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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2023
Filed:
May. 07, 2020
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
James A. Curran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alan Kleiman-Shwarsctein, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Leon J. Garcia, Jr., Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G02B 5/20 (2006.01); C25D 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/1656 (2013.01); C25D 11/005 (2013.01); G02B 5/208 (2013.01); G06F 1/1637 (2013.01);
Abstract
This application relates to an enclosure for a portable electronic device. The enclosure includes a metal substrate, and an anodized layer overlaying the metal substrate and including pores having a near-infrared (NIR) light-absorbing material therein, where an average specular reflectance of NIR light that is incident upon an external surface of the anodized layer is less than 3%.