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公开(公告)号:US12093359B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-17
申请号:US17471031
申请日:2021-09-09
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Timothy D. Koch , Dylan L. Magida , Michael B. Wittenberg , Henry H. Yang , Alvin T. Chang , Steven C. Roach , Jared P. Ostdiek
CPC分类号: G06F21/32 , G06F1/1626 , G06F1/1656 , G06V40/13 , H04B1/3827 , H04B2001/3894
摘要: A portable electronic device may include a housing member defining a side surface of the portable electronic device, a portion of the housing member defining a side wall of a hole extending through the housing member, a button member positioned along the side surface and defining a chassis portion and a hollow post extending into the hole defined through the housing member, and a first waterproof seal defined between the hollow post and the side wall of the hole. The portable electronic device may also include a biometric sensing component coupled to the chassis portion, a flexible circuit element extending through the hollow post and conductively coupling the biometric sensing component to a component within the housing, and a second waterproof seal defined within the hollow post.
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公开(公告)号:US20240304128A1
公开(公告)日:2024-09-12
申请号:US18667315
申请日:2024-05-17
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Ying-Chih Wang , Michael J. Brown , Michael B. Wittenberg , Paul C. Kelley , Rasamy Phouthavong , Tyler R. Kakuda , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Marwan Rammah
CPC分类号: G09G3/20 , G02B6/0006 , G02B6/0008 , G02B2006/12111 , G09F9/301
摘要: An electronic device may have a display with pixels configured to display an image. The pixels may be overlapped by a cover layer. The display may have peripheral edges with curved cross-sectional profiles. An inactive area in the display may be formed along a peripheral edge of the display or may be surrounded by the pixels. Electrical components such as optical components may be located in the inactive area. An image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may overlap the pixels, may have an opening that overlaps portions of the inactive area, may have an output surface that overlap portions of the inactive area, and/or may convey light associated with optical components in the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号:US12074363B2
公开(公告)日:2024-08-27
申请号:US18109168
申请日:2023-02-13
申请人: Apple Inc.
CPC分类号: H01Q1/243 , B29C45/14311 , B29C45/14467 , G06F1/1626 , G06F1/1633 , G06F1/1656 , H04M1/0249 , H04M1/0283 , B29C37/0082 , B29L2031/34 , B29L2031/3437 , G06F2200/1633
摘要: A housing for an electronic device is disclosed. The housing comprises a first component and a second component separated from the first component by a gap. The housing also includes a first molded element disposed at least partially within the gap and defining at least a portion of an interlock feature, and a second molded element disposed at least partially within the gap and mechanically engaging the interlock feature. The first component, the second component, and the second molded element form a portion of an exterior surface of the housing. A method of forming the housing is also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US11774644B1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-03
申请号:US16902091
申请日:2020-06-15
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Michael J. Brown , Michael B. Wittenberg , Wei Lin , Salman Karbasi , Shubhaditya Majumdar , Ian T. Clark , Nathan K. Gupta , Prabhakar Gulgunje , Chunchia Huang
CPC分类号: G02B5/003 , G02B1/14 , G02B6/02 , G02F1/0063 , H05K5/0017
摘要: An electronic device may have a housing with a display. A protective display cover layer for the display may have an image transport layer formed from fibers or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may include light absorbing material. Light absorbing material may be incorporated as an additive into a component of the image transport layer such as the binder layer of a coherent fiber bundle or the cladding of fibers in the image transport layer. The image transport layer may also be formed from fibers with a light absorbing layer formed in addition to a transparent cladding. The image transport layer may be formed from Anderson localization material that has light absorbing material. Fibers for the image transport layer may be extruded with light absorbing portions. A polymer preform having light absorbing material may be drawn to form fibers for the image transport layer.
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公开(公告)号:US11630537B2
公开(公告)日:2023-04-18
申请号:US17558103
申请日:2021-12-21
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Michael B. Wittenberg , Daniel J. Barrett , Erik G. de Jong , Lucy E. Browning , Marwan Rammah , Rasamy Phouthavong , Sameer Pandya
摘要: An electronic device may have light-emitting devices. A light-emitting device may include light-emitting diodes, a display, or other components that emit visual output. One or more image transport layers may be included in the electronic device. An image transport layer may have an input surface that receives an image and an output surface to which the image transport layer transports the image for viewing by a user. The image transport layers may have areas with compound curvature and other shapes. Deformed image transport layer structures such as deformed fibers in a coherent fiber bundle may be configured to hide gaps in displays and other structures. Displays may include light detectors that serve as a two-dimensional touch sensor. The touch sensor may detect touch input on an output surface of an image transport layer. Image transport layer material may be incorporated into buttons, elongated housings, wearable devices, and other equipment.
