公开(公告)号：US11565506B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-31

申请号：US16143309

申请日：2018-09-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Victor Luzzato ,  Christopher D. Prest ,  Matthew S. Rogers ,  Dale N. Memering ,  Christopher C. Bartlow

IPC: B32B15/04 ,  B32B17/06 ,  B32B7/12 ,  C03B23/03 ,  C03C17/23 ,  C03C21/00 ,  C03C17/22 ,  C03B23/203 ,  C03C27/10 ,  C03C19/00

Abstract: Glass articles and methods for producing glass articles for a portable electronic device are disclosed. Properties of the glass articles, such as cover members, are improved through chemical strengthening, thermoforming, or a combination thereof. The glass articles may include barrier layers to prevent diffusion of ions between glass layers of the glass article, internal compressive stress regions, or a combination thereof.

公开(公告)号：US20210356991A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-18

申请号：US16874568

申请日：2020-05-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Joseph C. Poole ,  Christopher D. Jones ,  Christopher D. Prest ,  James R. Wilson ,  Marta M. Giachino ,  Matthew S. Rogers

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  H05K5/00 ,  H04M1/02

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display for displaying images. The display may be coupled to a housing on a front face of the device. The housing may have a transparent portion on an opposing rear face of the device. The electronic device may have structures with an adjustable appearance. The adjustable-appearance structures may include a mask with openings or other mask elements and a corresponding overlapped patterned layer containing an array of visual elements. The visual elements may have different appearances, so that movement of the mask relative to the patterned layer changes the appearance of the adjustable-appearance structures. The state of the adjustable-appearance structure may be changed during use of the device by a user or may be adjusted then fixed during manufacturing.

公开(公告)号：US11165046B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-02

申请号：US16806224

申请日：2020-03-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tseng-Mau Yang ,  Christopher D. Prest ,  Dale N. Memering

IPC: G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  H01L51/52 ,  H01L27/32

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may have an array of display pixels that provide image light to a user. The array of display pixels may form an active display structure with a rectangular shape. The rectangular active display structure may be surrounded by an inactive border region. Optical structures such as a sheet of glass or another optical member may have portions that are configured to bend light from the display pixels along the periphery of the active display structure. The optical member may have an area that is larger than the area of the active display structure, so that the presence of the optical member may serve to enlarge the apparent size of the display. Solidified liquid polymer may be used to support the optical structures and may be interposed between the optical structures and the active display structures.

公开(公告)号：US20210181395A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-17

申请号：US17177994

申请日：2021-02-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Que Anh S. Nguyen ,  Christopher D. Prest ,  Jody R. Akana ,  Marta M. Giachino ,  Matthew S. Rogers ,  Ove Lyngnes

IPC: G02B5/28 ,  C03C17/42 ,  G02B1/11 ,  G02B1/10

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing surrounding an interior in which electrical components are mounted. A display may be mounted to housing structures in the device. The housing may have a rear wall. The display cover layer and rear wall of the housing may be formed from transparent glass layers. Coatings may be formed on inwardly facing surfaces of the transparent glass layers. A coating on a transparent glass layer may be formed from a thin-film interference filter having a stack of dielectric layers. The coating may include an ink layer on the thin-film interference filter.

公开(公告)号：US10979796B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-13

申请号：US16915431

申请日：2020-06-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： M. Evans Hankey ,  Emery A. Sanford ,  Christopher D. Prest ,  Way Chet Lim

IPC: H04R1/10 ,  H01R13/62 ,  H04R25/00 ,  H04M1/05 ,  H04M1/60 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H02J7/00 ,  H04M1/02 ,  H05K1/14 ,  H05K1/18

Abstract: An apparatus for charging a portable wireless listening device including a housing having a socket to receive the portable wireless listening device; a battery; wireless circuitry that enables the apparatus to communicate wirelessly with a host device; power transmitting circuitry configured to provide power to the portable wireless listening device when the device is received in the socket to charge a battery within the portable wireless listening device; and a processor configured to configured to establish a wireless communication protocol between the portable wireless listening device and the host device.

