Apple Inc.

Google Inc.

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

David Bibl

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Leo Benedict Baldwin

Hayes Solos Raffle

Michael Arthur Simonian

Albert Lee

Sandeep Singh Waraich

Eric Allan MacIntosh

Aviv Shoval

Carmela Guizar-Sanchez

Stuart Douglas

Darcy Grinolds

HongWei Zheng

Matthew Rohrbach

Fibers may be intertwined to form structures for electronic devices and other parts. Fibers may be intertwined using computer-controlled braiding, weaving, and knitting equipment. Binder materials may be selectively incorporated into the intertwined fibers. By controlling the properties of the intertwined fibers and the patterns of incorporated binder, structures can be formed that include antenna windows, sound-transparent and sound-blocking structures, structures that have integral rigid and flexible portions, and tubes with seamless forked portions. Fiber-based structures such as these may be used to form cables and other parts of headphones or other electronic device accessories, housings for electronic devices such as housings for portable computers, and other structures.

Electronic device accessories formed from intertwined fibers

Lanyard

Fiber-based electronic device structures

A cover glass element can extend to the edges of an electronic device while maintaining the optical flatness and thickness needed for the cover glass. A first glass sheet with the desired thickness and flatness can be thermally bonded to a second glass sheet machined to include an opening to be received by the edges of the electronic device. The resulting three-dimensional cover element forms a uni-body frame that is significantly stiffer than a single sheet of glass, and the larger surface area of the edge provides for enhances pressure distribution, particularly after chemical strengthening, thus enhancing the durability of the electronic device. Further, the thermal bonding process uses lower temperatures than processes such as slumping or pressing, which could potentially affect the flatness and optical clarity of the original sheet glass.

Cover glass for electronic devices

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David Bibl