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Patent No.:

US 9909201 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 04, 2012

Consumer electronics machined housing using coating that exhibit metamorphic transformation

Applicants:

Christopher D. Prest, San Francisco, CA (US);

Matthew S. Scott, Campbell, CA (US);

Stephen P. Zadesky, Portola Valley, CA (US);

Dermot J. Stratton, San Francisco, CA (US);

Joseph C. Poole, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Christopher D. Prest, San Francisco, CA (US);

Matthew S. Scott, Campbell, CA (US);

Stephen P. Zadesky, Portola Valley, CA (US);

Dermot J. Stratton, San Francisco, CA (US);

Joseph C. Poole, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Humera N Sheikh

Assistant Examiner:

Xiaobei Wang

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22C 45/00 (2006.01); C22C 38/00 (2006.01); C23C 4/18 (2006.01); C23C 24/04 (2006.01); C23C 4/067 (2016.01); C22C 19/07 (2006.01); C22C 38/18 (2006.01); C22C 38/24 (2006.01); C22C 38/28 (2006.01); C22C 38/32 (2006.01); C22C 38/34 (2006.01); C22C 38/38 (2006.01); C22C 38/42 (2006.01); C22C 38/44 (2006.01); C22C 38/50 (2006.01); C22C 38/54 (2006.01); C22C 45/02 (2006.01); B22F 9/08 (2006.01); C22C 1/04 (2006.01); C22C 32/00 (2006.01); C22C 33/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 4/18 (2013.01); C22C 19/07 (2013.01); C22C 38/18 (2013.01); C22C 38/24 (2013.01); C22C 38/28 (2013.01); C22C 38/32 (2013.01); C22C 38/34 (2013.01); C22C 38/38 (2013.01); C22C 38/42 (2013.01); C22C 38/44 (2013.01); C22C 38/50 (2013.01); C22C 38/54 (2013.01); C22C 45/02 (2013.01); C23C 4/067 (2016.01); C23C 24/04 (2013.01); B22F 9/08 (2013.01); C22C 1/045 (2013.01); C22C 1/0458 (2013.01); C22C 1/0466 (2013.01); C22C 32/0047 (2013.01); C22C 33/0278 (2013.01); C22C 33/0285 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments provide materials, parts, and methods useful for electronic devices. One embodiment includes providing a coating on at least one surface of a substrate, increasing an amorphicity of the coating, and incorporating the substrate including the coating having increased amorphicity into an electronic device. Another embodiment relates to frictionally transforming a coating from crystalline into amorphous to form a metamorphically transformed coating for an electronic device. Another embodiment relates to an electronic device part having a metamorphically transformed coating disposed on at least one surface thereof.

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