Systems and methods for overmolding on electronic device surfaces
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsZhicong Yao, Kenneth Charles Boman
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Abstract
An electronic device includes a display with a glass planar portion and a second material position at an outer edge of the glass planar portion. The glass planar portion defines a majority of a display surface of the display, and the second material is molded to the outer edge of the glass planar portion and defines at least part of a border portion. The second material is curved in a direction perpendicular to the display surface. The second material is composed of a first plurality of segments and a second plurality of segments. Each segment of the second plurality of segments is interposed between adjacent segments of the first plurality of segments, and the first plurality of segments interlock with the second plurality of segments.
Claims20
An electronic device comprising:
- a display including a glass planar portion including a first material, and a border portion comprised of at least two moldable materials positioned at an outer edge of the glass planar portion, wherein:
- the glass planar portion defines a majority of a display surface, and
- the border portion has been molded to the outer edge of the glass planar portion and at least part of the border portion being curved in a direction perpendicular to the display surface,
- wherein the border portion is composed of a first plurality of segments each of a second material different from the first material and a second plurality of segments each of a third material different from the first and second materials, and wherein each segment of the second plurality of segments is interposed between adjacent segments of the first plurality of segments, and wherein the first plurality of segments interlock with the second plurality of segments.
An electronic device body panel comprising:
- a planar body panel portion including a first material, wherein the planar body panel portion has an outer edge, and
- a segmented border portion including a second material different from the first material and molded to the planar body panel portion along at least part of the outer edge of the planar body panel portion, wherein the segmented border portion includes:
- a first plurality of segments directly connected to the outer edge, and
- a second plurality of segments directly connected to the outer edge,
- wherein:
- each segment of the second plurality of segments is interposed between segments of said first plurality of segments connected to the outer edge;
- each segment of the second plurality of segments meets an adjacent segment of the first plurality of segments at a corresponding seam;
- and
- at least one segment of the segmented border portion has a different composition than the other segments of the segmented border portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.