Invention Application
- Patent Title: Electronic Device with Noise-Cancelling Force Sensor
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Application No.: US15005732Application Date: 2016-01-25
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Publication No.: US20160209972A1Publication Date: 2016-07-21
- Inventor: Bingrui Yang , Martin P. Grunthaner , Steven P. Hotelling
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Main IPC: G06F3/041
- IPC: G06F3/041 ; G01L1/22

Abstract:
An electronic device may have a housing in which components such as a display are mounted. A strain gauge may be mounted on a layer of the display such as a cover layer or may be mounted on a portion of the housing or other support structure. The layer of material on which the strain gauge is mounted may be configured to flex in response to pressure applied by a finger of a user. The strain gauge may serve as a button for the electronic device or may form part of other input circuitry. A differential amplifier and analog-to-digital converter circuit may be used to gather and process strain gauge signals. The strain gauge may be formed form variable resistor structures that make up part of a bridge circuit that is coupled to the differential amplifier. The bridge circuit may be configured to reduce the impact of capacitively coupled noise.
Public/Granted literature
- US09575588B2 Electronic device with noise-cancelling force sensor Public/Granted day:2017-02-21
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