公开(公告)号：US10108222B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-23

申请号：US15177252

申请日：2016-06-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Nathan K. Gupta ,  Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera ,  Myunghun Lee

IPC: G02F1/1339 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H04N5/225 ,  H01L27/12 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1333

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. The display may be mounted in a housing and may have a window to accommodate a camera or other electrical component. The display may have multiple substrate layers. A hole may be formed in one of the substrate layers to form additional space within the housing to accommodate the electrical component. The hole may be drilled partway through a substrate layer to form an annular thinned region. The annular thinned region may be cracked to release a disk-shaped portion of the substrate layer and form the hole. A ring of sealant may surround the hole to help cushion the display substrate layers during drilling operations. Column spacer structures may be formed on a portion of a display substrate that is overlapped by the hole.

公开(公告)号：US20170160766A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-08

申请号：US15177252

申请日：2016-06-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Nathan K. Gupta ,  Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera ,  Myunghun Lee

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  H01L27/12 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  H04N5/225 ,  G02F1/1339

CPC classification number: G06F1/1605 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/133308 ,  G02F1/133514 ,  G02F1/1339 ,  G02F1/13394 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F2001/133302 ,  G02F2001/13396 ,  G02F2201/56 ,  G06F1/1637 ,  G06F1/1686 ,  H01L27/1214 ,  H04N5/2257

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. The display may be mounted in a housing and may have a window to accommodate a camera or other electrical component. The display may have multiple substrate layers. A hole may be formed in one of the substrate layers to form additional space within the housing to accommodate the electrical component. The hole may be drilled partway through a substrate layer to form an annular thinned region. The annular thinned region may be cracked to release a disk-shaped portion of the substrate layer and form the hole. A ring of sealant may surround the hole to help cushion the display substrate layers during drilling operations. Column spacer structures may be formed on a portion of a display substrate that is overlapped by the hole.

公开(公告)号：US20160170247A1

公开(公告)日：2016-06-16

申请号：US14862004

申请日：2015-09-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mohd Fadzli A. Hassan ,  Jin Yan ,  Myunghun Lee ,  Nathan K. Gupta ,  Xinyu Zhu ,  Young Cheol Yang ,  Yu-Cheng Chen

IPC: G02F1/1339 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  H01L27/12

CPC classification number: G02F1/1339 ,  G02F1/133512 ,  G02F1/133514 ,  G02F1/13394 ,  G02F2001/133334 ,  H01L27/1259

Abstract: A display may have a layer of liquid crystal material interposed between a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. A ring of adhesive sealant may surround the liquid crystal layer. Columns spacers may extend between the color filter and thin-film transistor layers through the liquid crystal layer to help ensure that the color filter and thin-film transistor layers are appropriately spaced apart from each other. A ring-shaped polymer spacer may surround the ring of adhesive sealant and may help protect display structures form exposure to etchant that is used to treat the edges of glass layers in the display. The spacer may be formed from the same layer of material that forms the column spacers. A black masking layer may be formed on the underside of the color filter layer using techniques that prevent the formation of protruding edge portions.

Abstract translation: 显示器可以具有介于滤色器层和薄膜晶体管层之间的液晶材料层。 粘合密封剂环可以围绕液晶层。 色谱柱间隔物可以通过液晶层在滤色器和薄膜晶体管层之间延伸，以帮助确保滤色器和薄膜晶体管层彼此适当间隔开。 环形聚合物间隔物可以围绕粘合剂密封剂的环，并且可以帮助保护显示结构，从而暴露于用于处理显示器中的玻璃层的边缘的蚀刻剂。 间隔物可以由形成柱间隔物的相同的材料层形成。 可以使用防止形成突出边缘部分的技术在滤色器层的下侧上形成黑色掩蔽层。