公开(公告)号：US20200044305A1

公开(公告)日：2020-02-06

申请号：US16596593

申请日：2019-10-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Miroslav Samardzija ,  Yiren Wang ,  Yuehui Ouyang ,  Joseph Hakim ,  Qingxiang Li ,  Robert W. Schlub ,  Ruben Caballero ,  Siwen Yong ,  Erik G. de Jong

IPC: H01Q1/22 ,  G04R60/10 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H01L27/32 ,  H01Q1/27 ,  H01Q1/52 ,  H01Q7/00 ,  H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q21/28 ,  H04B5/00 ,  H04B5/02 ,  H05K1/02 ,  H05K5/00 ,  H05K5/03 ,  G04G21/04

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. A display cover layer and a transparent inner display member may overlap a display pixel layer. The display pixel layer may have an array of display pixels for displaying images for a user. A touch sensor layer may be interposed between the display pixel layer and the transparent display member. A ferromagnetic shielding layer may be mounted below the display pixel layer. A flexible printed circuit containing coils of metal signal lines that form a near-field communications loop antenna may be interposed between the ferromagnetic shielding layer and the display pixel layer. A non-near-field antenna such as an inverted-F antenna may have a resonating element mounted on an inner surface of the display cover layer. The resonating element may be interposed between the transparent display member and the display cover layer.

公开(公告)号：US10461395B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-29

申请号：US15625903

申请日：2017-06-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Miroslav Samardzija ,  Yiren Wang ,  Yuehui Ouyang ,  Joseph Hakim ,  Qingxiang Li ,  Robert W. Schlub ,  Ruben Caballero ,  Siwen Yong ,  Erik G. de Jong

IPC: H01Q1/22 ,  G04R60/10 ,  G04G21/04 ,  H01Q1/27 ,  H01Q7/00 ,  H04B5/00 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H01L27/32 ,  H04B5/02 ,  H01Q1/52 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q21/28 ,  H05K1/02 ,  H05K5/00 ,  H05K5/03 ,  H01Q9/04

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. A display cover layer and a transparent inner display member may overlap a display pixel layer. The display pixel layer may have an array of display pixels for displaying images for a user. A touch sensor layer may be interposed between the display pixel layer and the transparent display member. A ferromagnetic shielding layer may be mounted below the display pixel layer. A flexible printed circuit containing coils of metal signal lines that form a near-field communications loop antenna may be interposed between the ferromagnetic shielding layer and the display pixel layer. A non-near-field antenna such as an inverted-F antenna may have a resonating element mounted on an inner surface of the display cover layer. The resonating element may be interposed between the transparent display member and the display cover layer.

公开(公告)号：US10386970B2

公开(公告)日：2019-08-20

申请号：US14766639

申请日：2014-02-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jonah A. Harley ,  Peter W. Richards ,  Brian Q. Huppi ,  Omar Sze Leung ,  Dhaval N. Shah ,  Martin P. Grunthaner ,  Steven P. Hotelling ,  Miguel C Christophy ,  Vivek Katiyar ,  Tang Yew Tan ,  Christopher J. Butler ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  Ming Sartee ,  Rui Qiao ,  Steven J. Martisauskas ,  Storrs T. Hoen ,  Richard Hung Minh Dinh ,  Lee E. Hooton ,  Ian A. Spraggs ,  Sawyer I. Cohen ,  David A. Pakula

IPC: G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/041

Abstract: A device configured to determine the location and magnitude of a touch on a surface of the device. The device includes a transparent touch sensor that is configured to detect a location of a touch on the transparent touch sensor. The device also includes a force-sensing structure disposed at the periphery of the transparent touch sensor. The force sensor includes an upper capacitive plate and a compressible element disposed on one side of the upper capacitive plate. The force sensor also includes a lower capacitive plate disposed on a side of the compressible element that is opposite the upper capacitive plate.

公开(公告)号：US20190223803A1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-25

申请号：US16370031

申请日：2019-03-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tyler S. Bushnell ,  Steven J. Martisauskas ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  Andrzej T. Baranski ,  Serhan O. Isikman ,  Steven J. Banaska ,  Todd K. Whitehurst ,  Ming L. Sartee

IPC: A61B5/00 ,  G01L1/14

Abstract: A wearable electronic device includes a body, a housing component, a band operable to attach the body to a body part of a user, and a force sensor coupled to the housing component. The force sensor is operable to produce a force signal based on a force exerted between the body part of the user and the housing component. A processing unit of the wearable electronic device receives the force signal from the force sensor and determines the force exerted on the housing component based thereon. The processing unit may use that force to determine a tightness of the band, determine health information for the user, adjust determined force exerted on a cover glass, and/or to perform various other actions.

