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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2013
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Lian Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Amaury J. Heresztyn, Cupertino, CA (US);
Frank F. Liang, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V 29/00 (2015.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); H05K 7/20 (2006.01); H05K 5/00 (2006.01); H01L 23/373 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/20436 (2013.01); H01L 23/373 (2013.01); H04M 1/0266 (2013.01); H05K 5/0017 (2013.01); G02F 1/13338 (2013.01); G06F 3/0412 (2013.01); H01L 2924/0002 (2013.01); Y10T 156/10 (2015.01);
Abstract
The described embodiments relate generally to thermal management and more particularly to a method and apparatus for providing thermal insulation from relatively small heat sources in small form factor electronic devices. An insulator layer can be placed between a small heat source and an exterior surface of the device, such as a cover glass layer. In one embodiment, a graphite layer can also be included between the cover glass layer and the insulator layer to spread any transmitted heat across the cover glass layer.