Apple Granted Liquid Metal Related Patent for Embossed Apple Logo on Products

[Jacob Black]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 55 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this particular report we cover Apple's granted patent relating to bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys which is also known for marketing purposes, liquid metal. One tiny aspect of this patent covers how liquid metal can be applied to Apple Products to set their embossed logo as noted in our cover graphic.

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Apple's patent FIG. 19(a) noted above (labeled as "Pressing text+logos") shows the process of forming a logo or text on a metallic glass workpiece using a positive mold of a tool or punch and performing a rapid discharge forming on the workpiece by locally heating up the surface in the vicinity of the electrode or heating the whole part and then pressing the shaped electrodes on the heated surface so as to leave an imprint on the surface of the metallic glass workpiece as shown in FIG. 19(b) having a label stating "Imprinted logo."

Apple's granted patent 9,539,628 covers a lot of ground including amorphous alloys; ohmic heating technology; injection molding apparatuses, molding and thermoforming bulk solidifying alloy glasses; heat staking; forging text and logos and imparting surface textures and more.