公开(公告)号：US12150264B1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-19

申请号：US18651139

申请日：2024-04-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Abhijeet Misra ,  Hoishun Li ,  Todd S. Mintz ,  Isabel Yang ,  James A. Curran ,  Lei Gao ,  Chuan Liu ,  Yu Yan

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  H05K5/00 ,  H05K5/04

Abstract: A housing for an electronic device can include an exterior titanium portion, an interior metal joined to the exterior titanium portion, the interior metal being a different metal than the exterior titanium portion, and an intermetallic compound having a thickness of less than 1 μm disposed between the interior metal and the exterior titanium portion.

公开(公告)号：US20240373574A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-07

申请号：US18461458

申请日：2023-09-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Abhijeet Misra ,  Hoishun Li ,  Todd S. Mintz ,  Isabel Yang ,  James A. Curran ,  Lei Gao ,  Chuan Liu ,  Yu Yan

IPC: H05K5/04 ,  H05K5/00

Abstract: A housing for an electronic device can include an exterior titanium portion, an interior metal joined to the exterior titanium portion, the interior metal being a different metal than the exterior titanium portion, and an intermetallic compound having a thickness of less than 1 μm disposed between the interior metal and the exterior titanium portion.

公开(公告)号：US12085734B1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-10

申请号：US17207453

申请日：2021-03-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ivan S. Maric ,  Alan Kleiman-Shwarsctein ,  Cole Snider ,  James A. Curran ,  Jan K. Quijalvo ,  Leon J. Garcia, Jr. ,  Paisith P. Boonsom ,  Zechariah D. Feinberg

IPC: G02B5/00 ,  G02B1/11 ,  G02B7/02 ,  G02B25/00 ,  H04N23/55 ,  H04N23/56 ,  H04N23/57 ,  G06F1/16

CPC classification number: G02B5/003 ,  G02B1/11 ,  G02B7/02 ,  G02B25/001 ,  H04N23/55 ,  H04N23/56 ,  H04N23/57 ,  G06F1/163

Abstract: A head-mounted device may have optical modules that present images to a user's left and right eyes. Each optical module may have a lens barrel with a low-reflectance coating, a display coupled to the lens barrel that generates a visible-light image, a lens mounted to the lens barrel through which the image is viewable from an eye box, an infrared light-emitting diode that emits infrared light that illuminates an eye box at an infrared wavelength through the lens, and an infrared camera that captures an image from the eye box at the infrared wavelength. The low-reflectance coating may be a low-visible-reflectance-and-low-infrared-reflectance coating that exhibits low-reflectance for visible light from the display and for infrared light at the infrared wavelength that is generated by the light-emitting diode.

公开(公告)号：US11795564B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-24

申请号：US16104477

申请日：2018-08-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： James A. Curran ,  James A. Dean ,  Todd S. Mintz

IPC: C25D11/24 ,  H05K5/02 ,  H05K5/04 ,  B32B15/00

CPC classification number: C25D11/243 ,  H05K5/0243 ,  H05K5/04 ,  B32B15/00 ,  Y10T428/24917

Abstract: This application relates to an enclosure for a portable electronic device. The enclosure includes an aluminum alloy substrate and an anodized layer overlaying and formed from the aluminum alloy substrate. The anodized layer includes pores, where the pores include (i) dye particles that impart the anodized layer with a color, and (ii) divalent metal cations.

公开(公告)号：US11614778B2

公开(公告)日：2023-03-28

申请号：US16869120

申请日：2020-05-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： James A. Curran ,  Alan Kleiman-Shwarsctein ,  Leon J. Garcia, Jr.

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  G02B5/20 ,  C25D11/00

Abstract: This application relates to an enclosure for a portable electronic device. The enclosure includes a metal substrate, and an anodized layer overlaying the metal substrate and including pores having a near-infrared (NIR) light-absorbing material therein, where an average specular reflectance of NIR light that is incident upon an external surface of the anodized layer is less than 3%.

公开(公告)号：US20230092781A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-23

申请号：US17656395

申请日：2022-03-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： James A. Curran ,  James A. Yurko ,  Todd S. Mintz

IPC: B29C45/14 ,  C23C22/83 ,  C23C22/78 ,  C22C14/00 ,  B29C45/00

Abstract: A chemical treatment process has been identified as a simple and effective means of improving the bonding of injection-molded polymer to titanium surfaces. This process forms an oxide layer on a titanium surface that includes a layered double hydroxide. The layered double hydroxide both raises the bond strength and minimizes air or water leakage. The process enables the use of titanium alloys with injection molded polymer structural bonds in strong, lightweight, and water-resistant enclosures for consumer electronics.

公开(公告)号：US11493957B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-08

申请号：US17127948

申请日：2020-12-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： James A. Curran ,  Sonja R. Postak ,  Todd S. Mintz

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  C25D11/26 ,  H05K5/00 ,  H05K5/04 ,  C22C14/00 ,  C25D11/02

Abstract: An enclosure for a portable electronic device includes a titanium substrate having a textured surface that includes peaks separated by valleys, where the textured surface is characterized as having (i) an Sdq (root mean square gradient) that is greater than 0.2 micrometers, and (ii) a gloss value that is greater than 90 gloss units as measured at 60 degrees by a gloss meter.

公开(公告)号：US11371157B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-28

申请号：US16360871

申请日：2019-03-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： James A. Curran ,  Sonja R. Postak ,  Karin H. Rasmussen ,  James A. Dean

IPC: C25D11/34 ,  H05K5/04 ,  G06F1/16 ,  C25D11/24

Abstract: This application relates to a method for forming an enclosure for a portable electronic device, the enclosure including a metal substrate that is overlaid by an anodized layer. The method includes dyeing the anodized layer by exposing pores of the anodized layer to a dye. The method further includes sealing the dye within the pores by exposing the anodized layer to a zinc-based sealing solution, where an external surface of the anodized layer having the pores that are sealed includes an amount of zinc between about 3 wt % to about 6 wt %.

公开(公告)号：US11352708B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-07

申请号：US15233728

申请日：2016-08-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： James A. Curran ,  Karin H. Rasmussen ,  Zechariah D. Feinberg

IPC: C23C14/10 ,  C25D11/24 ,  H05K5/04 ,  C25D11/14 ,  C25D11/26 ,  C25D11/30 ,  C25D11/22 ,  B32B15/04 ,  C25D11/08 ,  C25D11/04

Abstract: Colored oxide coatings having multiple oxide layers are described. Processes for forming the multilayer oxide coating can include converting a portion of a metal substrate to a primary oxide layer, coloring the primary oxide layer, and depositing a secondary oxide layer on the primary oxide layer. The primary oxide layer and the secondary oxide layer can be at least partially transparent such that a texture of an underlying metal substrate surface is visible through the multilayer oxide coating. A top surface of the secondary oxide layer can be polished to a high gloss to give the multilayer oxide coating an appearance of depth.

公开(公告)号：US11340652B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-24

申请号：US16584741

申请日：2019-09-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： James A. Curran ,  Sonja R. Postak ,  Todd S. Mintz

IPC: H05K5/00 ,  G06F1/16 ,  C25D11/02 ,  C25D11/26 ,  H05K5/04 ,  C22C14/00

Abstract: This application relates to an enclosure for a portable electronic device. The enclosure includes a titanium substrate having a textured surface that includes randomly distributed peaks separated from each other by valleys, where tops of the peaks are separated from bottoms of the valleys by at least a minimum separation distance such that the textured surface is characterized as having an Sq (root mean square height) that is greater than 0.3 micrometers.