Apple Inc.

Dale N Memering

Christopher D Prest

Matthew S Rogers

Christopher D Jones

Tseng-Mau Yang

Christopher C Bartlow

Victor Luzzato

Erik G De Jong

Theodore Andrew Waniuk

Naoto Matsuyuki

Colin M Ely

Kazuya Takagi

Tyler A Marshall

Scott A Myers

Stephen Brian Lynch

Ibuki Kamei

Michael M Li

Paul David Mannheimer

John Raff

Douglas Joseph Weber

Albert John Golko

Maegan K Spencer

David E Kingman

Adam Thomas Clavelle

Donald R Monroe

Phil M Hobson

Ueyn L Block

James A Yurko

Derek C Scott

Jaden A Barney

Vincent Yan

Juan A Lazaro

Jeffrey C Mylvaganam

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Fletcher R Rothkopf

David A Pakula

Jonathan Sarjeant Aase

Joseph C Poole

Samuel Bruce Weiss

Cameron P Frazier

Jing Jing Zhang

Palaniappan Chinnakaruppan

Srikanth Kamireddi

Sawako Kamei

Anthony J Richter

Xiao Bing Cai

Jong Kong Lee

Feng Min

Xiang Du

Sai Feng Liu

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Tang Yew Tan

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Benjamin J Pope

Sawyer Isaac Cohen

Ashutosh Yugesh Shukla

Sameer Pandya

Michael Kane Pilliod

Charles B Woodhull

Que Anh S Nguyen

Paul Choiniere

Bryan Patrick Kiple

Kristina A Babiarz

Alexander W Williams

Daniel J Barrett

Thomas Johannessen

Naoki Okahata

Matthew N Van Dyke

Peter Russell-Clark

Jason J Huey

Ping Chen

Alexander M Hoffman

Dezheng Qu

Chien-Wei Huang

Scott A Meyers

Vashist Vasanthakumar

Differentially strengthened cover members for electronic devices are disclosed. The differentially strengthened cover members include at least one chemically strengthened zone that improves the resistance of the cover member to cracking. In some examples, one or more of the chemically strengthened zones covers or at least partially surrounds a portion of the cover member to be protected from damage.

Electronic devices having differentially strengthened cover members

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.

Foldable cover and display for an electronic device

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.

Sensor window with integrated isolation feature

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

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.

Glass cover member for an electronic device enclosure

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

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.

Electronic device having a component with crack hindering internal stress regions

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

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.

Borderless display with light-bending structures

Disclosed herein is a substrate for an electronic device. The substrate has a visually imperceptible surface texture that exhibits different coefficients of friction on various input objects. In some implementations, the texture of the textured substrate is created using a gas etching process.

Substrate having a visually imperceptible texture for providing variable coefficients of friction between objects

An electronic device may have a display and other optical components such as optical sensors. The display and other components may be overlapped by chemically strengthened glass coherent fiber bundles. The surfaces of a coherent fiber bundle may include ion-exchanged glass that places theses surfaces under compressive stress. In some configurations, the coherent fiber bundle is symmetrically stressed and has equal amounts of compressive stress on opposing surfaces. In other configurations, the coherent fiber bundle is asymmetrically stressed and has more compressive stress on one surface than the other. The coherent fiber bundle may have areas with curved cross-sectional profiles, planar areas, and/or areas with compound curvature. Sensor windows may be formed in the coherent fiber bundle that are surrounded by an opaque area. When overlapping a display, the coherent fiber bundle may serve as a display cover glass layer.

Electronic devices with chemically strengthened coherent fiber bundles

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 upper structures formed from a sheet of glass and lower optical structures that lie beneath the sheet of glass may be configured to bend light from the display pixels along the periphery of the active display structure. The upper optical structures may have an area that is larger than the area of the active display structure, so that the presence of the optical structures may serve to enlarge the apparent size of the display. The lower and upper optical structures may have curved surfaces for bending the light.

Multiple-element light-bending structures for minimizing display borders

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.

Thermoformed cover glass for an electronic device

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Dale N Memering