US 11,991,901 B2
Electronic devices with flexible display cover layers
Hoon Sik Kim, San Jose, CA (US); Terry C. Lam, Mountain View, CA (US); Chang-Chia Huang, San Jose, CA (US); Paul S. Drzaic, Morgan Hill, CA (US); Yasmin F. Afsar, San Jose, CA (US); Young Cheol Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Leiming Wang, Foster City, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/194,530.
Application 18/194,530 is a division of application No. 17/879,705, filed on Aug. 2, 2022, granted, now 11,647,648.
Application 17/879,705 is a division of application No. 16/774,948, filed on Jan. 28, 2020, granted, now 11,444,268, issued on Sep. 13, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/824,168, filed on Mar. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0240093 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. H10K 77/10 (2023.01); G09F 9/30 (2006.01); G09F 9/33 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01); H05K 7/20 (2006.01); H10K 50/842 (2023.01); H10K 50/844 (2023.01); H10K 50/87 (2023.01); H10K 71/00 (2023.01); H10K 102/00 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 50/87 (2023.02) [G09F 9/301 (2013.01); G09F 9/335 (2021.05); H04M 1/0268 (2013.01); H05K 7/20954 (2013.01); H10K 50/8426 (2023.02); H10K 50/844 (2023.02); H10K 71/00 (2023.02); H10K 77/111 (2023.02); H10K 71/861 (2023.02); H10K 2102/311 (2023.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a housing that bends about a bend axis; and
a display in the housing that bends about the bend axis, wherein the display comprises a display cover layer having first and second rigid portions and a flexible portion interposed between the first and second rigid portions, wherein the first and second rigid portions comprise first and second respective transparent dielectric layers, wherein the flexible portion comprises a layer of elastomer that is interposed between the first and second transparent dielectric layers, and wherein the display cover layer includes a self-healing polymer layer that is formed over the layer of elastomer and the first and second transparent dielectric layers.