US 11,901,585 B2
Nanotwin copper components
Hoishun Li, San Jose, CA (US); Herng-Jeng Jou, San Jose, CA (US); James A. Yurko, Saratoga, CA (US); Wai Man Raymund Kwok, Hong Kong (HK); Zechariah D. Feinberg, San Francisco, CA (US); Daniel C. Wagman, Scotts Valley, CA (US); Eric S. Jol, San Jose, CA (US); and Hani Esmaeili, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 20, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/953,656.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/939,592, filed on Nov. 23, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0159477 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. H01M 50/531 (2021.01); H01M 10/0525 (2010.01); C22C 9/00 (2006.01); C22C 5/06 (2006.01); B82Y 30/00 (2011.01)
CPC H01M 50/531 (2021.01) [C22C 5/06 (2013.01); C22C 9/00 (2013.01); H01M 10/0525 (2013.01); B82Y 30/00 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A stock material, comprising:
a metallic material comprising crystal grains and having a thickness of greater than 50 microns; and
at least 90% of the crystal grains comprising nanotwin boundaries, wherein the crystal grains are equiaxial.