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公开(公告)号：US20240237788A1
公开(公告)日：2024-07-18
申请号：US18622396
申请日：2024-03-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Zaki MOUSTAFA , Qigen JI , Caitlin M. MCLAIN , Clayton J. MCCOY , Hao ZHU , Hsiang Hung CHEN , Stephen E. DEY , Fernando F. CUNHA
CPC classification number: A44C5/0007 , A41D20/00 , A44D2203/00
Abstract: A wristband can comfortably secure an electronic device, such as a wristwatch or fitness/health tracking device, to a wrist of a user. The wristband can include a number of magnets that allow the wristband to be magnetically coupled to itself when folded over or when separate band portions are overlapping. The magnets can include a polymer mixed with a magnetic material to provide magnetic properties and flexibility. The magnets can be joined together by a continuous support structure that extends through opposing pairs of the magnets. The support structure can provide substantial and ability as well as tensile strength. The magnets and the support structure can be surrounded by a flexible cover to protect the components within.
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公开(公告)号：US20190053610A1
公开(公告)日：2019-02-21
申请号：US16166005
申请日：2018-10-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Richard D. KOSOGLOW , Hao ZHU , James A. STRYKER
CPC classification number: A45F5/00 , A44C5/2071 , A44D2203/00 , A45F2005/008 , A45F2200/0508
Abstract: A wearable band may include a first strap portion including a loop, and a second strap portion positionable through the loop of the first strap portion. The second strap portion may include a multi-pole magnet assembly, the multi-pole magnet assembly including two or more magnets arranged in a multi-pole magnet structure and at least one discrete shunt positioned over a surface of the multi-pole magnet structure.
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公开(公告)号：US20230078725A1
公开(公告)日：2023-03-16
申请号：US17989566
申请日：2022-11-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Zaki MOUSTAFA , Qigen JI , Caitlin M. MCLAIN , Clayton J. MCCOY , Hao ZHU , Hsiang Hung CHEN , Stephen E. DEY , Fernando F. CUNHA
Abstract: A wristband can comfortably secure an electronic device, such as a wristwatch or fitness/health tracking device, to a wrist of a user. The wristband can include a number of magnets that allow the wristband to be magnetically coupled to itself when folded over or when separate band portions are overlapping. The magnets can include a polymer mixed with a magnetic material to provide magnetic properties and flexibility. The magnets can be joined together by a continuous support structure that extends through opposing pairs of the magnets. The support structure can provide substantial and ability as well as tensile strength. The magnets and the support structure can be surrounded by a flexible cover to protect the components within.
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公开(公告)号：US20200367613A1
公开(公告)日：2020-11-26
申请号：US16880673
申请日：2020-05-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Zaki MOUSTAFA , Qigen JI , Caitlin M. MCLAIN , Clayton J MCCOY , Hao ZHU , Hsiang Hung CHEN , Stephen E. DEY , Fernando F. CUNHA
Abstract: A wristband can comfortably secure an electronic device, such as a wristwatch or fitness/health tracking device, to a wrist of a user. The wristband can include a number of magnets that allow the wristband to be magnetically coupled to itself when folded over or when separate band portions are overlapping. The magnets can include a polymer mixed with a magnetic material to provide magnetic properties and flexibility. The magnets can be joined together by a continuous support structure that extends through opposing pairs of the magnets. The support structure can provide substantial and ability as well as tensile strength. The magnets and the support structure can be surrounded by a flexible cover to protect the components within.
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公开(公告)号：US20180335801A1
公开(公告)日：2018-11-22
申请号：US15600128
申请日：2017-05-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Timothy W. SCALES , Charles W. WERLEY , Hao ZHU
CPC classification number: G06F1/1626 , G01R33/0052 , G01R33/07 , G06F1/1656 , H01F7/0252 , H01F7/0278
Abstract: An electronic device can include an actuator unit with a button, where the actuator unit requires application of at least a threshold actuation force to an accessible surface of the button. The electronic device may also include a tactile compensation unit that is in physical communication with the actuator unit. The tactile compensation unit is rendered operable when a triggering magnetic element forms a magnetic circuit with the triggering unit, such that the tactile compensation unit operates to maintain the activation of the actuator unit using no more than the threshold actuation force.
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公开(公告)号：US20200089276A1
公开(公告)日：2020-03-19
申请号：US16415649
申请日：2019-05-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Hao ZHU , Yang ZHOU , Thomas R. MATZINGER , Guangtao ZHANG , Ming YU , Jaime G. CHAVEZ RUIZ GARZA , Florence W. OW , James A. STRYKER , Travis C. PEDLEY , Melody L. KUNA , Taylor Harrison GILBERT
Abstract: Electronic devices and accessory devices for electronic devices are described. In some instances, an accessory device includes a keyboard and a cover rotatable with respect to the keyboard. In some instances, an accessory device includes a back panel and a foldable cover rotatable with respect to the back panel. These accessory devices may include several magnetic elements designed to magnetically couple with, and retain, an electronic device without any additional mechanical or other interlocking devices. In this regard, the magnetic elements in the accessory devices provide an external magnetic field sufficiently strong enough to retain the electronic device, and can counter gravitational forces and/or the weight of the electronic device. However, some accessory devices include additional magnetic elements that provide an external magnetic field that repels magnetic elements in the electronic device. Also, the magnetic elements may also be used to hold different sections of the accessory device together.
