公开(公告)号：US12193159B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-07

申请号：US18461334

申请日：2023-09-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sameer Pandya ,  Kiran S. Pillai ,  Kyle M. Zampaglione

IPC: H05K1/14 ,  H01R12/52 ,  H05K1/18

Abstract: A display assembly for an electronic device can include a printed circuit board, a display panel, and a support structure affixed to the display panel and disposed between the display panel and the printed circuit board.

公开(公告)号：US12079036B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-03

申请号：US17340893

申请日：2021-06-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Daniel J. Barrett ,  Dakota A. Bass ,  Sameer Pandya ,  Shang L Tsuei ,  Elizabeth C. Porter ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  Jingjing Xu ,  Jacquelynn M. Pok ,  Kiran S. Pillai ,  Xuan Liu ,  Adam J. Brinkman ,  Paul Choiniere ,  Daniel W. Jarvis ,  Jia Liu

IPC: G06F1/16

CPC classification number: G06F1/1652 ,  G06F1/163

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have a display panel with an array of pixels on a flexible substrate. A display cover layer may overlap the display panel. The flexible substrate may have a protruding portion that forms a tail. The tail may be coupled to a printed circuit on which a display driver integrated circuit and/or other circuitry is mounted. When the display is mounted in the housing, the tail may be bent back on itself to create a bend. The bend may be embedded in a molded polymer member. The molded polymer member may be attached to the housing with adhesive and may directly contact an inner surface of the display cover layer.

公开(公告)号：US20240241548A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-18

申请号：US18618749

申请日：2024-03-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Daniel J. Barrett ,  Dakota A. Bass ,  Sameer Pandya ,  Shang L. Tsuei ,  Elizabeth C. Porter ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  Jingjing Xu ,  Jacquelynn M. Pok ,  Kiran S. Pillai ,  Xuan Liu ,  Adam J. Brinkman ,  Paul Choiniere ,  Daniel W. Jarvis ,  Jia Liu

IPC: G06F1/16

CPC classification number: G06F1/1652 ,  G06F1/163

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have a display panel with an array of pixels on a flexible substrate. A display cover layer may overlap the display panel. The flexible substrate may have a protruding portion that forms a tail. The tail may be coupled to a printed circuit on which a display driver integrated circuit and/or other circuitry is mounted. When the display is mounted in the housing, the tail may be bent back on itself to create a bend. The bend may be embedded in a molded polymer member. The molded polymer member may be attached to the housing with adhesive and may directly contact an inner surface of the display cover layer.

公开(公告)号：US11862083B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-02

申请号：US17374879

申请日：2021-07-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sameer Pandya ,  Daniel J. Barrett ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  James P. Landry ,  David A. Doyle ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou ,  Jung Yun Seuh ,  Yi Qiao

IPC: G02F1/137 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  F21V8/00 ,  G04G17/04 ,  G02F1/1335

CPC classification number: G09G3/3233 ,  G02B6/004 ,  G02B6/0051 ,  G02F1/13737 ,  G02F1/133331 ,  G04G17/045 ,  G02F1/133541

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have a pixel array that produces images. A display cover layer may overlap the pixel array. The display cover layer may have a planar central area surrounded by a peripheral edge area with a curved cross-sectional profile. From an on-axis viewing angle, an image on the pixel array is fully viewable through the planar central area and the peripheral edge area. From an off-axis viewing angle, the image is partly viewable through the peripheral edge area and not through the central area. To avoid an undesired color cast in the partly viewable image seen through the peripheral edge area of the display cover layer, the display may be provided with color cast compensation structures such as a guest-host liquid crystal layer that exhibits an anisotropic colored light absorption characteristic, a diffuser layer, and/or other optical structures.

公开(公告)号：US11796968B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-24

申请号：US17507589

申请日：2021-10-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Steven C. Roach ,  Sameer Pandya ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  Erik L. Wang ,  Peter J. Kardassakis ,  Steven P. Cardinali

IPC: G04G21/08 ,  G01D5/30 ,  G04G9/00 ,  G04G17/08 ,  G04G21/02 ,  G04B37/10

CPC classification number: G04G21/08 ,  G01D5/30 ,  G04G9/007 ,  G04G17/08 ,  G04G21/025 ,  G04B37/10

Abstract: An electronic watch may include a housing defining a side wall having a through-hole and a crown assembly including an actuation member. The actuation member may include a crown shaft extending through the through-hole and having an exterior portion defining an input surface and a crown ring coupled to the exterior portion of the crown shaft and electrically isolated from the crown shaft. The crown assembly may further include an optical encoder component attached to the actuation member and defining a group of optical features. The electronic watch may further include an optical detector configured to detect rotation of the crown assembly by detecting motion of the group of optical features and an electrocardiograph sensor comprising a sensing component. The sensing component may be conductively coupled to the actuation member via a conductive path at least partially defined by the crown shaft.

