公开(公告)号：US20240094771A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-21

申请号：US18355231

申请日：2023-07-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Bryan A Cloyd ,  Mary S Poletti ,  Nicholas R Trincia ,  Benjamin A Stevenson ,  Tsung-Wen Su ,  Jack Pickup ,  Jessica Wang

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  G02B27/01

CPC classification number: G06F1/1628 ,  G02B27/0176

Abstract: A case for an electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have a main housing portion that separates an interior region from a surrounding exterior region. The main housing portion may have an opening through which the head-mounted device is received into the interior region. Flexible protruding portions of the main housing portion may form a flexible tab and a flexible flap. To make size adjustments to the interior region, the flexible tab may slide within an opening in a cover. The cover may be configured to move between an open position in which the opening is uncovered and a closed position in which the head-mounted device is enclosed within the interior region by the main housing portion and the cover. Deformable protrusions in the case may be used to seal openings in the head-mounted device when the device is in the interior region.

公开(公告)号：US12127651B1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-29

申请号：US16919000

申请日：2020-07-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Nicholas R. Trincia ,  Chihchen Sun ,  Qigen Ji ,  Yang Zhou ,  Jenna L. Withrow ,  Jack Pickup ,  Joshua A. Hoover

IPC: H01F7/00 ,  A45C11/00 ,  A45C13/10 ,  H01F7/02 ,  H04R1/10 ,  H05K5/03

CPC classification number: A45C13/1069 ,  A45C11/00 ,  H01F7/02 ,  H04R1/1091 ,  H05K5/03 ,  A45C2011/001

Abstract: Items such as enclosures may be provided with hidden magnets. An enclosure may be formed from a flexible housing layer. The flexible housing layer may be configured to open and close by folding around fold axes. Portions of the flexible layer may include a flexible base layer with openings. Flexible magnets may be embedded within the openings. The flexible magnets may be used in forming a magnetic clasp for the enclosure. The flexible magnets may each have a height and durometer value that closely matches the height and durometer value of an adjacent portion of the flexible base layer, thereby helping to hide the flexible magnets within the housing layer.

公开(公告)号：US12156572B1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-03

申请号：US17489481

申请日：2021-09-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Seul Bi Kim ,  Ayumi Kusano ,  Bryan A. Cloyd ,  Motohide Hatanaka ,  Sara Rusignuolo ,  Yang Zhou ,  Anthony M. Ashcroft ,  Jack Pickup

IPC: A44B11/06

Abstract: A strap may have a strip of material. A flexible magnet and other layers may be embedded between outer layers of the strip. The outer layers may be formed from leather or other natural materials, fabric, polymer, or other materials. The strap may have a snap mechanism that removably couples the strap to the item. The strip may have left and right portions that are coupled together using sliders and the snap mechanism. The sliders may be fixedly attached to respective end portions of left and right portions of the strip. A first of the sliders may have a slot that allows the first slider to slide along the right strip portion and a second of the sliders may have a slot that allows the second slider to slide along the left strip portion so that the length of the strap may be adjusted.

公开(公告)号：US11381892B1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-05

申请号：US16017835

申请日：2018-06-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Timothy W. Scales ,  Kodiak D. Burke ,  Linda D. Benavente-Notaro ,  Nicholas R. Trincia ,  Benjamin A. Stevenson ,  Clayton McCoy ,  Donald L. Olmstead ,  Hao Zhu ,  William H. Chui ,  Jack Pickup

IPC: H04R1/02 ,  G06F1/18

Abstract: An enclosure may be provided with a housing. The housing may have an opening that separates and joins along a seam. A magnetic closure may have a pair of mating flexible magnetic members such as flexible rings or strips that run along the seam. Magnetic-field shunts may be provided in the flexible magnetic members. Multiple magnetic elements may be formed along the length of each magnetic member to form a multipole permanent magnet. Magnetic attraction may be varied along the lengths of the magnetic members and may be varied as a function of the separation between opposing magnet members. A magnetic clasp may be provided on the housing. The magnetic clasp may have attracting magnets to help close the opening in the housing. Protruding clasp portions may be formed from flexible material and may have embedded magnets configured to repel each other to facilitate use of the clasp.