Bryan W Posner

US Patent:

8395722, Mar 12, 2013

Filed:

Sep 29, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/249174

Inventors:

Dinesh C. Mathew - Fremont CA, US
Victor H. Yin - Cupertino CA, US
Bryan W. Posner - La Selva Beach CA, US
Chris Ligtenberg - San Carlos CA, US
Brett W. Degner - Menlo Park CA, US
Peteris K. Augenbergs - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G02F 1/1333
G02F 1/13333

US Classification:

349 58, 349 56

Abstract:

An electronic device housing may have upper and lower portions that are attached with a hinge. At least one portion of the housing may have a rear planar surface and peripheral sidewalls having edges. A display module may be mounted in the housing. The display module may have glass layers such as a color filter glass layer and a thin-film transistor substrate. The color filter glass layer may serve as the outermost glass layer in the display module. The edges of the display module may be aligned with the edges of the peripheral housing sidewalls to create the appearance of a borderless display for the electronic device. The display module may be provided with an opening that allows a camera or other electronic components to receive light. Traces may be provided on the underside of the thin-film transistor substrate to serve as signal paths for the electrical components.

US Patent:

8408780, Apr 2, 2013

Filed:

Jan 21, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/691714

Inventors:

Dinesh C. Mathew - Fremont CA, US
Victor H. Yin - Cupertino CA, US
Bryan W. Posner - La Selva Beach CA, US
Chris Ligtenberg - San Carlos CA, US
Brett W. Degner - Menlo Park CA, US
Peteris K. Augenbergs - San Francisco CA, US
Adam Garelli - Santa Clara CA, US

Assignee:

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

F21V 7/04

US Classification:

362632, 362633, 362634

Abstract:

An electronic device such as a portable computer may have a housing with a rectangular recess in which layers of display structures such as a light guide panel layer and other light guide structures are directly mounted without intervening chassis members. Mating alignment features in the housing and display structures may be used to align the display structures relative to the housing. A display may be formed from glass layers such as a color filter glass layer and a thin-film transistor glass layer. Backlight for the display may be generated by an array of light-emitting diodes. The light guide panel may direct light from the light-emitting diodes through the glass layers. A clamp may be used to hold the light-emitting diodes and light guide structures in place in the recess. An undercut in the housing may also hold the light guide structures in place.

US Patent:

8456586, Jun 4, 2013

Filed:

Jun 11, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/483206

Inventors:

Dinesh C. Mathew - Fremont CA, US
Victor H. Yin - Cupertino CA, US
Bryan W. Posner - La Selva Beach CA, US
Chris Ligtenberg - San Carlos CA, US
Brett W. Degner - Menlo Park CA, US
Peteris K. Augenbergs - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G02F 1/1335

US Classification:

349 58, 349 56

Abstract:

An electronic device housing may have upper and lower portions that are attached with a hinge. At least one portion of the housing may have a rear planar surface and peripheral sidewalls having edges. A display module may be mounted in the housing. The display module may have glass layers such as a color filter glass layer and a thin-film transistor substrate. The color filter glass layer may serve as the outermost glass layer in the display module. The edges of the display module may be aligned with the edges of the peripheral housing sidewalls to create the appearance of a borderless display for the electronic device. The display module may be provided with an opening that allows a camera or other electronic components to receive light. Traces may be provided on the underside of the thin-film transistor substrate to serve as signal paths for the electrical components.

US Patent:

8605232, Dec 10, 2013

Filed:

Jan 18, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/008300

Inventors:

Jun Qi - Cupertino CA, US
Bryan W. Posner - La Selva Beach CA, US
Dinesh C. Mathew - Fremont CA, US
Adam T. Garelli - Santa Clara CA, US
Victor H. Yin - Cupertino CA, US
Keith J. Hendren - Capitola CA, US
Laura M. DeForest - Sunnyvale CA, US
Peteris K. Augenbergs - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G02F 1/1335

US Classification:

349 62, 349 65, 349 67, 362609, 362612

Abstract:

A display may include a backlight structure. The backlight structure may include a light guide plate. Holes in the light guide plate may be configured to receive corresponding light-emitting diodes. The holes may separate an edge portion of the light guide plate from a main central portion of the light guide plate. Adhesive may be attached to the lower surface of the edge portion. The adhesive may be attached to a device housing or may be attached to a flex circuit that is attached to the housing with additional adhesive. The light-emitting diodes may be mounted within packages in pairs. The packages may be mounted on the flex circuit. Traces on part of the flex circuit may be covered by part of the light guide plate without any intervening adhesive. A reflective structure may be interposed between the traces and parts of the main portion of the light guide plate.

