Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Zhicong Yao

Kenneth Charles Boman

Massood Nikkhah

Joseph Benjamin Gault

Scott Douglas Bowers

Han Li

Tianyu Zhao

Guang Lei Wang

An electronic device includes a display with a glass planar portion and a second material position at an outer edge of the glass planar portion. The glass planar portion defines a majority of a display surface of the display, and the second material is molded to the outer edge of the glass planar portion and defines at least part of a border portion. The second material is curved in a direction perpendicular to the display surface. The second material is composed of a first plurality of segments and a second plurality of segments. Each segment of the second plurality of segments is interposed between adjacent segments of the first plurality of segments, and the first plurality of segments interlock with the second plurality of segments.

Systems and methods for overmolding on electronic device surfaces

Enclosure covers for mobile computing devices are often formed from planar sections of sheet metal that form opposing outer-most layers thereof. The enclosure covers generally enclose and protect internal components. Enclosure covers for mobile computing devices are typically made from planar extrusions of aluminum with subsequent computer numerical control (CNC) machining and other processing steps to achieve complex shapes. Machining can be particularly wasteful of material and numerous processing steps are time-consuming and costly. The presently disclosed variable thickness enclosure covers sourced from extruded sheets of variable thickness reduce or eliminate machining and other processing steps typically required to achieve a desired complex shape. This is accomplished by extruding a shape closer to the desired shape of the variable thickness enclosure cover than presently known.

Variable thickness extruded mobile device enclosure covers

A method of manufacturing an electronic device housing includes obtaining a monolithic body of RF transparent material and plating a surface of the monolithic body with a nanograin coating to increase the structural rigidity of the monolithic body. A portion of the nanograin coating is thereafter removed to create an RF window.

Systems and methods for manufacturing electronic device housings

The description relates to devices, such as computing devices that can include structural assemblies. One example can include a structural component defining a periphery of the structural assembly and an internal region of the structural assembly. The example can also include a sacrificial component positioned in the internal region and secured to the structural component by a breakaway connector that defines a first void and an opposing second void that is at least partially offset from the first void.

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