公开(公告)号：US20230132590A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-04

申请号：US17453426

申请日：2021-11-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sameer Pandya ,  Kiran S. Pillai ,  Kyle M. Zampaglione

IPC: H05K1/14 ,  H01R12/52 ,  H05K1/18

Abstract: A display assembly for an electronic device can include a printed circuit board, a display panel, and a support structure affixed to the display panel and disposed between the display panel and the printed circuit board.

公开(公告)号：US20230098960A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-30

申请号：US18075212

申请日：2022-12-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sameer Pandya ,  Adam T. Clavelle ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  Michael B. Wittenberg ,  Tobias J. Harrison-Noonan ,  Martin Melcher ,  Zhipeng Zhang ,  Steven C. Roach ,  Steven P. Cardinali

IPC: A61B5/00 ,  G06F1/16 ,  A61B5/282 ,  A61B5/332 ,  A61B5/339 ,  A61B5/024 ,  G04G9/00 ,  G04G21/02 ,  G04G21/08

Abstract: An electronic device, such as a watch, has a housing to which a carrier is attached. The carrier has a first surface interior to the electronic device, and a second surface exterior to the electronic device. A set of electrodes is deposited on the exterior surface of the carrier. An additional electrode is operable to be contacted by a finger of a user of the electronic device while the first electrode is positioned against skin of the user. The additional electrode may be positioned on a user-rotatable crown of the electronic device, on a button of the electronic device, or on another surface of the housing of the electronic device. A processor of the electronic device is operable to determine a biological parameter of the user based on voltages at the electrodes. The biological parameter may be an electrocardiogram.

公开(公告)号：US11561342B1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-24

申请号：US16985125

申请日：2020-08-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Erik G. de Jong ,  Michael B. Wittenberg ,  Sameer Pandya

IPC: G02B6/06 ,  G02B23/26 ,  G06F21/32 ,  G02B23/24 ,  G06V40/12 ,  G02B6/12

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display overlapped by an image transport layer such as a coherent fiber bundle or layer of Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may have an input surface that receives an image from the display and a corresponding output surface to which the image is transported. The input surface and output surface may have different shapes. During fabrication of the image transport layer, a peripheral portion of the image transport layer may be laterally indented to form a peripheral recess. Electrical components such as optical and radio-frequency components may be mounted in the recess and may be overlapped by peripheral portions of the image transport layer and/or may be mounted under the display.

公开(公告)号：US11269376B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-08

申请号：US17019185

申请日：2020-09-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Daniela M. Deschamps ,  Sameer Pandya ,  Tyler S. Atura Bushnell ,  Christopher M. Werner ,  Steven C. Roach ,  Colin M. Ely

IPC: G06F1/16

Abstract: An input component for an electronic device can include a dial that defines an exterior surface and a shaft affixed to the dial. The dial and the shaft can be rotatable about a central axis of the shaft and the shaft can include a protruding portion that defines a channel. A collar can surround a portion of the shaft and can be at least partially disposed in the channel. A bushing can be positioned between the collar and the protruding portion of the shaft, with the bushing defining a groove.

公开(公告)号：USD899426S1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-20

申请号：US29661789

申请日：2018-08-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Designer： Jody Akana ,  Molly Anderson ,  Bartley K. Andre ,  Shota Aoyagi ,  Anthony Michael Ashcroft ,  Marine C. Bataille ,  Jeremy Bataillou ,  Erik Geddes Pieter De Jong ,  Markus Diebel ,  M. Evans Hankey ,  Julian Hoenig ,  Richard P. Howarth ,  Jonathan P. Ive ,  Julian Jaede ,  Duncan Robert Kerr ,  Sameer Pandya ,  Peter Russell-Clarke ,  Benjamin Andrew Shaffer ,  Mikael Silvanto ,  Sung-Ho Tan ,  Clement Tissandier ,  Eugene Antony Whang ,  Rico Zörkendörfer