US Patent:

20100315769, Dec 16, 2010

Filed:

Jun 11, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/483205

Inventors:

Dinesh C. Mathew - Fremont CA, US
Nicholas Alan Rundle - Santa Clara CA, US
Bryan W. Posner - La Selva Beach CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 1/16
H05K 7/00
H05K 13/00

US Classification:

36167929, 36167927, 361747, 29764

Abstract:

An electronic device housing may contain a display module. The display module may contain layers of material such as a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. These layers of material may be mounted in a display module chassis. A cover glass may cover the display module. The housing may have springs that mate with corresponding holes in the chassis of the display module to hold the display module in place within the housing. The springs may flex about a flex axis that is perpendicular to a planar rear housing surface and the planar layers of the display module. A disassembly tool may be inserted into a gap between the cover glass and housing sidewalls. When the disassembly tool is rotated, a fin on the tool may press against an engagement structure in the spring and may release the spring from the display module.

US Patent:

20110109829, May 12, 2011

Filed:

Jan 21, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/691715

Inventors:

Dinesh C. Mathew - Fremont CA, US
Victor H. Yin - Cupertino CA, US
Bryan W. Posner - La Selva Beach CA, US
Chris Ligtenberg - San Carlos CA, US
Brett W. Degner - Menlo Park CA, US
Peteris K. Augenbergs - San Francisco CA, US
John Z. Zhong - Cupertino CA, US
Steve Hotelling - San Jose CA, US
Lynn Youngs - Cupertino CA, US
Kuo-Hua Sung - Sunnyvale CA, US

International Classification:

G02F 1/1335
B32B 38/00
H01J 9/24

US Classification:

349 58, 349106, 156267, 445 24

Abstract:

An electronic device display may have a color filter layer and a thin film transistor layer. A layer of liquid crystal material may be interposed between the color filter layer and the thin film transistor layer. A layer of polarizer may be laminated onto the surface of the color filter layer. Laser trimming may ensure that the edges of the polarizer are even with the edges of the color filter layer. The thin film transistor layer may have an array of thin film transistors that control pixels of the liquid crystal material in the display. Driver circuitry may be used to control the array. The driver circuitry may be encapsulated in a planarized encapsulant on the thin film transistor layer or may be mounted to the underside of the color filter layer. Conductive structures may connect driver circuitry on the color filter layer to the thin film transistor layer.

US Patent:

20120020000, Jan 26, 2012

Filed:

Sep 30, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/249653

Inventors:

Dinesh C. Mathew - Fremont CA, US
Victor H. Yin - Cupertino CA, US
Bryan W. Posner - La Selva Beach CA, US
Chris Ligtenberg - San Carlos CA, US
Brett W. Degner - Menol Park CA, US
Peteris K. Augenbergs - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 1/16

US Classification:

36167926

Abstract:

An electronic device housing may have upper and lower portions that are attached with a hinge. At least one portion of the housing may have a rear planar surface and peripheral sidewalls having edges. A display module may be mounted in the housing. The display module may have glass layers such as a color filter glass layer and a thin-film transistor substrate. The color filter glass layer may serve as the outermost glass layer in the display module. The edges of the display module may be aligned with the edges of the peripheral housing sidewalls to create the appearance of a borderless display for the electronic device. The display module may be provided with an opening that allows a camera or other electronic components to receive light. Traces may be provided on the underside of the thin-film transistor substrate to serve as signal paths for the electrical components.

US Patent:

20120020001, Jan 26, 2012

Filed:

Sep 30, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/249828

Inventors:

Dinesh C. Mathew - Fremont CA, US
Victor H. Yin - Cupertino CA, US
Bryan W. Posner - La Selva Beach CA, US
Chris Ligtenberg - San Carlos CA, US
Brett W. Degner - Menlo Park CA, US
Peteris K. Augenbergs - San Francisco CA, US
John Z. Zhong - Cupertino CA, US
Steve Hotelling - San Jose CA, US
Lynn Youngs - Cupertino CA, US
Kuo-Hua Sung - Sunnyvale CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 1/16

US Classification:

36167926

Abstract:

An electronic device display may have a color filter layer and a thin film transistor layer. A layer of liquid crystal material may be interposed between the color filter layer and the thin film transistor layer. A layer of polarizer may be laminated onto the surface of the color filter layer. Laser trimming may ensure that the edges of the polarizer are even with the edges of the color filter layer. The thin film transistor layer may have an array of thin film transistors that control pixels of the liquid crystal material in the display. Driver circuitry may be used to control the array. The driver circuitry may be encapsulated in a planarized encapsulant on the thin film transistor layer or may be mounted to the underside of the color filter layer. Conductive structures may connect driver circuitry on the color filter layer to the thin film transistor layer.