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公开(公告)号:US11527372B1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-13
申请号:US17181748
申请日:2021-02-22
申请人: Apple Inc.
摘要: An electronic device includes an enclosure and a keyboard positioned within the enclosure. The keyboard includes a substrate and a key mechanism. The key mechanism includes a keycap support mechanism, a keycap supported by the keycap support mechanism and movable relative to the substrate, a ferromagnetic component attached to the keycap support mechanism, and a selectively magnetizable magnet. The selectively magnetizable magnet system may include a magnetizable material and a coil configured to selectively magnetize and demagnetize the magnetizable material. The key mechanism may include a collapsible dome biasing the keycap toward the extended position.
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公开(公告)号:US11516908B1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-29
申请号:US16682146
申请日:2019-11-13
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Ying-Chih Wang , Michael J. Brown , Michael B. Wittenberg , Paul C. Kelley , Rasamy Phouthavong , Tyler R. Kakuda , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Marwan Rammah
IPC分类号: H05K1/02 , H01L51/52 , H05K5/00 , H05K5/03 , H05K1/18 , G02B6/06 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/041 , H01Q1/40
摘要: An electronic device may have a display with pixels configured to display an image. The pixels may be overlapped by a cover layer. An image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may overlap the pixels and may have an input surface that receives the image from the pixels and a corresponding output surface on which the received image is viewable through the cover layer. Circuitry may be embedded within the image transport layer. The circuitry that is embedded within the image transport layer may include capacitive touch sensor circuitry, antenna resonating element structures, input-output components, signal lines, and other circuitry.
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公开(公告)号:US20220329678A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-13
申请号:US17471789
申请日:2021-09-10
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Xuyang Zhang , Jason P. Shannon , Jon F. Housour , Robert F. Meyer , Owen D. Hale , Dale T. Morgan , Daniel Jarvis , Nicholas Merz , Benjamin Morse , Rasamy Phouthavong , Michael B. Wittenberg , David A. Pakula , Simon C. Helmore , Gareth L. Rose , Marwan Rammah , Melissa A. Wah , Jacob Barton , Ian A.. Spraggs
摘要: A portable electronic device includes a housing, a sensor array including a first camera module having a first field of view, a second camera module having a second field of view different from the first field of view, and a light source, and a rear cover formed from a glass material and defining a raised sensor array region positioned over the sensor array. The raised sensor array region defines a first hole extending through the rear cover and positioned proximate a first corner region of the raised sensor array region, and a second hole extending through the rear cover and positioned proximate a second corner region diagonal from the first corner region. The first camera module includes a first camera housing defining a recess at a corner of the first camera housing, and the second camera module includes a second camera housing extending into the recess.
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公开(公告)号:US20220283024A1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-08
申请号:US17471851
申请日:2021-09-10
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Jason B. Neevel , Christopher S. Tomasetta , Jonathan M. Lee , Ekaterina Pease , Nicholas Merz , Daniel Jarvis , Michael B. Wittenberg , Jared P. Ostdiek , Rasamy Phouthavong , David A. Pakula , Richard H. Koch , Marwan Rammah , Ian A. Spraggs , Laura M. Burke
摘要: A portable electronic device includes a housing, a front cover defining a front side of the portable electronic device, a display stack below the front cover and comprising a plurality of display layers configured to produce a graphical output in a display region of the display stack, the graphical output visible through the front cover, and a light sensor module positioned at least partially within the housing and coupled to the display stack in the display region. The light sensor module may be configured to receive ambient light passing through the front cover and through the plurality of display layers and, while a blanking interval is positioned over the light sensor module, produce an output corresponding to the received ambient light, the portable electronic device configured to determine an ambient light value based at least in part on the output from the light sensor module.
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公开(公告)号:US11071218B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-20
申请号:US16744564
申请日:2020-01-16
申请人: Apple Inc.
摘要: An electronic device may have a housing with portions that slide relative to each other. A display may be supported on a surface of the housing such as on a front face of the housing. The housing portions may slide between an unexpanded state in which the display has an unexpanded viewable area on the front face and an expanded state in which the display has an expanded viewable area on the front face that is greater than the unexpanded viewable area. The housing portions may have interior regions that contain electrical components. The display may be formed from a flexible display substrate. A portion of a flexible display may be stored in an interior region of the housing when the housing is in the unexpanded state. In the unexpanded state, the flexible display may have one or more bends and may double back on itself one or more times.
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