公开(公告)号：US10959006B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-23

申请号：US16915759

申请日：2020-06-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： M. Evans Hankey ,  Emery A. Sanford ,  Christopher D. Prest ,  Way Chet Lim

IPC: H04R1/10 ,  H04M1/05 ,  H04M1/60 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04R25/00 ,  H02J7/00 ,  H01R13/62 ,  H04M1/02 ,  H05K1/14 ,  H05K1/18

Abstract: An apparatus for charging a portable wireless listening device including a housing having a socket to receive the portable wireless listening device; a battery; wireless circuitry that enables the apparatus to communicate wirelessly with a host device; power transmitting circuitry configured to provide power to the portable wireless listening device when the device is received in the socket to charge a battery within the portable wireless listening device; and a processor configured to establish a wireless communication protocol between the portable wireless listening device and the host device.

公开(公告)号：US10941503B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-09

申请号：US16215417

申请日：2018-12-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Lucy E. Browning ,  Stephen B. Lynch ,  Christopher D. Prest ,  Peter N. Russell-Clarke ,  Masashige Tatebe ,  Michael S. Nashner ,  Daniel T. McDonald ,  Brian S. Tryon ,  Jody R. Akana

IPC: C25D11/18 ,  B23K26/352 ,  B23K26/354 ,  C25D11/04 ,  C25D11/02 ,  C25D11/12

Abstract: The embodiments described herein relate to forming anodized films that have a white appearance. In some embodiments, an anodized film having pores with light diffusing pore walls created by varying the current density during an anodizing process is described. In some embodiments, an anodized film having light diffusing micro-cracks created by a laser cracking procedure is described. In some embodiments, a sputtered layer of light diffusing aluminum is provided below an anodized film. In some embodiments, light diffusing particles are infused within openings of an anodized layer.

公开(公告)号：US10927473B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-23

申请号：US15487300

申请日：2017-04-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： James A. Curran ,  Zechariah D. Feinberg ,  Christopher D. Prest ,  Joseph C. Poole

IPC: H05K5/02 ,  H05K5/04 ,  C25D11/26 ,  C25D11/18 ,  C23C14/08 ,  C25D11/16 ,  C23C14/58 ,  C23C16/40 ,  C23C16/56 ,  C25D11/08 ,  C25D11/24

Abstract: Oxide coatings that reduce or eliminate the appearance of thin film interference coloring are described. In some embodiments, the oxide coatings are configured to reduce the appearance of fingerprints. In some cases, the oxide coatings are sufficiently thick to increase the optical path difference of incident light, thereby reducing any inference coloring by the fingerprint to a non-visible level. In some embodiments, the oxide coatings have a non-uniform thickness that changes the way light reflects off of interfaces of the oxide coating, thereby reducing or eliminating any thin film interference coloring caused by the oxide coatings themselves or by a fingerprint.

公开(公告)号：US20200336816A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-22

申请号：US16915431

申请日：2020-06-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： M. Evans Hankey ,  Emery A. Sanford ,  Christopher D. Prest ,  Way Chet Lim

IPC: H04R1/10 ,  H04M1/05 ,  H04M1/60 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H02J7/00 ,  H01R13/62

Abstract: An apparatus for charging a portable wireless listening device including a housing having a socket to receive the portable wireless listening device; a battery; wireless circuitry that enables the apparatus to communicate wirelessly with a host device; power transmitting circuitry configured to provide power to the portable wireless listening device when the device is received in the socket to charge a battery within the portable wireless listening device; and a processor configured to configured to establish a wireless communication protocol between the portable wireless listening device and the host device.

公开(公告)号：US20200153092A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-14

申请号：US16744710

申请日：2020-01-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Colin M. Ely ,  Christopher D. Prest ,  Lucy E. Browning ,  Stephen B. Lynch ,  Eric S. Laakmann ,  Paul L. Nangeroni

IPC: H01Q1/42 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  C23C28/00 ,  C23C16/06 ,  C23C14/58 ,  C23C14/16

Abstract: A housing for an electronic device, including an aluminum layer enclosing a volume that includes a radio-frequency (RF) antenna is provided. The housing includes a window aligned with the RF antenna; the window including a non-conductive material filling a cavity in the aluminum layer; and a thin aluminum oxide layer adjacent to the aluminum layer and to the non-conductive material; wherein the non-conductive material and the thin aluminum oxide layer form an RF-transparent path through the window. A housing for an electronic device including an integrated RF-antenna is also provided. A method of manufacturing a housing for an electronic device as described above is provided.