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公开(公告)号：US11573603B2
公开(公告)日：2023-02-07
申请号：US17397716
申请日：2021-08-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Christopher D. Prest , Tseng-Mau Yang , Dale N. Memering
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 upper structures formed from a sheet of glass and lower optical structures that lie beneath the sheet of glass may be configured to bend light from the display pixels along the periphery of the active display structure. The upper optical structures may have an area that is larger than the area of the active display structure, so that the presence of the optical structures may serve to enlarge the apparent size of the display. The lower and upper optical structures may have curved surfaces for bending the light.
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公开(公告)号：US11299421B2
公开(公告)日：2022-04-12
申请号：US16540024
申请日：2019-08-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Michael M. Li , Dale N. Memering , Matthew N. Van Dyke
Abstract: An electronic device may include a housing, a display positioned at least partially within the housing, a cover assembly coupled to the housing and comprising a chemically strengthened glass member, and an encoded marking formed within the chemically strengthened glass member between an upper surface and a lower surface of the chemically strengthened glass member. The encoded marking may include an array of marks, each mark of the array of marks having a dimension between about 3 microns and about 10 microns and set apart from an adjacent mark by an unmarked area of the chemically strengthened glass member. Each mark may represent a bit of information in a binary number system. The encoded marking may be readable, by an optical magnification apparatus, through the upper surface.
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公开(公告)号：US20220006060A1
公开(公告)日：2022-01-06
申请号：US17481751
申请日：2021-09-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Tseng-Mau Yang , Christopher D. Prest , Dale N. Memering
IPC: H01L51/52 , G02F1/1333 , G02F1/1335 , 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.
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公开(公告)号：US20210365071A1
公开(公告)日：2021-11-25
申请号：US17397716
申请日：2021-08-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Christopher D. Prest , Tseng-Mau Yang , Dale N. Memering
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 upper structures formed from a sheet of glass and lower optical structures that lie beneath the sheet of glass may be configured to bend light from the display pixels along the periphery of the active display structure. The upper optical structures may have an area that is larger than the area of the active display structure, so that the presence of the optical structures may serve to enlarge the apparent size of the display. The lower and upper optical structures may have curved surfaces for bending the light.
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公开(公告)号：US20210364693A1
公开(公告)日：2021-11-25
申请号：US17398291
申请日：2021-08-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Tseng-Mau Yang , Christopher D. Prest , Dale N. Memering
Abstract: A display may have an array of display pixels that generate an image. A coherent fiber bundle may be mounted on the display pixels. The coherent fiber bundle may have a first surface that is adjacent to the display pixels and a second surface that is visible to a viewer. The coherent fiber bundle may contain fibers that carry light from the first surface to the second surface. The second surface may be planar or may have a central planar region and curved edge regions that run along opposing sides of the central planar region. The fibers may have cross-sectional surface areas with a first aspect ratio on the first surface and a second aspect ratio that is greater than the first aspect ratio on the second surface.
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公开(公告)号：US11088718B2
公开(公告)日：2021-08-10
申请号：US15371121
申请日：2016-12-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Colin M. Ely , Dale N. Memering , Kazuya Takagi , Naoto Matsuyuki , Theodore A. Waniuk
IPC: C04B35/00 , H04B1/3888 , H05K5/00 , H05K5/02 , B28B11/00 , B28B11/24 , B28B11/04 , C04B41/81 , C04B41/00 , C04B41/45 , C04B35/48 , C04B35/626 , C04B35/63 , C04B35/64 , C04B111/82
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a housing of an electronic device includes applying a mask to a portion of a ceramic green body to define a masked portion and an unmasked portion, applying a pigment to the ceramic green body to color the unmasked portion, and sintering the ceramic green body to remove the mask and form a ceramic housing. The ceramic housing may comprise a first portion corresponding to the masked portion and having a first color, and a second portion corresponding to the unmasked portion and having a second color different from the first color.
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公开(公告)号：US20210016547A1
公开(公告)日：2021-01-21
申请号：US17033022
申请日：2020-09-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Christopher C. Bartlow , Dale N. Memering , Tyler A. Marshall , Victor Luzzato
Abstract: A component for an electronic device including an internal compressive stress region is disclosed herein. The internal compressive stress region may be created in a glass portion of the component or in a glass ceramic portion of the component. Electronic devices comprising the components and method for making the components are also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号：US20200305794A1
公开(公告)日：2020-10-01
申请号：US16900045
申请日：2020-06-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Adam T. Clavelle , Maegan K. Spencer , Jaden Alyssa Barney , Dale N. Memering , Ueyn L. Block , Paul D. Mannheimer
IPC: A61B5/00 , A61B5/1455 , A61B5/024
Abstract: An integrated window for a photosensor for use in an electronic device has first and second transparent regions separated by an opaque region. The first transparent region allows a transmitter to emit light out of the housing of the electronic device and the second transparent region allows a receiver to receive light through the housing. The opaque region is disposed between the first and second transparent regions to isolate them from one another such that the transmitted light is isolated from the received light.
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公开(公告)号：US10691169B2
公开(公告)日：2020-06-23
申请号：US15975522
申请日：2018-05-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jeffrey C. Mylvaganam , Erik G. de Jong , Dale N. Memering , Xiao Bing Cai , Palaniappan Chinnakaruppan , Jong Kong Lee , Srikanth Kamireddi , Sawako Kamei , Feng Min , Jing Zhang , Xiang Du , Sai Feng Liu
IPC: G06F1/16 , G04B37/00 , B24B7/22 , G04B39/00 , B23K26/402 , H01Q1/24 , B28D5/00 , B24B29/00 , B24B37/04 , B24C11/00 , B23K26/364 , B05D1/02 , B24C1/08 , B23K103/00
Abstract: A cover for an electronic device and methods of forming a cover is disclosed. The electronic device may include a housing, and a cover coupled to the housing. The cover may have an inner surface having at least one of an intermediate polish and a final polish, a groove formed on the inner surface, and an outer surface positioned opposite the inner surface. The outer surface may have at least one of the intermediate polish and the final polish. The cover may also have a rounded perimeter portion formed between the inner surface and the outer surface. The rounded perimeter portion may be positioned adjacent the groove. The method for forming the cover may include performing a first polishing process on the sapphire component using a polishing tool, and performing a second polishing process on the groove of the sapphire component forming the cover using blasting media.
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公开(公告)号：US10551874B2
公开(公告)日：2020-02-04
申请号：US16006714
申请日：2018-06-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Christopher D. Prest , Tseng-Mau Yang , Dale N. Memering
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 upper structures formed from a sheet of glass and lower optical structures that lie beneath the sheet of glass may be configured to bend light from the display pixels along the periphery of the active display structure. The upper optical structures may have an area that is larger than the area of the active display structure, so that the presence of the optical structures may serve to enlarge the apparent size of the display. The lower and upper optical structures may have curved surfaces for bending the light.
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