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Christopher D Prest

Joseph C Poole

Theodore Andrew Waniuk

Matthew S Scott

Dermot J Stratton

Stephen Paul Zadesky

Joseph W Stevick

Dale N Memering

Emery Artemus Sanford

Martha Evans Hankey

Sean Timothy O'Keeffe

Matthew S Rogers

Lucy Elizabeth Browning

Way Chet Lim

Stephen Brian Lynch

Tseng-Mau Yang

Quoc Tran Pham

Que Anh S Nguyen

Marta M Giachino

David A Pakula

Douglas Joseph Weber

Cameron P Frazier

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Kurt R Stiehl

James R Wilson

Michael S Nashner

Christopher D Jones

Trent Weber

Victor Luzzato

Jody R Akana

Colin M Ely

Masashige Tatebe

Quin C Hoellwarth

James A Yurko

Jeffrey Y Hayashida

Jahan C Minoo

Edward Siahaan

Wey-Jiun Lin

Brian S Tryon

Victor Manuel Tiscareno

Michelle Yu

Richard Walter Heley

Jeffrey Lee Mattlin

Dinesh C Mathew

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

John Raff

Albert John Golko

Ibuki Kamei

David E Kingman

Donald R Monroe

Phil M Hobson

Paul Choiniere

Daniel T McDonald

Derek C Scott

Jonathan P Ive

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky

Phillip Michael Hobson

Jean-Pierre Simon Guillou

Bradley Joseph Hamel

Marwan Rammah

Kyle H Yeates

Michael Kane Pilliod

Tyler Robin Kakuda

Richard Hung Dinh

Rasamy Phouthavong

Juan Zavala

Wim Crooijmans

Eugene Antony Whang

Daniele De Iuliis

M Evans Hankey

Steven Porter Hotelling

Tang Yew Tan

Erik L Wang

Teodor Dabov

Benjamin M Rappoport

Benjamin J Pope

Jonah Alexander Harley

Ashutosh Yugesh Shukla

Robert Y Cao

Naoto Matsuyuki

Craig Matthew Stanley

John Gee Tang

James A Curran

Simon R Lancaster-Larocque

Charles B Woodhull

Michael J Brown

Ari P Miller

Yi Qiao

Bryan Patrick Kiple

Abhijeet Misra

Osamu Yabe

Christopher C Bartlow

Todd S Mintz

Zechariah D Feinberg

Eric Weijia Wang

Hoishun Li

A component for an electronic device can include a pre-formed substrate comprising a first metal and an additively manufactured portion bonded to the pre-formed substrate. The additively manufactured portion can include a first portion comprising a second metal and defining a volume, the first portion having a first value of a material property, and a second portion disposed in the volume, the second portion having a second value of the material property that is different from the first value.

Additively manufactured device enclosures

An electronic device such as a wristwatch may include a conductive housing. A corrosion-resistant coating may be deposited on the conductive housing. The coating may include transition layers and an uppermost alloy layer. The transition layers may include a chromium seed layer on the conductive housing and a chromium nitride layer on the chromium seed layer. The uppermost alloy layer may include TiCrCN or other alloys and may provide the coating with desired optical reflection and absorption characteristics. The transition layers may include a minimal number of coating defects, thereby eliminating potential sites at which visible defects could form when exposed to salt water. This may allow the electronic device to exhibit a desired color and to be submerged in salt water without producing undesirable visible defects on the conductive housing structures.

Electronic devices having corrosion-resistant coatings

An electronic device includes a six-sided glass enclosure defining an interior volume and comprising a first glass member and a second glass member. The first glass member defines at least a portion of a first major side of the six-sided glass enclosure, at least a portion of a peripheral side of the six-sided glass enclosure, a first region along the peripheral side and having a first thickness, and a second region along the peripheral side and having a second thickness different from the first thickness. The second glass member is attached to the first glass member and defines at least a portion of a second major side of the six-sided glass enclosure. The electronic device further includes a touchscreen display within the interior volume and positioned adjacent at least a portion of each of the six sides of the six-sided glass enclosure.

Electronic device with glass enclosure

An electronic device may have a housing surrounding an interior in which electrical components are mounted. A display may be mounted to housing structures in the device. The housing may have a rear wall. The display cover layer and rear wall of the housing may be formed from transparent glass layers. Coatings may be formed on inwardly facing surfaces of the transparent glass layers. A coating on a transparent glass layer may be formed from a thin-film interference filter having a stack of dielectric layers. The coating may include an ink layer on the thin-film interference filter.

