公开(公告)号：US11565506B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-31

申请号：US16143309

申请日：2018-09-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Victor Luzzato ,  Christopher D. Prest ,  Matthew S. Rogers ,  Dale N. Memering ,  Christopher C. Bartlow

IPC: B32B15/04 ,  B32B17/06 ,  B32B7/12 ,  C03B23/03 ,  C03C17/23 ,  C03C21/00 ,  C03C17/22 ,  C03B23/203 ,  C03C27/10 ,  C03C19/00

Abstract: Glass articles and methods for producing glass articles for a portable electronic device are disclosed. Properties of the glass articles, such as cover members, are improved through chemical strengthening, thermoforming, or a combination thereof. The glass articles may include barrier layers to prevent diffusion of ions between glass layers of the glass article, internal compressive stress regions, or a combination thereof.

公开(公告)号：US20230014168A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-19

申请号：US17951393

申请日：2022-09-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Joseph C. Poole ,  Matthew S. Rogers ,  Dale N. Memering

IPC: G06F1/16

Abstract: The disclosure provides members formed from multiple layers as well as enclosures and electronic devices that include the members. The members include glass members formed from multiple layers of glass. In some cases, the members include a protruding feature provided over a camera assembly of the electronic device. The member may define one or more through-holes that extend through the protruding feature. The protruding feature may define a textured region that may be configured to provide a matte or glossy appearance.

公开(公告)号：US20220342450A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-27

申请号：US17860643

申请日：2022-07-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Christopher D. Jones ,  Dale N. Memering ,  Christopher C. Bartlow

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G09F9/30 ,  H05K1/03 ,  H05K1/02

Abstract: Electronic devices including a display layer and a cover layer including a foldable region are disclosed herein. The display layer and the cover layer are configured to be moved between a folded configuration and an unfolded configuration by bending the cover layer along the foldable region. Methods of making a cover layer for an electronic device are also disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US11165046B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-02

申请号：US16806224

申请日：2020-03-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tseng-Mau Yang ,  Christopher D. Prest ,  Dale N. Memering

IPC: G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  H01L51/52 ,  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.

公开(公告)号：USRE48765E1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-05

申请号：US16359770

申请日：2019-03-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dale N. Memering ,  Michael M. Li

IPC: G06K19/06 ,  G06K1/12 ,  B28D5/00

Abstract: A manufacturing method for sapphire crystal material is disclosed, including a laser-etched bar code formed into the interior of the sapphire crystal material. The laser-etched bar code may be associated with one or more manufacturing parameters or other manufacturing data. The sapphire crystal may be used to create a cover sheet for use with a display screen of a portable electronic device.

公开(公告)号：US10800141B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-13

申请号：US16262855

申请日：2019-01-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Christopher C. Bartlow ,  Dale N. Memering ,  Tyler A. Marshall ,  Victor Luzzato

IPC: C03C21/00 ,  B32B17/00 ,  B32B17/06

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.

公开(公告)号：US10702211B2

公开(公告)日：2020-07-07

申请号：US15650744

申请日：2017-07-14

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.

公开(公告)号：US10579105B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-03

申请号：US16408317

申请日：2019-05-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Christopher D. Jones ,  Dale N. Memering ,  Christopher C. Bartlow

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G09F9/30 ,  H05K1/03 ,  H05K1/02 ,  H01L27/32 ,  H01L51/00

Abstract: Electronic devices including a display layer and a cover layer including a foldable region are disclosed herein. The display layer and the cover layer are configured to be moved between a folded configuration and an unfolded configuration by bending the cover layer along the foldable region. Methods of making a cover layer for an electronic device are also disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US20190169061A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-06

申请号：US16007851

申请日：2018-06-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Christopher D. Jones ,  Dale N. Memering

IPC: C03B32/02 ,  C03B23/03 ,  H05K5/00 ,  H05K5/03

Abstract: Methods are disclosed directed to a controlled crystallization (ceramic particle growth) of a shaped glass ceramic workpiece. The physical and chemical properties of the shaped glass ceramic of the present invention may be specified or tailored by shaping or machining the workpiece during or in combination with a controlled crystallization process that nucleates (precipitates) ceramic particles from a glass material. For example, in one embodiment, a non-crystalline amorphous solid may be heated above a transition temperature and shaped (e.g., molded, pressed, or the like). Ceramic particles may be precipitated within the solid during at least one of the heating or the shaping, thereby forming a shaped glass ceramic.

公开(公告)号：US10264690B2

公开(公告)日：2019-04-16

申请号：US15611329

申请日：2017-06-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Colin M. Ely ,  Dale N. Memering ,  Kazuya Takagi ,  Naoto Matsuyuki ,  Theodore A. Waniuk

IPC: H05K5/02 ,  C04B35/48 ,  C04B35/64 ,  C09C1/00 ,  C04B35/486

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a housing of an electronic device includes determining a sintering profile configured to produce a selected color at a selected depth within a wall of the housing, sintering a ceramic housing precursor in accordance with the determined sintering profile, thereby forming the housing, and removing material from the housing up to the selected depth.