Apple Inc.

Bryan W Posner

Dinesh C Mathew

Victor H Yin

Adam T Garelli

Brett W Degner

Thomas W Wilson, Jr

Keith J Hendren

Robert Y Cao

Peteris K Augenbergs

Jun Qi

Chris A Ligtenberg

Mikael M Silvanto

Simon R Lancaster-Larocque

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Christiaan A Ligtenberg

Denis H Endisch

Bartley K Andre

John Z Zhong

Alex Joseph Lehmann

Kevin M Robinson

Zheng Gao

Steve Porter Hotelling

Houtan R Farahani

Lynn Richard Youngs

Kuo-Hua Sung

Eric Lee Benson

Wei Chen

Ron Alan Hopkinson

Asif Hussain

Chang Zhang

Bruce E Berg

Robert J Lockwood

Karan Bir

Daniele De Iuliis

Wey-Jiun Lin

Kevin M Keeler

Joss Nathan Giddings

Jacob Seth Kononiuk

Yi-Chen Kuo

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Christopher J Stringer

Martha Evans Hankey

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniel J Coster

Jody R Akana

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Jeremy D Bataillou

Julian Hoenig

Paul Stephen Drzaic

Cheng Kai Chen

Simon Regis Louis Lancaster-Larocque

Christopher L Boitnott

Shota Aoyagi

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Meizi Jiao

Shih Chang Chang

Sung-Ho Tan

Stephen Robert McClure

Zhibing Ge

Bradley Joseph Hamel

Craig C Leong

Yuan Chen

Jiaying Wu

Shih-Chang Chang

Nicholas Alan Rundle

Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang

Laura M DeForest

Nathan K Gupta

Xiaokai Li

Carl R Peterson

Paul V Johnson

Bart K Andre

Abhijit Ashok Kangude

Joshua A Spechler

Jason N Gomez

Chia Hsuan Tai

Sudirukkuge T Jinasundera

Weibo Cheng

Mengyang Liang

Shih-Wei Chang

Prithu Sharma

Victor Hao-En Yin

Thomas W Wilson

Kamal Husam Habboub

Valerie S Chang

Laura Michelle Deforest

Simon Regis Louis Lancaster-larocque

Eric L Benson

Simon R Lancaster-Laroque

Jacob S Kononiuk

A display may include a color filter layer, a liquid crystal layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. A camera window may be formed in the display to accommodate a camera. The camera window may be formed by creating a notch in the thin-film transistor layer that extends inwardly from the edge of the thin-film transistor layer. The notch may be formed by scribing the thin-film transistor layer around the notch location and breaking away a portion of the thin-film transistor layer. A camera window may also be formed by grinding a hole in the display. The hole may penetrate partway into the thin-film transistor layer, may penetrate through the transistor layer but not into the color filter layer, or may pass through the thin-film transistor layer and partly into the color filter layer.

Displays with camera window openings

An electronic device can include a base portion and a display portion rotatably mounted to the base portion. The display portion can have a display housing including a trim that at least partially defines an orifice and a portion of the exterior surface of the electronic device. A display call can be positioned at the orifice in contact with the trim and can be secured to the display housing.

Electronic device display

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.

Portable computer display structures

A portable computer includes a display portion comprising a display and a base portion pivotally coupled to the display portion. The base portion may include a bottom case and a top case, formed from a dielectric material, coupled to the bottom case. The top case may include a top member defining a top surface of the base portion and a sidewall integrally formed with the top member and defining a side surface of the base portion. The portable computer may also include a sensing system including a first sensing system configured to determine a location of a touch input applied to the top surface of the base portion and a second sensing system configured to determine a force of the touch input.

Device having integrated interface system

Cable assemblies for providing electrical communication between hinged sections of an electronic device are described. The cable assemblies can include a cover that covers one or more cables that run through a hinge region of the electronic device. The cable and cover can be drawn over a mandrel of the hinge region. The cover and the portions of the mandrel can be visible to a user at the hinge region of the electronic device. The cover can be sufficiently rigid to guide a path of the cable and protect the cable from bending beyond a prescribed angle during rotation of the electronic device at the hinge region. The cover can also be sufficiently rigid to prevent ceasing or folding of the cover and the cable during rotation of the electronic device at the hinge region.

Mandrel flex circuit routing

A computing device can include a housing including a peripheral housing defining an aperture, the peripheral housing having a constant cross-sectional area. The computing device can also include a display having a first major surface and a second major surface opposing the first major surface, the display disposed within the aperture defined by the peripheral housing and attached to the housing at one or more locations such that the first major surface and the second major surface of the display are substantially unobstructed by any other portion of the computing device.

Peripheral housing for a computing device

Apparatuses and systems can mitigate the ingress of debris such as small foreign particles or fluids passing into a joint of an electronic device. Some aspects of the systems prevent particles from passing between a flexible cable and a mandrel surface used to limit bending of the cable. Other aspects provide particle relief features including gaps, grooves, or reduced-size sections of the mandrel so that particles can pass into them and thereby cause no damage or pass out of the electronic device. Another aspect provides a protective layer configured to limit pressure applied to the cable by particles or other contaminants. These apparatuses and systems can improve the life and durability of the mandrel and cable, thereby improving the reliability of operating the electronic device.

Flexible cable durability

Invasive material ingress mitigation and control features are positioned in a hinge that uses a flexible cable and cable cover at a gap between housings of a portable electronic device. The features include hydrophobic materials on the cover or a cover-facing surface of the device housing, a barrier between the cover and the device housing, channels or protrusions on the cover-facing surface of the top case, a series of different top case surface feature modifications, and a flex cover profile modification that controls and limits contacting surface area between the cover and the top case.

Liquid ingress control for electronic devices

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Bryan W Posner