Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flexible electronic devices
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Application No.: US15419730Application Date: 2017-01-30
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Publication No.: US09971448B2Publication Date: 2018-05-15
- Inventor: Jeremy C. Franklin , Scott A. Myers , Benjamin M. Rappoport , Stephen Brian Lynch , John P. Ternus , Justin R. Wodrich
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent Kendall W. Abbasi
- Main IPC: G06F3/044
- IPC: G06F3/044 ; G06F3/041 ; G06F1/16 ; H01M2/10 ; G09G3/20 ; H01M2/16 ; H01M2/18 ; H01M10/04 ; G09G3/3208 ; H01L27/32 ; H01L51/00 ; G06F1/32 ; H04M1/02 ; H01M2/02

Abstract:
Flexible electronic devices may be provided. A flexible electronic device may include a flexible display, a flexible housing and one or more flexible internal components configured to allow the flexible electronic device to be deformed. Flexible displays may include flexible display layers, flexible touch-sensitive layers, and flexible display cover layers. The flexible housing may be a multi-stable flexible housing having one or more stable positions. The flexible housing may include a configurable support structure that, when engaged, provides a rigid support structure for the flexible housing. The flexible internal components may include flexible batteries, flexible printed circuits or other flexible components. A flexible battery may include flexible and rigid portions or may include a lubricious separator layer that provides flexibility for the flexible battery. A flexible printed circuit may include flexible and rigid portions or openings that allow some rigid portions to flex with respect to other rigid portions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170139532A1 Flexible Electronic Devices Public/Granted day:2017-05-18
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