Coatings for transparent substrates in electronic devices

An in-ear listening device having a device housing including a speaker housing and an elongated tube protruding away from the speaker housing, an audio port formed through the speaker housing, a speaker disposed in the speaker housing and aligned to emit sound through the audio port, a microphone port formed through the elongated tube, a microphone disposed in the elongated tube and operatively coupled to receive sound through the microphone port, a rechargeable battery and a wireless antenna disposed within the device housing, wireless circuitry coupled to the wireless antenna and configured to input and output radio frequency signals for wireless communications, a user-interface touch control disposed on the device housing and operable to control a function of the earbud, and battery charging circuitry coupled to the rechargeable battery and positioned within the device housing and operable to charge the rechargeable battery when coupled to receive power from an external power source.

In-ear wireless device

A handheld computing device that includes an enclosure having structural walls formed from a glass material that can be radio-transparent. The enclosure can be formed from a hollow glass tube or two glass members bonded together. A laser frit bonding process may be used to hermetically seal the two glass members together to create a water resistant electronic device.

Glass enclosure

Glass ceramic components for electronic devices are disclosed, as are components including a glass ceramic material. A cover member including a glass ceramic material may be positioned over one or more device components such as an optical module or a component of a wireless communication or charging system. The cover member may have optical properties, electrical properties, magnetic properties, and/or mechanical properties compatible with the requirements of the one or more device components.

Electronic devices including glass ceramic components

Asymmetrically strengthened glass articles, methods for producing the same, and use of the articles in portable electronic device is disclosed. The asymmetrically strengthened glass articles include glass articles having a deeper compressive stress layer in a thicker portion of the glass article. Using a budgeted amount of compressive stress and tensile stress, asymmetric chemical strengthening is optimized for the utility of a glass article. In some aspects, the strengthened glass article can be designed for reduced damage, or damage propagation, when dropped.

Asymmetric chemical strengthening

An electronic device may have a display overlapped by a cover layer. Portions of the surface of the display and cover layer may have curved profiles. The display may include a flexible substrate and may have bent edge portions protruding from a central region. Gaps may be formed between regions of pixels on a common substrate or between separate display panels. Gap-overlapping structures may overlap the gaps to hide internal components from view or to blend the appearance of gaps with the appearance of adjoining portions of a display layer. The gap-overlapping structures may include light sources such as crystalline semiconductor light-emitting diodes. The diodes may emit light through light diffusing structures. Protruding display layer fingers and other structures may be used to accommodate display cover layer surfaces with curved profiles such as corner surfaces of compound curvature.

Electronic devices having displays with curved surfaces

An electronic device may be provided with optical markers. A marker may be formed from a coating. The coating may be patterned to form a two-dimensional optical code or may be patterned to form an outline or other recognizable marker structure that helps provide information about an electronic device. A device with a sensor such as a depth sensor or other sensor may gather information on the electronic device and its markers. This information may include information on images captured with an image sensor while the electronic device is illuminated by one or more light beams from the depth sensor or other light sources. Markers may be configured to serve as mixed reality optical markers in a mixed reality system. Analysis of the mixed reality marker images or other sensor data may reveal information on device type, device location, device size, device orientation, and other information on a marked device.

Electronic devices with optical markers

A display may have an array of display pixels that generate an image. A coherent fiber bundle may be mounted on the display pixels. The coherent fiber bundle may have a first surface that is adjacent to the display pixels and a second surface that is visible to a viewer. The coherent fiber bundle may contain fibers that carry light from the first surface to the second surface. The second surface may be planar or may have a central planar region and curved edge regions that run along opposing sides of the central planar region. The fibers may have cross-sectional surface areas with a first aspect ratio on the first surface and a second aspect ratio that is greater than the first aspect ratio on the second surface.

Displays with coherent fiber bundles

An electronic device may include electrical components and other components mounted within an interior of a housing. The device may have a display on a front face of the device and may have a glass layer that forms part of the housing on a rear face of the device. The glass layer may be provided with regions having different appearances. The regions may be textured, may have coatings such as thin-film interference filter coatings formed from stacks of dielectric material having alternating indices of refraction, may have metal coating layers, and/or may have ink coating layers. Textured surfaces may be formed on thin glass layers and polymer films that are coupled to the glass layer. A glass layer may be formed from a pair of coupled glass layers. The coupled layers may have one or more recesses or other structures to visually distinguish different regions of the glass layer.

Patterned glass layers in electronic devices

A glass fastening system includes a glass portion, a support structure defining a recess, a first adhesive layer disposed on an exterior surface of the glass portion facing the recess in the support structure, a second adhesive layer disposed within the recess of the support structure, and a fastener having a first portion secured to the first adhesive layer and a second portion extending away from the first portion and into the second adhesive layer to secure the glass portion to the support structure.

Glass fastening and sealing systems

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