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公开(公告)号:US10367300B2
公开(公告)日:2019-07-30
申请号:US15108777
申请日:2013-12-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky , Erik G. de Jong , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Samuel Weiss
IPC: H01R13/627 , G06F1/16
Abstract: An electronic device and an attachment element that includes one or more electronic components each include connection mechanisms. The connection mechanisms of the electronic device and the attachment element may be engaged to mechanically and electrically connect the electronic device and the attachment element. Such electrical connection may electrically couple the one or more electrical components of the attachment element to the electronic device. The connection mechanisms may utilize one or more of a variety of different mechanical connection mechanism such as one or more snap mechanisms, twist mechanisms, threaded mechanisms, detent mechanisms, spring mechanisms, slide mechanisms, magnetic mechanisms, and/or any other mechanism for mechanical and electrical attachment.
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公开(公告)号:US10222909B2
公开(公告)日:2019-03-05
申请号:US16048081
申请日:2018-07-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky , Christopher M. Werner , Colin M. Ely , Samuel Weiss
IPC: G06F1/16 , G06F3/041 , G06F3/042 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/0362
Abstract: Various embodiments for detecting and rejecting false, unintended rotations of rotary inputs of electronic devices are disclosed herein. In one example, an electronic device is provided with an optical detector that measures the distance between the electronic device and the wearer's forearm or hand, and when the distance is smaller than a threshold distance, the turns of the rotary input are false, unintended turns. In another example, a crown of a rotary input includes a plurality of capacitive sensors that detects the presence of a wearer's finger, which when absent, the turns of the rotary input are false turns. In another example, deflections or positions of a shaft of the rotary input are measured and if the deflections/positions indicate an upward force on the rotary input (which are likely caused by the wearer's forearm or hand), the turns of the rotary input are false turns. Other embodiments are described herein.
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公开(公告)号:US10191528B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-29
申请号:US15217921
申请日:2016-07-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky
Abstract: A device having one or more sensors configured to detect a material covering the device, and logic configured to detect one or more characteristics of the material and change an operating state of the device based on the detected one or more characteristics. In some examples, the one or more sensors can be ambient light sensors (ALS), proximity sensors and/or cameras. In some examples, the device can change the operating state of a processor, a touch panel and/or a display. In some examples, the device can detect a direction of coverage of the material, a color of the material and/or a usage state of the device. In some examples, the device can change its operating state based on a pattern of the one or more characteristics and/or information in addition to the one or more characteristics. In some examples, the device can receive the information from an external device.
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公开(公告)号:US09769920B2
公开(公告)日:2017-09-19
申请号:US14226593
申请日:2014-03-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Colin M. Ely , Anna-Katrina Shedletsky , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Stephen Brian Lynch
CPC classification number: H05K1/0281 , H05K1/028 , H05K1/0284 , H05K1/0326 , H05K1/0346 , H05K1/115 , H05K3/0061 , H05K3/28 , H05K2201/0129 , H05K2201/0154 , H05K2201/0187 , H05K2201/0305 , H05K2201/055 , H05K2201/057 , H05K2201/09109 , H05K2201/09872 , H05K2201/0999 , H05K2201/10128 , H05K2201/10409 , H05K2201/2009 , H05K2203/0126 , H05K2203/013 , H05K2203/1194 , H05K2203/1327 , H05K2203/1366
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with printed circuits. Electrical components may be interconnected using signal paths formed from metal traces in the printed circuits. The printed circuits may include flexible printed circuits with bent configurations. The flexible printed circuits may be provided with integral bend retention structures. A bend retention structure may be formed from a polymer layer, a solder layer, a stiffener formed from metal or polymer that is attached to flexible printed circuit layers with adhesive, a conformal plastic coating that covers exposed metal traces at a bend, a metal stiffener with screw holes, a shape memory alloy, a portion of a flexible printed circuit dielectric substrate layer with a reduced elongation at yield value, or combinations of these structures. The bend retention structure maintains a bend in a bent flexible printed circuit.