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公开(公告)号：US20200081489A1
公开(公告)日：2020-03-12
申请号：US16277999
申请日：2019-02-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： James A. STRYKER , Caitlin M. MCLAIN , Travis C. PEDLEY , Nicholas A. TREADWELL , Hao ZHU , Yang ZHOU
Abstract: An accessory device for a portable electronic device is described. The accessory device includes a front cover connected to a back cover. The front cover includes multiple segments rotatable with respect to each other. The segments include magnets that allow the segments, through magnetic coupling, to couple with another segment or with the portable electronic device. When the front cover engages the back cover, a user may remove, or pull away, a segment from the back cover, causing the remaining segments to sequentially fall away from the back cover. In some instances, when the front cover at least partially engages the back cover, one of the segments includes magnets designed to couple with magnets in the back cover, but not with magnets in another segment. The accessory device may further include an opening that receives a camera assembly of the portable electronic device and forms a mechanical interlock.
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公开(公告)号：US20170070001A1
公开(公告)日：2017-03-09
申请号：US15256156
申请日：2016-09-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Brett W. DEGNER , David H. NARAJOWSKI , Oliver C. ROSS , Hao ZHU , Erik A. UTTERMANN , Stephen R. MCCLURE , Melody L. KUNA
IPC: H01R13/62
CPC classification number: H01R13/6205 , H01R13/6315
Abstract: An accessory to device coupling system can include a first magnet array adapted for assembly with respect to a surface of an electronic device and a second magnet array adapted for assembly with respect to a surface of an accessory device, the accessory device configured to interact electrically with the electronic device. The first magnet array can include a first plurality of magnets arranged in a first pattern of alternating polarities, and the second magnet array can include a second plurality of magnets arranged in a second pattern of alternating polarities that corresponds to the first pattern of alternating polarities. The corresponding alternating polarity patterns can cause the second magnet array to couple to the first magnet array with a normalized attraction force only at an intended orientation and alignment, and with less than half of the normalized attraction force at any other orientation and alignment.
Abstract translation: 设备耦合系统的附件可以包括适于相对于电子设备的表面组装的第一磁体阵列和适于相对于附件设备的表面组装的第二磁体阵列，所述辅助设备被配置为与 电子设备。 第一磁体阵列可以包括以交替极性的第一图案布置的第一多个磁体，并且第二磁体阵列可以包括以对应于交替极性的第一图案的交替极性的第二图案布置的第二多个磁体。 相应的交替极性图案可以使得第二磁体阵列仅在预期的取向和对准下以归一化的吸引力耦合到第一磁体阵列，并且在任何其它取向和对准下具有少于归一化吸引力的一半。
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公开(公告)号：US20210267325A1
公开(公告)日：2021-09-02
申请号：US17322661
申请日：2021-05-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Zaki MOUSTAFA , Hsiang CHEN , Stephen E. DEY , Qigen JI , Hao ZHU
Abstract: A wristband can comfortably secure an electronic device, such as a wristwatch or fitness/health tracking device, to a wrist of a user. The wristband can include a number of magnets that allow the wristband to be magnetically coupled to itself when folded over or when separate band portions are overlapping. The magnets can include a polymer mixed with a magnetic material to provide magnetic properties and flexibility. The magnets can be joined together by a continuous support structure that extends through opposing pairs of the magnets. The support structure can provide substantial and ability as well as tensile strength. The magnets and the support structure can be surrounded by a flexible cover to protect the components within.
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公开(公告)号：US20200241598A1
公开(公告)日：2020-07-30
申请号：US16848335
申请日：2020-04-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Hao ZHU , Yang ZHOU , Thomas R. MATZINGER , Guangtao ZHANG , Ming YU , Jaime G. CHAVEZ RUIZ GARZA , Florence W. OW , James A. STRYKER , Travis C. PEDLEY , Melody L. KUNA , Taylor Harrison GILBERT
Abstract: Electronic devices and accessory devices for electronic devices are described. In some instances, an accessory device includes a keyboard and a cover rotatable with respect to the keyboard. In some instances, an accessory device includes a back panel and a foldable cover rotatable with respect to the back panel. These accessory devices may include several magnetic elements designed to magnetically couple with, and retain, an electronic device without any additional mechanical or other interlocking devices. In this regard, the magnetic elements in the accessory devices provide an external magnetic field sufficiently strong enough to retain the electronic device, and can counter gravitational forces and/or the weight of the electronic device. However, some accessory devices include additional magnetic elements that provide an external magnetic field that repels magnetic elements in the electronic device. Also, the magnetic elements may also be used to hold different sections of the accessory device together.
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