公开(公告)号：US20230307488A1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-28

申请号：US18161763

申请日：2023-01-30

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Young Cheol Yang ,  Young Seok Kim ,  Aaron L Holsteen ,  Cheng Cheng ,  Chin Wei Hsu ,  Hsin I Lu ,  Ileana G. Rau ,  Jaein Choi ,  James M Perkins ,  James P Ibbetson ,  Joy M Johnson ,  Jui-Chih Liao ,  Steven E Molesa ,  Sunggu Kang ,  Yang Deng ,  Zhibing Ge

IPC分类号： H01L27/15 ,  H01L33/58

CPC分类号： H01L27/156 ,  H01L33/58 ,  H01L2933/0091

摘要： An electronic device may have a display with an array of inorganic light-emitting diodes. The array of inorganic light-emitting diodes may be overlapped by a polarizer layer such as a circular polarizer. Alternatively, the display may be a polarizer-free display without any polarizer layer over the array of inorganic light-emitting diodes. Each inorganic light-emitting diode may be surrounded by a diffuser that redirects edge-emissions towards a viewer. A top diffuser, a color filter layer, a microlens, and/or a microlens with color filtering and/or diffusive properties may also optionally overlap each inorganic light-emitting diode. The inorganic light-emitting diodes may have reflective sidewalls to mitigate edge-emissions. In this type of arrangement, the array of inorganic light-emitting diodes may be coplanar with one or more opaque masking layers. To mitigate reflections, the display may include two opaque masking layers having differing properties or a single phase separated opaque masking layer.

公开(公告)号：US11460964B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-04

申请号：US16785277

申请日：2020-02-07

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Seung Jae Hong ,  Sunggu Kang ,  Martin Paul Grunthaner ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC分类号： G06F3/044 ,  B32B37/12 ,  G06F3/041 ,  H05K3/28 ,  B32B37/24

摘要： A touch sensitive device that includes a touch sensor having an opaque passivation layer is disclosed. The opaque passivation layer can be made from an organic or inorganic material, such as acrylic. The opaque passivation layer can be positioned in the touch sensitive device between the cover material of the device and conductive traces located on the touch sensor to hide the conductive traces from the user's view and protect the conductive traces from corrosion. Processes for making the touch sensitive devices that include a touch sensor having an opaque passivation layer are also disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US20220091308A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-24

申请号：US17031625

申请日：2020-09-24

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Tingjun Xu ,  Guocheng Shao ,  Rui L. Peterson ,  Serhan O. Isikman ,  Sunggu Kang ,  Tianbo Sun ,  Xianwei Zhao ,  Xingxing Cai

IPC分类号： G02B5/02 ,  G02B5/20 ,  G02B5/28 ,  G01J1/42 ,  H05K5/00 ,  G06F1/16

摘要： An electronic device may have a housing. Input-output devices may be mounted in the housing. The input-output devices may include a display with an array of pixels configured to display images for a user. The electronic device may have an optical component formed under a transparent region in the housing. The transparent region may be associated with an opening in an opaque masking layer in an inactive area of the display or other portion of the electronic device. A diffuser may be formed between the optical component and the transparent region. The diffuser may have a polymer layer with embedded thin-film interference filter flakes configured to scatter light and to exhibit desired reflection and transmission spectral.

公开(公告)号：US20220005894A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-06

申请号：US17475756

申请日：2021-09-15

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Jaein Choi ,  Hairong Tang ,  Gloria Wong ,  Sunggu Kang ,  Younggu Lee ,  Gwanwoo Park ,  Chun-Yao Huang ,  Andrew Lin ,  Cheuk Chi Lo ,  Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov ,  Michael Slootsky ,  Rui Liu ,  Wendi Chang ,  Cheng Chen

IPC分类号： H01L27/32 ,  H01L51/52

摘要： An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display may have an array of organic light-emitting diode pixels that each have OLED layers interposed between a cathode and an anode. Voltage may be applied to the anode of each pixel to control the magnitude of emitted light. The conductivity of the OLED layers may allow leakage current to pass between neighboring anodes in the display. To reduce leakage current and the accompanying cross-talk in a display, the pixel definition layer may disrupt continuity of the OLED layers. The pixel definition layer may have an undercut to disrupt continuity of some but not all of the OLED layers. The undercut may be defined by three discrete portions of the pixel definition layer. The undercut may result in a void that is interposed between different portions of the OLED layers to break a leakage path formed by the OLED layers.

