公开(公告)号：US20240210990A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-27

申请号：US18534452

申请日：2023-12-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Keith J. Hendren ,  Christiaan A. Ligtenberg ,  Ari P. Miller ,  Nicholas Alan Rundle ,  Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Simon J. Trivett ,  Ron A. Hopkinson ,  Michael E. Leclerc

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  G06F1/18

CPC classification number: G06F1/1616 ,  G06F1/1607 ,  G06F1/1673 ,  G06F1/1681 ,  G06F1/1686 ,  G06F1/183

Abstract: A laptop computer may include a lid portion including a housing structure, a glass cover positioned coupled to the housing structure and defining a concave region, and a display positioned below the concave region of the glass cover. The laptop computer may also include a base portion positionable in a closed configuration and an open configuration with respect to the lid portion and defining a convex region along a top side of the base portion, the convex region configured to extend into the concave region of the glass cover when the lid portion and the base portion is in the closed configuration, the base portion including a keyboard positioned at the convex region.

公开(公告)号：US20240069595A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-29

申请号：US18388311

申请日：2023-11-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Keith J. Hendren ,  Paul X. Wang ,  Adam T. Garelli ,  Brett W. Degner ,  Christiaan A. Ligtenberg ,  Dinesh C. Mathew

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/041

CPC classification number: G06F1/1626 ,  G06F1/1643 ,  G06F1/1652 ,  G06F1/1662 ,  G06F3/0412

Abstract: An electronic device may include a glass housing member that includes an upper portion defining a display area, a lower portion defining an input area, and a transition portion joining the upper portion and the lower portion and defining a continuous, curved surface between the upper portion and the lower portion. The electronic device may include a display coupled to the glass housing member and configured to provide a visual output at the display area. The electronic device may include an input device coupled to the glass housing member and configured to detect inputs at the input area. The electronic device may include a support structure coupled to the glass housing member and configured to support the computing device.

公开(公告)号：US20230333658A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-19

申请号：US18212137

申请日：2023-06-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Christiaan A. Ligtenberg ,  Brett W. Degner ,  Ron A. Hopkinson ,  Asif Hussain ,  Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Mikael M. Silvanto ,  Chang Zhang ,  Zheng Gao ,  Robert Y. Cao ,  Keith J. Hendren ,  Bryan W. Posner ,  Simon R. Lancaster-Larocque ,  Alex J. Lehmann

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H03K17/96 ,  H01H13/785 ,  H01H13/85 ,  H01H13/86 ,  G06F3/04886 ,  G06F3/0354 ,  H03K17/94 ,  G06F3/02 ,  H03K17/98 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06V40/10 ,  H10N30/20 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  H01H13/703 ,  H01H13/705

CPC classification number: G06F3/016 ,  G06F1/1662 ,  H03K17/9622 ,  H01H13/785 ,  H01H13/85 ,  H01H13/86 ,  G06F3/04886 ,  G06F3/03547 ,  H03K17/943 ,  H03K17/9647 ,  G06F3/0213 ,  G06F1/1616 ,  G06F3/0216 ,  G06F3/017 ,  H03K17/98 ,  G06F3/04144 ,  G06F3/0446 ,  G06F3/0447 ,  G06F3/0414 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06V40/107 ,  H10N30/20 ,  G06F1/165 ,  G06F3/0412 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  H01H13/703 ,  H01H13/705 ,  H03K17/9643 ,  G06F1/266

Abstract: A portable computer includes a display portion comprising a display and a base portion pivotally coupled to the display portion. The base portion may include a bottom case and a top case, formed from a dielectric material, coupled to the bottom case. The top case may include a top member defining a top surface of the base portion and a sidewall integrally formed with the top member and defining a side surface of the base portion. The portable computer may also include a sensing system including a first sensing system configured to determine a location of a touch input applied to the top surface of the base portion and a second sensing system configured to determine a force of the touch input.

公开(公告)号：US10777857B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-15

申请号：US15962371

申请日：2018-04-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Keith J. Hendren ,  Bartley K. Andre ,  Duncan Robert Kerr ,  Christopher J. Stringer ,  Daniel J. Coster ,  Christiaan A. Ligtenberg ,  John Brock ,  Thomas W. Wilson ,  Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Brett W. Degner ,  Tomas E. Ponce

IPC: H01M10/48 ,  G06F1/16 ,  F21V5/00 ,  G08B5/36 ,  F21Y115/10

Abstract: A portable computer may include battery indicator light structures. Battery status information in the portable computer may be presented to a user using an array of light-emitting diodes or other light emitters. Light-emitting diodes may be mounted on a printed circuit board. A stiffener may provide the printed circuit board with rigidity. The printed circuit board may include a connector that allows the board to be connected to a main logic board. A switch on the printed circuit board may be actuated by a power button on the portable computer. An opaque member with an array of holes may be used to reduce light bleed between adjacent light-emitting diodes. Diffusing plastic may be mounted within the array of holes. Bumps in the diffusing plastic may mate with corresponding holes on a portable computer housing.

公开(公告)号：US10356942B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-16

申请号：US15904743

申请日：2018-02-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Brett W. Degner ,  Bartley K. Andre ,  Jeremy D. Bataillou ,  Jay S. Nigen ,  Christiaan A. Ligtenberg ,  Ron A. Hopkinson ,  Charles A. Schwalbach ,  Matthew P. Casebolt ,  Nicholas A. Rundle ,  Frank F. Liang

IPC: H05K7/20 ,  G06F1/20

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments related to a component for use in a portable electronic device. The component includes a wall of the portable electronic device, containing an intake zone that includes a set of intake vents. The wall also includes an exhaust zone containing a set of exhaust vents.

