公开(公告)号：US11360258B1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-14

申请号：US15170748

申请日：2016-06-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ethan L. Huwe ,  Glenn K. Trainer ,  Jun Qi ,  Rong Liu ,  Victor H. Yin

IPC: F21V8/00 ,  G02B27/30 ,  F21V23/04 ,  F21V17/10 ,  F21Y101/02

Abstract: An electronic device may have input-output devices such as buttons formed from capacitive touch sensor electrodes. A transparent layer may be provided with opaque masking structures having a symbol-shaped opening aligned with a capacitive touch sensor electrode for a button or other input device. The symbol-shaped opening may be adjacent to the electrode and may be illuminated with light from a lighting system. The lighting system may include a light guide plate. The light guide plate may have edges that are oriented at non-zero angle with respect to each other. Light-emitting diodes of different colors may emit light into the edges. The light may be extracted from the light guide plate using bumps in a light extraction region. Light may be collimated using ribs formed on an opposing side of the light guide plate.

公开(公告)号：US11346542B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-31

申请号：US16882307

申请日：2020-05-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Janos C. Keresztes ,  Yu P. Sun ,  Rong Liu ,  Chungjae Lee ,  Ka Ho P. Poon ,  Brian P. Graves ,  Jun Qi ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Joel C. Yamasaki ,  Pedro Mari

IPC: F21V33/00 ,  F21V5/00 ,  F21V23/04 ,  F21V19/00 ,  F21V3/04 ,  F21V8/00 ,  F21Y115/00

Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a speaker, control circuitry, a plurality of light-emitting components configured to emit light through an upper housing wall or other housing structure. A lens diffuser layer having lenses overlapping respective light-emitting components, a textured diffuser layer formed from textured coatings on a substrate, and a volume diffuser layer having light-scattering structures in a polymer layer might be included to project light from the light-emitting components. A light-guiding portion of the lens diffuser layer may guide light to a circular peripheral edge to form an illuminated ring visible through the upper housing wall.

公开(公告)号：US11129284B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-21

申请号：US16912522

申请日：2020-06-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Adam Adjiwibawa ,  Shaowei Qin ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Wenyong Zhu ,  Steven M. Scardato

IPC: H05K1/00 ,  H05K3/46

Abstract: A rigid flex printed circuit board (PCB), method of manufacture, and display system incorporating the same are described. In an embodiment, a rigid flex PCB includes a flexible area extending from an adjacent routing area that is thicker than the flexible area. A flexible inner core spans the flexible area and the adjacent routing area. Outer stack-up layers are on the flexible inner core in the adjacent routing area. A cavity is formed in the outer stack-up layers in the routing area and exposes the flexible inner core. In an embodiment, a display system including such a circuit board may include an electronic component mounted on the flexible inner core within the cavity, and a distal end of the flexible area is bonded to a display panel.

公开(公告)号：US20210223822A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-22

申请号：US17221533

申请日：2021-04-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Thomas W. Wilson, JR. ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Bryan W. Posner ,  Chris Ligtenberg ,  Brett W. Degner ,  Peteris K. Augenbergs

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  H05K5/00

Abstract: An electronic device housing may have upper and lower portions that are attached with a hinge. At least one portion of the housing may have a rear planar surface and peripheral sidewalls having edges. A display module may be mounted in the housing. The display module may have glass layers such as a color filter glass layer and a thin-film transistor substrate. The color filter glass layer may serve as the outermost glass layer in the display module. The edges of the display module may be aligned with the edges of the peripheral housing sidewalls to create the appearance of a borderless display for the electronic device. The display module may be provided with an opening that allows a camera or other electronic components to receive light. Traces may be provided on the underside of the thin-film transistor substrate to serve as signal paths for the electrical components.

公开(公告)号：US11036082B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-15

申请号：US16422730

申请日：2019-05-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Rong Liu ,  Yu P. Sun ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Jun Qi ,  Ziruo Hong

IPC: G02F1/13357 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  F21V8/00

Abstract: A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a backlight unit. The backlight unit may include an array of light-emitting diodes and a light reflector that helps reflect light from the light-emitting diodes through the pixel array. A color conversion layer may be used to convert light from the light-emitting diodes from blue light to white light. A microlens array layer formed over the color conversion layer may spread the light from the color conversion layer to homogenize the light. To ensure light is emitted from the backlight with a uniform color, the microlens array layer may have different transmittance portions. A central portion of the microlens array layer may transmit more light and reflect less light than an edge portion of the microlens array layer.

