Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Elastomeric pressure transduction based user interface
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Application No.: US16131996Application Date: 2018-09-14
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Publication No.: US10659866B2Publication Date: 2020-05-19
- Inventor: John Stephen Smith , Storrs T. Hoen
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Brownstein Hyatt Darber Schreck, LLP
- Main IPC: H04R1/10
- IPC: H04R1/10 ; G01L9/04 ; G01L1/02 ; H04R9/06 ; G01L9/12 ; G01L9/06 ; G01L9/08

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are electronic devices having a deformable surfaces through which a user can provide inputs to the device by applying a force such as a pinch or a squeeze. A particular embodiment is an earpiece with the deformable surface part of an elongate section extending from an earbud. The deformable surface includes an incompressible hyperelastic material and a pressure sensor. The pressure sensor includes a pressure sensing element and a void defined between the pressure sensing element and the incompressible hyperelastic material. An applied force is transferred by the incompressible hyperelastic material to compress the void and change an internal pressure thereof. The changed pressure is detected by the pressure sensor, and can result in changed operation of the electronic device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200092629A1 Elastomeric Pressure Transduction Based User Interface Public/Granted day:2020-03-19
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