公开(公告)号：US20210223904A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-22

申请号：US17224999

申请日：2021-04-07

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Isaac W. Chan ,  Chun-Hao Tung ,  Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  Sunggu Kang ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC分类号： G06F3/041 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/044 ,  H01L27/32 ,  H01L51/52

摘要： Display layers and touch sensor layers may be overlapped by enclosure walls in an electronic device. The electronic device may have a front wall and opposing rear wall and curved sidewalls. The front wall and the curved sidewalls may be formed from a glass layer or other transparent member. A touch sensor layer and display layer may extend under the glass layer with curved sidewalls. A touch sensor layer may also extend under the opposing rear wall. A foldable electronic device may have a flexible transparent wall portion that joins planar transparent walls. Components may be interposed between the transparent planar walls and opaque walls. Display and touch layers may be overlapped by the transparent walls and the transparent flexible wall portion. Touch sensor structures may also be overlapped by the opaque walls.

公开(公告)号：US10353516B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-16

申请号：US14871281

申请日：2015-09-30

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Isaac Chan ,  Prathit Bugnait ,  Albert Lin ,  Chun-Hao Tung ,  Sunggu Kang ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC分类号： G06F3/045 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/0354 ,  G09G3/36

摘要： Touch sensor panel configurations for reducing wobble error for a stylus translating on a surface over and between electrodes of the touch sensor panel are disclosed. In some examples, electrodes with more linear signal profiles are correlated with lower wobble error. In some examples, diffusing elements formed of floating segments of conductive materials can diffuse signal from a stylus to a plurality of electrodes, thus, making the signal profiles associated with the electrodes more linear. In addition, diffusing elements can be configured to improve the optical uniformity of the touch sensor panel. In some examples, the diffusing elements can be formed on the same layer as floating dummy pixels and resemble a plurality of merged floating dummy pixels.

公开(公告)号：US20180081085A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-22

申请号：US15484888

申请日：2017-04-11

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Zhenbin Ge ,  Xianwei Zhao ,  Wookyung Bae ,  Sunggu Kang ,  Ligang Wang ,  Avery P. Yuen ,  Stephen C. Cool ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC分类号： G02B1/115 ,  G02B1/18 ,  G02B1/14

摘要： An electronic device may have transparent members such as display cover layers and camera windows. A transparent member such as a sapphire member may be provided with an antireflection coating. The antireflection coating may have a stack of dielectric thin-film interference filter layers that form a thin-film interference filter that suppresses visible light reflections. The stack of dielectric thin-film interference filter layers may have thicknesses and materials that provide the thin-film interference filter and coating with low light reflection properties while enhancing scratch resistance. An adhesion layer may be used to help adhere the stack of thin-film interference filter layer to the transparent member. An antismudge coating such as a fluoropolymer coating may be used to reduce smudging. Graded layers and layers with elevated hardness values may be used in the coating.

公开(公告)号：US09843014B2

公开(公告)日：2017-12-12

申请号：US15042453

申请日：2016-02-12

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Tingjun Xu ,  Xianwei Zhao ,  Wookyung Bae ,  Sunggu Kang ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC分类号： B05D5/12 ,  H01L51/52 ,  C23C14/08 ,  C23C14/58 ,  G02F1/1333

CPC分类号： H01L51/524 ,  C23C14/081 ,  C23C14/5813 ,  G02F1/133308 ,  G02F2001/133331

摘要： An electronic device may have a display that is protected by a transparent cover layer. The transparent cover layer may include a laser-annealed sapphire coating on the outer surface of a glass substrate or other transparent substrate. The sapphire coating may provide the display with a hard, scratch-resistant outer surface. The sapphire coating may be formed by coating a glass substrate with a thin film of amorphous aluminum oxide. The aluminum oxide thin film may be locally heated to transform the amorphous aluminum oxide into alpha-phase aluminum oxide (sapphire). Local heating may be achieved by laser annealing the aluminum oxide coating with a carbon dioxide laser. The laser may produce laser light having a wavelength that is absorbed in the aluminum oxide coating without being absorbed by the glass substrate so that the glass substrate is not damaged during the laser annealing process.