公开(公告)号：US20190074729A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-07

申请号：US16122766

申请日：2018-09-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Michael B. Wittenberg ,  Makiko K. Brzezinski ,  Stefan A. Kowalski ,  Christopher S. Graham ,  Morgan T. McClure ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  Trevor J. Ness ,  Peter J. Kardassakis ,  Jayesh Nath ,  Adam T. Clavelle ,  Rex Tyler Ehman

IPC: H02J50/40 ,  H02J50/10 ,  H02J50/80 ,  H02J50/90 ,  H02J7/02

CPC classification number: H02J50/40 ,  A61B5/024 ,  A61B5/6898 ,  A61B2560/0214 ,  H02J7/025 ,  H02J50/10 ,  H02J50/80 ,  H02J50/90

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein describe a wireless power receiving system for an electronic device includes: a first inductor coil configured to receive power primarily at a first frequency and from magnetic fields propagating in a first direction; and a second inductor coil configured to receive power primarily at a second frequency and from magnetic fields propagating in a second direction, wherein the first frequency is different than the second frequency.

公开(公告)号：US20190074719A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-07

申请号：US16122811

申请日：2018-09-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Michael B. Wittenberg ,  Makiko K. Brzezinski ,  Stefan A. Kowalski ,  Christopher S. Graham ,  Morgan T. McClure ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  Trevor J. Ness ,  Peter J. Kardassakis ,  Jayesh Nath ,  Adam T. Clavelle ,  Rex Tyler Ehman

IPC: H02J50/10 ,  H02J50/40 ,  H02J50/70 ,  H01Q7/06

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein describe a wireless power receiving system for an electronic device includes: a first inductor coil configured to receive power primarily at a first frequency and from magnetic fields propagating in a first direction; and a second inductor coil configured to receive power primarily at a second frequency and from magnetic fields propagating in a second direction, wherein the first frequency is different than the second frequency.

公开(公告)号：US10181640B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-15

申请号：US15234907

申请日：2016-08-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Rex T. Ehman ,  Jayesh Nath ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  James G. Horiuchi ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  Jason C. Sauers ,  Makiko K. Brzezinski ,  Siwen Yong ,  Lijun Zhang ,  Yi Jiang ,  Zheyu Wang ,  Mario Martinis ,  Eduardo Da Costa Bras Lima ,  Xu Han ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Trevor J. Ness

IPC: H01Q1/12 ,  H01Q1/27 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H04B5/00 ,  H01Q7/00 ,  H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q9/14

Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal portions such as metal sidewalls. The housing may form an antenna ground for an antenna. An antenna resonating element for the antenna may be formed from a stack of capacitively coupled component layers such as a display layer, touch sensor layer, and near-field communications antenna layer at a front face of the device. An additional antenna may be formed from a peripheral resonating element that runs along a peripheral edge of the device and the antenna ground. A rear face antenna may be formed using a wireless power receiving coil as a radio-frequency antenna resonating element or may be formed from metal antenna traces on a plastic support for light-based components.

公开(公告)号：US20180376039A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-27

申请号：US16118276

申请日：2018-08-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Emery A. Sanford ,  David G. Havskjold ,  Teodor Dabov ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  Tyson B. Manullang ,  Anthony S. Montevirgen

IPC: H04N5/225

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing such as a metal housing. Openings may be formed in the housing to accommodate a button, to form a camera window, to form a microphone port, and to form a camera flash window. An input-output component mounting member may be used to mount input-output components to the housing of the electronic device. The input-output component mounting member may have a recess that mates with a corresponding protrusion on the housing. Screws may attach the input-output component mounting member to the housing. The protrusion and recess in the input-output component mounting member may ensure that the input-output component mounting member is accurately aligned with respect to the housing. Input-output components such as a microphone, button switch, camera, and camera flash may be mounted to the electronic device with the input-output component mounting member.

公开(公告)号：US20180307363A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-25

申请号：US16022563

申请日：2018-06-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Colin M. Ely ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  Fletcher R. Rothkopf

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G01D5/241 ,  H03K17/975 ,  G04G21/00 ,  G06F3/0362 ,  G06F3/0346 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G04C3/00

CPC classification number: G06F3/0414 ,  G01D5/2412 ,  G04C3/007 ,  G04G21/00 ,  G06F3/0346 ,  G06F3/0362 ,  G06F3/044 ,  H03K17/975 ,  H03K2217/960755

Abstract: An input mechanism, such as a crown, detects amounts of applied force. In various examples, an assembly including an input mechanism has an enclosure; a stem coupled to the enclosure such that the stem is rotatable, translatable, and transversely moveable with respect to the enclosure; a sensor, coupled between the stem and the housing, to which force is transferred when the stem moves with respect to the housing; and a processing unit coupled to the sensor. The processing unit is operable to determine a measurement of the force, based on a signal from the sensor.

公开(公告)号：US10031268B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-24

申请号：US15657011

申请日：2017-07-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Erik G. de Jong ,  Jean-Pierre S. Guillou

IPC: G02B5/22 ,  G02B5/30

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may have an active area that contains pixels and an inactive area. The inactive area of the display may be provided with opaque masking layer structures having an appearance that matches the active area of the display when the pixels are off and are not displaying images. The opaque masking layer structures may include a polymer layer coated with a layer of metal. The display may have pixels with anodes and a cathode layer. The anodes may be formed from metal pads. Dummy structures such as a dummy cathode and dummy anodes may be formed in the inactive area. A circular polarizer in the display may overlap the active area and the inactive area or may overlap the active area without overlapping some or all of the inactive area.