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Michael Kane Pilliod

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Jonathan P Ive

Christos Gougoussis

Javier Verdura

Franz Von Holzhausen

William S Sweney

Radu I Muntean

Dante Lamastra

Kevin Fine

Paul Choiniere

Jeremy C Franklin

Daniel D Sunshine

Amy Qian

Andrew Everett Davidson

Donald K Ross

Rosemary Mottsmith

Christopher D Prest

Keith J Hendren

Douglas Joseph Weber

Craig C Leong

Adam Thomas Stagnaro

Michael Matthew Laurin

Caroline Park

Scott Tandoi

Kate Kuzina

Martha Evans Hankey

Tang Yew Tan

David A Pakula

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Erik G De Jong

Matthew D Hill

Matthew Theobald

James J Niu

Matthew S Rogers

Dale N Memering

Lucy Elizabeth Browning

Theodore Andrew Waniuk

Charles B Woodhull

Paul Puskarich

Bryan Patrick Kiple

James R Krogdahl

Rimple Bhatia

John Liu

Justin T Sawyer

Michael Coleman

Mike Laurin

Radu Muntean

Chuan Keat Low

Erin Mathews

Olliver J Lefevre

Michael M Laurin

Spyros Michail

Johnathan P Ive

Andrew Davidson

Grill portion for a battery enclosure

A multilayer glass stack for a vehicle windshield with improved durability is described. The multilayer glass stack includes an external-facing glass layer, an internal-facing glass layer, and an adhesive interlayer positioned between the external-facing and internal-facing glass layers. The external-facing glass layer may include borosilicate and/or does not include soda lime glass. Methods of manufacturing the multilayer glass stack are also described.

Durable glass for vehicle

Systems and methods for texturing substrates (e.g., glass, metal, and the like) and the textured substrates produced using such systems and methods are disclosed. An exemplary system for texturing a substrate includes a first roller and a second roller. The first roller has a first textured surface. The first textured surface has a root mean square roughness between 40 to 1000 microns and an autocorrelation function greater than 0.5 for distances less than 50 microns.

Process to make textured glass

An electronic device may have a glass housing structures. The glass housing structures may be used to cover a display and other internal electronic device components. The glass housing structure may have multiple glass pieces that are joined using a glass fusing process. A peripheral glass member may be fused along the edge of a planar glass member to enhance the thickness of the edge. A rounded edge feature may be formed by machining the thickened edge. Raised fused glass features may surround openings in the planar glass member. Multiple planar glass members may be fused together to form a five-sided box in which electronic components may be mounted. Raised support structure ribs may be formed by fusing glass structures to a planar glass member. Opaque masking material and colored glass may be used to create portions of the glass housing structures that hide internal device components from view.

Glass device housings

Systems and methods for texturing substrates (e.g., glass, metal, and the like) and the textured substrates produced using such systems and methods are disclosed. An exemplary textured substrate includes a surface having a portion with a root-mean-square roughness between 40 to 1000 microns and an autocorrelation function greater than 0.5 for distances less than 50 microns. An exemplary system for texturing a substrate includes a plunger with a textured surface, where a portion of the textured surface has a root-mean-square roughness between 40 to 1000 microns and an autocorrelation function greater than 0.5 for distances less than 50 microns. An exemplary method for texturing a substrate includes the steps of generating a pattern defining a texture, and 3-D printing the pattern on the substrate to form the texture.

A glass structure for a vehicle includes an outer layer of glass, an inner layer of glass, and an interlayer stack disposed between opposing surfaces of the outer layer of glass and the inner layer of glass. The interlayer stack includes at least two interlayer substrates and at least one of the interlayer substrates includes a decorative treatment. In another example, the interlayer stack includes at least two interlayer substrates and at least one of the interlayer substrates includes a functional component.

Functional interlayers for vehicle glazing systems

A solar panel includes a plurality of photovoltaic cells embedded in a layer of encapsulant. A textured and/or colored layer is positioned on a back side of the layer of encapsulant. The textured and/or colored layer matches a color and/or texture of the plurality of photovoltaic cells. A top layer is positioned on a front side of the layer of encapsulant.

Obscuring, color matching, and camouflaging solar panels

Enclosure panel with LED charging indicator

A solar panel includes a backsheet layer, a bottom encapsulant layer adjacent the backsheet layer, a plurality of photovoltaic cells adjacent the bottom encapsulant layer, a top encapsulant layer adjacent the plurality of photovoltaic cells having a plurality of louvers constructed therein to block side view of the plurality of photovoltaic cells, and a top layer adjacent the top encapsulant layer.

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Michael Kane Pilliod