公开(公告)号：US11009745B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-18

申请号：US16294723

申请日：2019-03-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Rong Liu ,  Daming Xu ,  Joshua A. Spechler ,  Jun Qi ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Ling Han ,  Juan He ,  Ziruo Hong ,  Mookyung Son ,  Heesang Suh ,  Xinyu Zhu

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/13357 ,  H05K1/02 ,  H05K1/18 ,  H05K3/22 ,  H05K3/34 ,  F21K9/64 ,  H01L25/075 ,  H01L33/54 ,  H01L33/62 ,  H01L33/64 ,  F21Y115/10

Abstract: A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a backlight unit. The backlight unit may include a printed circuit board, a plurality of light-emitting diodes mounted on the printed circuit board, at least one light spreading layer formed over the printed circuit board that spreads light received from the plurality of light-emitting diodes, a partially reflective layer formed over the at least one light spreading layer, a color conversion layer formed over the partially reflective layer, a collimating layer formed over the color conversion layer, a brightness enhancement film formed over the collimating layer, and a diffuser formed over the brightness enhancement film. The at least one light spreading layer may include two light spreading layers with elongated protrusions that are rotated relative to each other.

公开(公告)号：US10983390B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-20

申请号：US16279350

申请日：2019-02-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Thomas W. Wilson, Jr. ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Bryan W. Posner ,  Chris Ligtenberg ,  Brett W. Degner ,  Peteris K. Augenbergs ,  John Z. Zhong ,  Steve Hotelling ,  Lynn Youngs ,  Kuo-Hua Sung

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1345 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/1362

Abstract: An electronic device display may have a color filter layer and a thin film transistor layer. A layer of liquid crystal material may be interposed between the color filter layer and the thin film transistor layer. A layer of polarizer may be laminated onto the surface of the color filter layer. Laser trimming may ensure that the edges of the polarizer are even with the edges of the color filter layer. The thin film transistor layer may have an array of thin film transistors that control pixels of the liquid crystal material in the display. Driver circuitry may be used to control the array. The driver circuitry may be encapsulated in a planarized encapsulant on the thin film transistor layer or may be mounted to the underside of the color filter layer. Conductive structures may connect driver circuitry on the color filter layer to the thin film transistor layer.

公开(公告)号：US20210089168A1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-25

申请号：US17116907

申请日：2020-12-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dhaval C. Patel ,  Eugene C. Cheung ,  Pey-Jiun Ko ,  Po-Jui Chen ,  Robert W. Rumford ,  Steve L. Terry ,  Wei Lin ,  Xiaofan Niu ,  Xiaoqi Zhou ,  Yi Gu ,  Yindar Chuo ,  Rasmi R. Das ,  Steven M. Scardato ,  Se Hyun Ahn ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Wookyung Bae ,  Christopher L. Boitnott ,  Chun-Hao Tung ,  Mookyung Son ,  Sunggu Kang ,  Nathan K. Gupta ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC: G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/041

Abstract: An electronic device with a force sensing device is disclosed. The electronic device comprises a user input surface defining an exterior surface of the electronic device, a first capacitive sensing element, and a second capacitive sensing element capacitively coupled to the first capacitive sensing element. The electronic device also comprises a first spacing layer between the first and second capacitive sensing elements, and a second spacing layer between the first and second capacitive sensing elements. The first and second spacing layers have different compositions. The electronic device also comprises sensing circuitry coupled to the first and second capacitive sensing elements configured to determine an amount of applied force on the user input surface. The first spacing layer is configured to collapse if the applied force is below a force threshold, and the second spacing layer is configured to collapse if the applied force is above the force threshold.

公开(公告)号：US10571743B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-25

申请号：US15688736

申请日：2017-08-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Byungsoo Ko ,  Daming Xu ,  Heesang Suh ,  Michael Tom ,  Shin-Ying Lu ,  Thomas Mueller ,  Wenyong Zhu ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Mookyung Son

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  F21V8/00

Abstract: A display may have a backlight unit that provides backlight illumination. The backlight unit may include a light guide that distributes light through the display. Light-emitting diodes may emit light into the light guide. A reflector that is overlapped by the light guide may help reflect light upwards through an array of pixels. The backlight unit may have a chassis that receives the reflector, light guide, light-emitting diodes, and optical films such as diffusers and prism films. Optical and mechanical features in the backlight unit may enhance color and intensity uniformity for the backlight illumination and may help enhance durability.

公开(公告)号：US10571618B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-25

申请号：US14943202

申请日：2015-11-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Rong Liu ,  Yu P. Sun ,  Jun Qi ,  Victor H. Yin

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  F21V8/00

Abstract: A backlight unit may include a turning film that receives light from a light guide layer. The turning film may have a plurality of elongated protrusions that extend across the turning film. Each protrusion may have a concave surface. The concave surface may be a curved surface that curves inward towards the interior of the turning film. Light from the light guide layer may pass through the turning film and be reflected towards a viewer by the concave surfaces of the protrusions. In a liquid crystal display, the turning film may be interposed between the light guide layer and a lower polarizer. In certain embodiments, the turning film may be the only optical layer interposed between the light guide layer and the lower polarizer. In other embodiments, the turning layer and a diffuser layer may be the only optical layers interposed between the light guide layer and the lower polarizer.