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公开(公告)号:US09525222B2
公开(公告)日:2016-12-20
申请号:US14250811
申请日:2014-04-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky , Nathan Guide
IPC: H01R13/648 , H01R12/61 , H05K3/28 , H05K3/36
CPC classification number: H01R12/613 , H05K3/284 , H05K3/361 , H05K3/363 , H05K2201/09754 , H05K2201/10424 , H05K2203/025
Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for creating a connection mechanism for a circuit board. The method includes securing a plurality of electrical conductors to a sleeve. Once the electrical conductors have been coupled to the sleeve, the sleeve and the plurality of conductors are coupled to, and molded with, the circuit board. At least one side of the circuit board, such as, for example, the molding over the plurality of electrical conductors, is subsequently reduced to expose at least a portion of at least one of the plurality of electrical conductors. An electrical connector is then coupled to the at least the portion of the one or more of the plurality of electrical conductors that was exposed when the first side of the printed circuit board was reduced.
Abstract translation: 本公开的实施例提供了一种用于创建电路板的连接机构的方法。 该方法包括将多个电导体固定到套筒上。 一旦电导体已经耦合到套筒,套管和多个导体被耦合到电路板并且与其成型。 电路板的至少一侧,例如多个电导体上的模制件,随后被减少以露出多个电导体中的至少一个电导体的至少一部分。 然后,电连接器被耦合到当印刷电路板的第一面减小时暴露的多个电导体中的一个或多个的至少一部分。
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公开(公告)号:USD762565S1
公开(公告)日:2016-08-02
申请号:US29500628
申请日:2014-08-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Designer: Jody Akana , Tyler Scott Bushnell , Julian Hoenig , Anna-Katrina Shedletsky , Rico Zörkendörfer
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公开(公告)号:US20160218156A1
公开(公告)日:2016-07-28
申请号:US15087835
申请日:2016-03-31
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky , Paul S. Drzaic , Erik G. de Jong , Fletcher R. Rothkopf
CPC classification number: H01L51/5284 , G02F1/13318 , G02F2001/13312 , G06F1/1637 , H01L27/3227 , H01L27/3269 , H01L51/5012 , H01L51/5218 , H01L51/5234 , H01L51/5253 , H01L51/5271 , H01L51/5281 , H01L2251/5315
Abstract: An electronic device is provided with a display and a light sensor that receives light that passes through the display. The display includes features that increase the amount of light that passes through the display. The features may be translucency enhancement features that allow light to pass directly through the display onto a light sensor mounted behind the display or may include a light-guiding layer that guides light through the display onto a light sensor mounted along an edge of the display. The translucency enhancement features may be formed in a reflector layer or an electrode layer for the display. The translucency enhancement features may include microperforations in a reflector layer of the display, a light-filtering reflector layer of the display, or a reflector layer of the display that passes a portion of the light and reflects an additional portion of the light.
Abstract translation: 电子设备设置有显示器和光传感器,其接收穿过显示器的光。 该显示器包括增加通过显示器的光量的特征。 特征可以是透光增强特征,其允许光直接通过显示器到安装在显示器后面的光传感器上,或者可以包括导光层,其将光通过显示器引导到沿着显示器的边缘安装的光传感器。 半透明增强特征可以形成在用于显示器的反射器层或电极层中。 半透明增强特征可以包括显示器的反射器层中的微穿孔,显示器的光滤波反射器层,或显示器的反射器层,其通过光的一部分并反射光的附加部分。
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公开(公告)号:US09310843B2
公开(公告)日:2016-04-12
申请号:US13732966
申请日:2013-01-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky , Paul S. Drzaic , Erik G. de Long , Fletcher R. Rothkopf
IPC: H01L31/0232 , G06F1/16
CPC classification number: H01L51/5284 , G02F1/13318 , G02F2001/13312 , G06F1/1637 , H01L27/3227 , H01L27/3269 , H01L51/5012 , H01L51/5218 , H01L51/5234 , H01L51/5253 , H01L51/5271 , H01L51/5281 , H01L2251/5315
Abstract: An electronic device is provided with a display and a light sensor that receives light that passes through the display. The display includes features that increase the amount of light that passes through the display. The features may be translucency enhancement features that allow light to pass directly through the display onto a light sensor mounted behind the display or may include a light-guiding layer that guides light through the display onto a light sensor mounted along an edge of the display. The translucency enhancement features may be formed in a reflector layer or an electrode layer for the display. The translucency enhancement features may include microperforations in a reflector layer of the display, a light-filtering reflector layer of the display, or a reflector layer of the display that passes a portion of the light and reflects an additional portion of the light.
