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Flexible electronic devices

A technology of electronic equipment and flexible batteries, which can be applied to sub-office equipment, batteries, circuits, etc., and can solve the problems of rigid electronic equipment being easily damaged

Active Publication Date: 2014-05-28
APPLE INC
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[0005] Rigid electronics are susceptible to damage in the event of an impact, such as dropping the device on a hard surface

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[0042] Flexible electronic devices may have flexible internal and external components that allow the device to be flexible. Flexible internal components may include flexible displays, flexible batteries, flexible circuit boards, or other flexible electronic or support components.

[0043] Flexible exterior components may include flexible display covers, flexible housings, or other flexible exterior components. The flexible inner and outer components may have relatively more flexible regions and relatively less flexible regions. A flexible device may have a relatively more flexible portion and a relatively less flexible portion. A flexible device may be relatively more flexible in one dimension than in another.

[0044] Flexible displays can be formed from flexible layers, such as flexible display layers (e.g., flexible OLED arrays), flexible touch-sensitive layers (e.g., polymer sheets with transparent capacitor electrode arrays for capacitive touch sensors), flexible substr...

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Flexible electronic devices may be provided. A flexible electronic device may include a flexible display, a flexible housing and one or more flexible internal components configured to allow the flexible electronic device to be deformed. Flexible displays may include flexible display layers, flexible touch-sensitive layers, and flexible display cover layers. The flexible housing may be a multi-stable flexible housing having one or more stable positions. The flexible housing may include a configurable support structure that, when engaged, provides a rigid support structure for the flexible housing. The flexible internal components may include flexible batteries, flexible printed circuits or other flexible components. A flexible battery may include flexible and rigid portions or may include a lubricious separator layer that provides flexibility for the flexible battery. A flexible printed circuit may include flexible and rigid portions or openings that allow some rigid portions to flex with respect to other rigid portions.

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[0001] This application claims priority to US Patent Application No. 13 / 250,227, filed September 30, 2011, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. Background technique [0002] The present invention relates generally to electronic devices, and more particularly to flexible electronic devices. [0003] Electronic devices such as laptop computers and mobile phones often have rigid components. Rigid components typically include rigid housing structures, rigid displays such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs), rigid display covers formed of plastic or glass, rigid internal components such as rigid printed circuit boards, batteries, other electronic components, or other rigid structures components. Electronic devices are often designed with rigid external structures. [0004] There are flexible display technologies available that allow the display to flex. For example, flexible displays can be formed using flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) display tec...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F1/16H01M2/10H04M1/02H01M50/105H01M50/213H01M50/216H01M50/293H01M50/409H01M50/469H10K99/00
CPCH04M1/0216H04M1/0268G06F1/1626G06F2203/04102H04M1/0262H01M2/1022G06F1/1652H01M10/0436H01M2220/30G06F1/1677G06F1/3265G09G3/20Y02E10/549Y02D10/00Y02E60/10H01M50/409G09G3/035Y02P70/50H01M50/293H01M50/105H01M50/213H01M50/216H01M50/469H10K59/40H10K77/111H10K2102/311G09G3/2092H01M50/463H01M50/411G06F3/0416G06F3/044G09G2330/027G06F3/0412G06F2203/04103G09G3/3208G06F1/163G06F2203/04101G06F2203/04105
Inventor J·C·弗兰克林S·A·梅尔斯B·M·拉波波特S·B·林奇J·P·特纳斯J·R·沃德里奇
Owner APPLE INC
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