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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2023
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ivan S. Maric, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Jan K. Quijalvo, San Jose, CA (US);

Marinus Meursing, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G02B 27/0093 (2013.01); G02B 27/0101 (2013.01); G02B 27/0176 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0132 (2013.01);
Abstract

A head-mounted display a housing, two display modules, and a head support. The two display modules ae coupled to the housing. Each of the two display modules includes a display for outputting light that forms graphical content, a lens for refracting the light output by the display, and an eye illuminator. The eye illuminator includes a light-emitting diode, a flexible circuit to which the light-emitting diode is coupled, and a stiffener laminated to the flexible circuit with one or fewer layers of adhesive. The lens is removably coupled to the display indirectly by the stiffener. The head support is coupled to the housing for supporting the housing on a head of a user with the two display modules positioned to provide the graphical content to eyes of the user.


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