公开(公告)号：US10031367B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-24

申请号：US13628811

申请日：2012-09-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Victor H. Yin ,  Jun Qi ,  Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Shih-Chang Chang ,  Cheng Chen ,  John Z. Zhong ,  Wei Chen ,  Adam T. Garelli ,  Bryan W. Posner ,  Christiaan A. Ligtenberg

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1362 ,  G02F1/1345 ,  G02F1/1333

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display that has a layer of liquid crystal material interposed between a color filter layer and a thin-film-transistor layer. The thin-film-transistor layer may have a substrate with an upper surface and a lower surface. A circular polarizer may be formed on the upper surface. Thin-film transistor circuitry such as gate driver circuitry may be formed on the lower surface. A display driver circuit may be mounted on an inactive border region of the lower surface of the thin-film transistor substrate. Display pixels may form an array in a central active region of the display. A grid of metal gate and data lines may distribute signals from the display driver circuit and gate driver circuitry to the display pixels. A grid of non-reflecting lines may be interposed between the grid of metal lines and the lower surface.

公开(公告)号：US09804639B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-31

申请号：US13968254

申请日：2013-08-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Bryan W. Posner ,  Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Eric L. Benson ,  Jason N. Gomez ,  Jun Qi ,  Robert Y. Cao ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Christiaan A. Ligtenberg ,  Wey-Jiun Lin

IPC: G02F1/1345 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G02F1/133 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  H05K1/14

CPC classification number: G06F1/1683 ,  G02F1/13306 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G06F1/1637 ,  G06F1/1681 ,  H05K1/148 ,  H05K2201/10136

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing with a lid that rotates relative to a base. A display in the lid may have a thin-film transistor layer. Display driver circuitry may be mounted to the thin-film transistor layer. A display timing controller integrated circuit may be mounted in the base. A rigid flex printed circuit may have a rigid portion in the base to which the display timing controller integrated circuit is mounted and may have a rigid portion in the lid. A flexible printed circuit portion of the rigid flex printed circuit may be used to couple the rigid printed circuit portion in the lid to the thin-film transistor layer. A flexible printed circuit portion of the rigid flex printed circuit that extends between the lid and the base may be formed from a double-shield-layer single-signal-line-layer flexible printed circuit.

公开(公告)号：US20170285781A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-05

申请号：US15477409

申请日：2017-04-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Brett William Degner ,  Patrick Kessler ,  Christiaan A. Ligtenberg ,  Thomas W. Wilson, JR. ,  Bartley K. Andre ,  Matthew P. Casebolt

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/042 ,  H01H25/04 ,  G06F3/0354 ,  G06F3/044

CPC classification number: G06F3/041 ,  G06F1/169 ,  G06F3/03547 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F2203/04105 ,  H01H25/041

Abstract: An input device is disclosed. The input device includes a movable touch-sensitive track pad capable of detecting an object in close proximity thereto so as to generate a tracking control signal. The input device also includes a movement indicator capable of detecting the movements of the ovable track pad so as to generate one or more other control signals (e.g, button signals). The control signals can be used to perform actions in an electronic device operatively coupled to the input device.

公开(公告)号：US20170279097A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-28

申请号：US15618957

申请日：2017-06-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ron A. Hopkinson ,  Brett W. Degner ,  Robert S. Murphy ,  Christiaan A. Ligtenberg ,  Matthew P. Casebolt ,  Peter M. Arnold ,  Eric A. Knopf

IPC: H01M2/10

CPC classification number: H01M2/1066 ,  H01M10/0525 ,  H01M10/441 ,  H01M10/482 ,  Y10T29/49117

Abstract: A portable electronic device is described. This portable electronic device includes an external housing with a cavity defined by an edge. A keyboard, having a front surface and a back surface, is disposed in the cavity with the front surface facing the external housing. Moreover, a tray is disposed over the back surface of the keyboard, and is mechanically coupled to the external housing adjacent to the edge. Furthermore, battery cells are mechanically coupled to an opposite side of the tray from the back surface of the keyboard. The tray may allow the battery cells to be removed from the portable electronic device without damaging the keyboard. In addition, the tray may increase the compression strength and/or the bending strength of the portable electronic device.

公开(公告)号：US20170090597A1

公开(公告)日：2017-03-30

申请号：US15261924

申请日：2016-09-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mikael M. Silvanto ,  Erik A. Zweigle ,  Jun Qi ,  Christiaan A. Ligtenberg ,  Robert Y. Cao ,  Bartley K. Andre ,  Molly J. Anderson ,  ByoungSuk Kim ,  Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Victor H. Yin

IPC: G06F3/023 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/0488

CPC classification number: G06F3/0238 ,  G06F3/02 ,  G06F3/0231 ,  G06F3/03547 ,  G06F3/0414 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  G06F3/04886 ,  G06F2203/0339 ,  G06F2203/04104 ,  G06F2203/04105 ,  G06F2203/04111

Abstract: Embodiments related to an electronic device having an adaptive input row. The adaptive input row may be positioned within an opening of a device and include a cover for receiving a touch and a display that is configured to present an adaptable set of indicia. The adaptive input row may also include one or more sensors for detecting the location of a touch and/or the magnitude of a force of the touch. The adaptive input row may be positioned adjacent or proximate to a keyboard of the electronic device.