Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flexible electronic devices
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Application No.: US16986091Application Date: 2020-08-05
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Publication No.: US11675390B2Publication Date: 2023-06-13
- 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 P. Woodruff
- Main IPC: G06F1/16
- IPC: G06F1/16 ; H01M10/04 ; H04M1/02 ; G06F1/3234 ; G09G3/20 ; G06F3/041 ; G06F3/044 ; G09G3/00 ; H01M50/213 ; H01M50/293 ; H01M50/216 ; G09G3/3208 ; H10K59/40 ; H10K77/10 ; H01M50/409 ; H01M50/105 ; H01M50/469 ; H10K102/00

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.
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