Apple Inc.

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Chris A Ligtenberg

Brett W Degner

Bartley K Andre

Ron Alan Hopkinson

John Raff

John M Brock

Michelle Rae Goldberg

Dinesh C Mathew

Victor H Yin

Thomas W Wilson, Jr

Bryan W Posner

Peteris K Augenbergs

Bradley Joseph Hamel

Matthew Phillip Casebolt

Patrick Kessler

Gavin J Reid

Robert L Coish

Eugene J Kim

David John Yeh

Daniel J Coster

John C Difonzo

John C DiFonzo

Christopher J Stringer

Zheng Gao

Laura M DeForest

Euan S Abraham

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

John Z Zhong

Steven Porter Hotelling

Steve Porter Hotelling

Lynn Richard Youngs

Matthew Theobald

Kuo-Hua Sung

Steven Keiper

Keith J Hendren

Michael F Culbert

Charles A Schwalbach

William Francis Leggett

Caitlin Elizabeth Kalinowski

Nicholas Alan Rundle

Greg Springer

Jim C Hwang

Timothy S Hibbard

Jay Kevin Osborn

Mikael M Silvanto

Imran A Chaudhri

Gregory N Christie

Bas Ording

Brian Quentin Huppi

Douglas Blake Kough

Joshua A Strickon

Paul Stephen Drzaic

Jun Qi

Joshua D Banko

Min Chul Kim

James J Niu

Glenn Wheelock

Harold James Welch

R Sean Murphy

Chad Andrew Bronstein

Po-Wen Chiu

Erin Turullols

Michael D Hillman

Paul James Wehrenberg

Bradley Landon Spare

Mi Zhou

Cheng Ping Tan

Ruchi Goel

Stewart Shannon Fields

Eric Monsef

Josh Pong

Hank D Ching

Tomas E Ponce

Nicholas V King

John Patrick Ternus

Erik James Shahoian

Aleksandar Pance

Michael D McBroom

Adam T Garelli

David H Narajowski

Sung Hoon Kim

Daniel Lynn McBroom

William P Cornelius

Kevin Scott Fetterman

Ihab A Ali

George V Anastas

Robert Sean Murphy

Brian Thomas Sudderth

Eric Andrew Knopf

Nathan Nicholas Ng

Peter M Arnold

Bart K Andre

Steven G Siefert

Alex J Crumlin

Todd F Gotham

David A Hardell

Joshua J Pong

James Edmund Orr, Iv

Aaron N Miletich

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 top case assembly for a portable computer is disclosed. The assembly may include an integral unified (e.g., homogenous) top case formed from a single part. The integral top case provides an enclosure, frame and cosmetic exterior of the portable computer. The integral top case also serves as the primary structure of the portable computer. The assembly may include a variety of subassemblies such as keyboards, touchpads, circuit boards, and drives that are carried by the underside of the integral top case. The integral top case may be formed from aluminum slab that has been machined to form walls, openings, attachment areas and cosmetic areas of the top case.

Portable computer unified top case

In one exemplary embodiment, a portable computer having a display assembly coupled to a base assembly to alternate between a closed position and an open position. Palm rest areas are formed by a touchpad disposed on the surface of the base assembly. In an alternative embodiment, a touchpad disposed on the base assembly has a width that extends substantially into the palm rests areas of the base assembly.

Wide touchpad on a portable computer

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.

Methods for fabricating display structures

A computing device is disclosed. The computing device may include a display, a processor in communication with the display and an enclosure connected to the display. The computing device may also include an input/output (I/O) device in communication with the processor. The I/O device may also be connected to the enclosure. Additionally, the I/O device may include a modifiable display that may substantially match the appearance of the enclosure.

Input/output device with a dynamically adjustable appearance and function

A portable computing device includes at least a base portion of a lightweight material that includes at least a wedge shaped top case having a trough formed at an interfacing edge thereof. The trough includes a raised portion having a first contact surface and a receiving area, and a bottom case coupled to the top case to form a complete housing for at least a portion of the portable computing device for enclosing at least a plurality of operational components and a plurality of structural components. The portable computing device also includes at least a lid portion pivotally connected to the base portion by a hinge assembly. In the described embodiments, the lid portion has a display in communication with one or more of the plurality of components in the base portion by way of or more electrical conductors that electrically connect the base portion to the lid portion.

Portable computing device

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San Carlos, CA, United States of America

Chris A Ligtenberg