US 11,747,632 B1
Electronic devices with optical component protection
Ritu Shah, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Forrest C. Wang, Petaluma, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/401,130.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/076,830, filed on Sep. 10, 2020.
Int. Cl. G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/0362 (2013.01)
CPC G02B 27/0176 (2013.01) [G02B 27/0101 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0154 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A head-mounted device, comprising:
a head-mounted support structure having a rear face and an opposing front face;
rear-facing displays that are supported by the head-mounted support structure and that are configured to provide images viewable from eye boxes;
a front-facing display on the front face, wherein the front-facing display has an array of pixels and a display cover layer that overlaps the array of pixels;
an optical component;
a shutter system between the optical component and an inner surface of the display cover layer; and
an opaque masking layer on the inner surface of the display cover layer in an inactive border area of the front-facing display, wherein the opaque masking layer has an opening aligned with the optical component, and wherein the shutter system has an actuator and a movable shutter member that is movable by the actuator between a first position in which the movable shutter member does not cover the optical component and a second position in which the movable shutter member covers the optical component.