US 12,429,907 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)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 8, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/628,979.
Application 18/628,979 is a division of application No. 18/194,530, filed on Mar. 31, 2023, granted, now 11,991,901.
Application 18/194,530 is a division of application No. 17/879,705, filed on Aug. 2, 2022, granted, now 11,647,648, issued on May 9, 2023.
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 2024/0260308 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G09F 9/30 (2006.01); G09F 9/33 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01); H10K 59/80 (2023.01); H10K 102/00 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 1/1626 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); G09F 9/301 (2013.01); G09F 9/335 (2021.05); H04M 1/0268 (2013.01); H10K 59/87 (2023.02); H10K 59/8794 (2023.02); H10K 2102/311 (2023.02)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a housing; and
a flexible display in the housing having a bending region that bends about a bend axis, wherein the flexible display includes display layers configured to emit light and a display cover layer, wherein the display cover layer covers the display layers, and wherein the display cover layer comprises:
a first transparent dielectric layer having a plurality of slits in the bending region; and
a second transparent dielectric layer that covers the first transparent dielectric layer, wherein the first transparent dielectric layer and the second transparent dielectric layer are attached by a plurality of welds.