FLEXIBLE CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE WITH TEMPORARY SUPPORTS AND EQUALIZED LATERAL EXPANSION
    1.
    发明申请
    FLEXIBLE CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE WITH TEMPORARY SUPPORTS AND EQUALIZED LATERAL EXPANSION 审中-公开
    具有临时支撑和均匀横向扩展的柔性电路基板

    公开(公告)号:WO2018044574A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-08

    申请号:PCT/US2017/047198

    申请日:2017-08-16

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: An item may have a flexible support structure and may include a flexible component. The flexible component may have electrical components mounted on component mounting regions in a flexible circuit substrate. The component mounting regions may be interconnected by serpentine interconnect paths or other flexible interconnect paths. The flexible circuit substrate and component mounting regions may extend along a longitudinal axis of the flexible component or may form a two-dimensional array. Two-dimensional mesh-shaped flexible circuit substrates may be used in forming displays. The mesh-shaped flexible circuit substrates may be auxetic substrates that widen when stretched (e.g., structures with a negative Poisson's ratio that become thicker perpendicular to applied force when stretched) and that therefore reduce image distortion. Temporary tethers may help hold flexible circuit substrates together until intentionally broken following assembly of a flexible component into the flexible support structure.

    Abstract translation: 项目可能有一个灵活的支持结构,可能包括一个灵活的组件。 柔性部件可以具有安装在柔性电路基板中的部件安装区域上的电气部件。 部件安装区域可以通过蛇形互连路径或其他柔性互连路径互连。 柔性电路基板和部件安装区域可以沿着柔性部件的纵向轴线延伸,或者可以形成二维阵列。 二维网状柔性电路基板可用于形成显示器。 网状柔性电路基板可以是拉伸时拉宽的拉胀基板(例如,具有负泊松比的结构,当与拉伸时垂直于施加的力变得更厚时),并因此减少图像失真。 临时系绳可以帮助将柔性电路基板保持在一起,直到在将柔性部件组装到柔性支撑结构中之后有意破坏。

    ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH DEFORMABLE DISPLAYS
    3.
    发明申请
    ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH DEFORMABLE DISPLAYS 审中-公开
    具有可变显示的电子设备

    公开(公告)号:WO2017044200A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-16

    申请号:PCT/US2016/044509

    申请日:2016-07-28

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a housing in which display structures are mounted. Additional input-output devices such as a track pad may also be mounted in the housing. These input-output devices may include components such as touch sensors and force sensors for gathering input from a user. The display structures may include a display such as a flexible organic light-emitting diode display or a liquid crystal display that can present visual information to the user. To provide the user with tactile output, an output device such as a display or track pad may be provided with electroactive polymer structures, electromagnetic actuators, and other tactile output devices. The tactile output devices may provide protrusions, indentations, selectively stiffened and softened areas, and other tactile output for a user.

    Abstract translation: 电子设备可以设置有其中安装显示结构的壳体。 附加的输入输出设备,例如轨道板也可以安装在壳体中。 这些输入输出设备可以包括诸如触摸传感器和用于从用户收集输入的力传感器的组件。 显示结构可以包括可以向用户呈现视觉信息的显示器,例如柔性有机发光二极管显示器或液晶显示器。 为了向用户提供触觉输出,诸如显示器或轨迹板的输出装置可以设置有电活性聚合物结构,电磁致动器和其他触觉输出装置。 触觉输出装置可以为用户提供突起,凹痕,选择性加硬和软化区域以及其它触觉输出。

    TILING DISPLAY SYSTEM
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:WO2022164675A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-04

    申请号:PCT/US2022/012778

    申请日:2022-01-18

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: A tiling display system has multiple display panels. The display panels may be positioned by positioners that are coupled to the display panels. In an untiled operating mode, the display panels of the tiling display system are moved apart. In this mode, each display panel can display different content such as different static images of artwork. In a tiled operating mode, the display panels of the tiling system are moved together to form a single display that displays a single still or moving image. Components on the backs of the display panels and/or along the edges of the display panels may be used to facilitate panel-to- panel alignment, to help couple adjacent panels together, and to support the transfer of power and/or data signals among the panels. The components may include optical and/or electrical alignment sensors, magnets for alignment and coupling, and transmitters and receivers for transmitting and receiving signals.

    FABRIC-COVERED ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    7.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:WO2019194861A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-10

    申请号:PCT/US2018/052587

    申请日:2018-09-25

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: An electronic device such as a voice-controlled speaker device may have a housing characterized by a vertical longitudinal axis. A flexible substrate such as a flexible mesh substrate with component support regions coupled by flexible segments may be wrapped around the housing and the vertical axis. The housing may have surface regions with compound curvature. The flexible substrate may conform to the regions with compound curvature. A fabric spacer layer may be interposed between the flexible substrate and the housing. Electrical components such as input-output devices may be mounted to the component support regions. A display may be formed from an array of light-emitting devices that are mounted on respective component support regions. Light from the light-emitting devices may pass through the fabric spacer layer toward the housing and back out away from the housing. An outer fabric layer may cover the mesh.

    ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH SOFT INPUT-OUTPUT COMPONENTS
    10.
    发明申请
    ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH SOFT INPUT-OUTPUT COMPONENTS 审中-公开
    具有软输入输出组件的电子设备

    公开(公告)号:WO2017003531A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-01-05

    申请号:PCT/US2016/024733

    申请日:2016-03-29

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: An electronic device may have control circuitry coupled to input-output devices such as a display. A flexible input-output device (20) may be formed from an elastomeric substrate layer (44). The substrate layer may have signal paths (42) to which components (24) are mounted. Openings may be formed in the elastomeric substrate layer between the signal paths to create a stretchable mesh-shaped substrate. The electrical components may each include an interposer having solder pads soldered to the elastomeric substrate. Electrical devices such as micro-light-emitting diodes may be soldered to the interposers. The electrical components may also include electrical devices such as sensors and actuators. A stretchable lighting unit may have a stretchable light guide illuminated by a stretchable light source.

    Abstract translation: 电子设备可以具有耦合到诸如显示器的输入输出设备的控制电路。 柔性输入 - 输出装置(20)可以由弹性体基底层(44)形成。 衬底层可以具有安装组件(24)的信号路径(42)。 可以在信号路径之间的弹性体基底层中形成开口,以产生可拉伸的网状基底。 电气部件可以各自包括具有焊接到弹性体基板的焊盘的插入器。 诸如微型发光二极管的电气装置可以焊接到插入件。 电气部件还可以包括诸如传感器和致动器的电气装置。 可拉伸照明单元可以具有由可拉伸光源照亮的可拉伸光导。

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