver in the interior may transmit and receive radio-frequency signals through the filter. The filter may have one or more thin-film metal layers such as one or more thin-film crystalline silver layers that are patterned to form isolated metal islands and may have transparent inorganic thin-film dielectric layers interspersed with the metal layers.

公开(公告)号：US20220340482A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-27

申请号：US17697064

申请日：2022-03-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Martin Melcher ,  Vijayen S. Veerasamy

IPC: C03C17/245 ,  G02B5/28

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 and/or facing surfaces of the transparent glass layers. A coating on a transparent glass layer may be formed from one or more PVD layers. A buffer layer that includes a hybrid material with an organic component may be interposed between the glass layer and the PVD layers to increase the retained bend strength of the glass layer. Alternatively or additionally, the PVD layers may form a thin-film interference filter, and some of the PVD layers may be formed from the hybrid material to increase the retained bend strength of the glass layer.

公开(公告)号：US20240092688A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-21

申请号：US18447918

申请日：2023-08-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Vijayen S. Veerasamy

IPC: C03C17/09

CPC classification number: C03C17/09 ,  C03C2217/256 ,  C03C2218/154

Abstract: A transparent structure may have multiple layers, such as an inner layer and an outer layer, which may be formed from glass. The transparent structure may have a large, curved surface with compound curvature and high geometric strain and may include one or more layers. To apply a physical vapor deposition coating with uniform thickness on a curved surface, cathode power may be modulated during the deposition, a mask having an opening with a curvature matching the curved surface may be used, a cathode shape may be varied, the cathodes may sputter the coating outwardly toward the curved surface, a magnetic field may modulate the flux produced by the cathodes, and/or the pressure and/or flow of gas may be adjusted. By modifying the physical vapor deposition coater in one or more of these ways, the coating may have a uniform thickness, and therefore a uniform color, across the curved surface.