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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Timothy W. Scales, San Francisco, CA (US);
Whitney D. Mattson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Benjamin A. Stevenson, Oakland, CA (US);
Linda D. Benavente-Notaro, Sherman Oaks, CA (US);
Nicholas R. Trincia, San Francisco, CA (US);
William H. Chui, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hao Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An item may be formed from layers of material such as leatherboard layers. A leatherboard layer may include fibrous natural material such as leather or paper embedded in polymer. Portions of the leatherboard layer can be locally modified by incorporation of filler material with desired properties. The filler material may include magnetic particles, conductive particles, or other material. By incorporating the filler material in localized portions of the leatherboard layer, integral electrodes or magnets may be formed. The leatherboard layer may also include embedded circuitry. Items such as enclosures and other items may be formed from the leatherboard layer. The leatherboard layer in an item may include locally modified regions such as magnet regions that are configured to form a closure or other structures that interact with each other.