Abstract translation: 电子设备设置有显示器和光传感器,其接收穿过显示器的光。 该显示器包括增加通过显示器的光量的特征。 特征可以是透光增强特征,其允许光直接通过显示器到安装在显示器后面的光传感器上,或者可以包括导光层,其将光通过显示器引导到沿着显示器的边缘安装的光传感器。 半透明增强特征可以形成在用于显示器的反射器层或电极层中。 半透明增强特征可以包括显示器的反射器层中的微穿孔,显示器的光滤波反射器层,或显示器的反射器层,其通过光的一部分并反射光的附加部分。
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公开(公告)号:USD752044S1
公开(公告)日:2016-03-22
申请号:US29499089
申请日:2014-08-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Designer: Jody Akana , Bartley K. Andre , Shota Aoyagi , Anthony Michael Ashcroft , Jeremy Bataillou , Brad G. Boozer , Makiko Kawamura Brzezinski , Tyler Scott Bushnell , Daniel J. Coster , Daniele De Iuliis , Colin Ely , M. Evans Hankey , Phillip M. Hobson , Julian Hoenig , Richard P. Howarth , Jonathan P. Ive , Eric Steven Jol , Benjamin Jordan Kallman , Duncan Robert Kerr , David Nazzaro , Trevor Jordan Ness , Marc A. Newson , David Pelletier , Matthew Dean Rohrbach , Fletcher Rothkopf , Peter Russell-Clarke , Jason Christopher Sauers , Benjamin Andrew Shaffer , Anna-Katrina Shedletsky , Mikael Silvanto , Christopher J. Stringer , Samuel Bruce Weiss , Christopher M. Werner , Eugene Antony Whang , Michael Benjamin Wittenberg , Stephen Paul Zadesky , Rico Zörkendörfer
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公开(公告)号:US20150295332A1
公开(公告)日:2015-10-15
申请号:US14250811
申请日:2014-04-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky , Nathan Guide
CPC classification number: H01R12/613 , H05K3/284 , H05K3/361 , H05K3/363 , H05K2201/09754 , H05K2201/10424 , H05K2203/025
Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for creating a connection mechanism for a circuit board. The method includes securing a plurality of electrical conductors to a sleeve. Once the electrical conductors have been coupled to the sleeve, the sleeve and the plurality of conductors are coupled to, and molded with, the circuit board. At least one side of the circuit board, such as, for example, the molding over the plurality of electrical conductors, is subsequently reduced to expose at least a portion of at least one of the plurality of electrical conductors. An electrical connector is then coupled to the at least the portion of the one or more of the plurality of electrical conductors that was exposed when the first side of the printed circuit board was reduced.
Abstract translation: 本公开的实施例提供了一种用于创建电路板的连接机构的方法。 该方法包括将多个电导体固定到套筒上。 一旦电导体已经耦合到套筒,套管和多个导体被耦合到电路板并且与其成型。 电路板的至少一侧,例如多个电导体上的模制件,随后被减少以露出多个电导体中的至少一个电导体的至少一部分。 然后,电连接器被耦合到当印刷电路板的第一面减小时暴露的多个电导体中的一个或多个的至少一部分。
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