公开(公告)号：US20170059746A1

公开(公告)日：2017-03-02

申请号：US14884677

申请日：2015-10-15

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Chun-Hao Tung ,  Qian Zhao ,  Sunggu Kang ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC分类号： G02B1/115 ,  G06F3/044

摘要： A display may have an active area in which pixels display images through a transparent display layer. An opaque masking material may be formed in an inactive border area adjacent to the active area. The opaque masking layer may include particles such as carbon black particles to provide the opaque masking layer with a dark appearance. The color of the opaque masking layer may be adjusted by incorporating additional particles such as titanium oxide particles. Particle size for the carbon black particles and the index of refraction of the opaque masking layer may be adjusted to reduce reflectance in the inactive border area. A transparent conductive layer may be supported by the transparent display layer. Index-of-refraction matching layers may be interposed between the transparent conductive layer and the transparent display layer. The opaque masking layer may be interposed between the matching layers in the inactive border area.

摘要翻译： 显示器可以具有其中像素通过透明显示层显示图像的有效区域。 不透明掩模材料可以形成在与有效区域相邻的无效边界区域中。 不透明掩模层可以包括诸如炭黑颗粒的颗粒，以提供具有黑色外观的不透明掩模层。 不透明掩模层的颜色可以通过引入另外的颗粒例如氧化钛颗粒来调节。 可以调整炭黑粒子的粒径和不透明掩模层的折射率，以降低非活性边界区域的反射率。 透明导电层可以由透明显示层支撑。 折射率匹配层可以插入在透明导电层和透明显示层之间。 不透明掩模层可以介于不活动边界区域中的匹配层之间。

公开(公告)号：US09236202B2

公开(公告)日：2016-01-12

申请号：US13710417

申请日：2012-12-10

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Siddharth Mohapatra ,  Sunggu Kang ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC分类号： H01H1/10 ,  H01H11/04 ,  H01H1/58 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/044

CPC分类号： G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F2203/04103 ,  G06F2203/04107 ,  H01H1/58 ,  H01H11/04 ,  Y10T29/49105

摘要： Processes for manufacturing touch sensors with one or more guard traces to reduce the effect of moisture damage are provided. One example process can include forming one or more guard traces between an edge of the touch sensor and the metal traces that route the drive and sense lines to bond pads. The one or more guard traces can be uncoupled from the drive lines and sense lines to protect the inner metal traces from moisture damage. In some examples, ends of the one or more guard traces can be coupled to ground by copper. In other examples, ends of the one or more guard traces can be coupled to ground by indium tin oxide or the one or more guard traces can be coupled to ground by a strip of indium tin oxide. In yet other examples, the guard trace can be floating (e.g., not coupled to ground).

摘要翻译： 提供了具有一个或多个保护迹线的触摸传感器的制造工艺，以减少水分损伤的影响。 一个示例性过程可以包括在触摸传感器的边缘和路由驱动器并将线感测到接合焊盘的金属迹线之间形成一个或多个保护迹线。 一个或多个保护迹线可以从驱动线和感测线分离，以保护内部金属痕迹免受水分损伤。 在一些示例中，一个或多个保护迹线的端部可以通过铜耦合到地面。 在其他示例中，一个或多个保护迹线的端部可以通过氧化铟锡耦合到地，或者一个或多个保护迹线可以通过氧化铟锡条被耦合到地面。 在其他示例中，保护迹线可以是浮置的（例如，不耦合到地）。