Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic device with noise-cancelling force sensor
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Application No.: US15403034Application Date: 2017-01-10
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Publication No.: US09791958B2Publication Date: 2017-10-17
- Inventor: Bingrui Yang , Martin P. Grunthaner , Steven P. Hotelling
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent G. Victor Treyz; Joseph F. Guihan
- Main IPC: G06F3/041
- IPC: G06F3/041 ; G06F3/045 ; G06F3/044 ; H04M1/725 ; H04M1/02 ; G01L1/22 ; G06F3/047

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
- US20170147147A1 Electronic Device with Noise-Cancelling Force Sensor Public/Granted day:2017-05-25
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