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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jeremy C. Franklin, San Rafael, CA (US);
Scott A. Myers, Saratoga, CA (US);
Stephen Brian Lynch, Portola Valley, CA (US);
John Raff, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device may have a display with a bent portion such as one or more bent edge portions. The display may be formed from a flexible display layer such as an organic light-emitting-diode layer. The organic light-emitting-diode layer may include a substrate layer such as a sheet of polymer. The flexible display may be attached to a support structure such as a flexible support layer using adhesive. To facilitate bending, the display may be heated. Bending and heating equipment may simultaneously heat the display layer and the flexible support layer to form a bent edge portion for the display. The bending and heating equipment may include heated structures for pressing the display layer into a desired shape.