公开(公告)号：US11962162B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-16

申请号：US17147315

申请日：2021-01-12

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Bryan A. Cloyd ,  Linda D. Benavente-Notaro ,  Chengrui Zhang ,  Sara Rusignuolo

IPC分类号： G06F1/16 ,  A45C11/18 ,  A45C13/30 ,  H02J50/10 ,  H05K5/00 ,  H05K7/00

CPC分类号： H02J50/10 ,  A45C11/182 ,  A45C13/30 ,  A45C2013/306 ,  A45F2200/0516 ,  A45F2200/0525

摘要： An accessory device is disclosed. The accessory device may include multiple pockets, or sleeves, designed to carry items, such as an electronic device and a user's personal items (e.g., credits cards, cash, etc.). The accessory device also includes a magnet embedded in a back section, with the magnet designed to align an inductive charging mechanism that can charge the electronic device's battery when the electronic device is positioned within the accessory device. To improve charging efficiency, the back section also includes a structural layer designed to keep the back section flat when the electronic device is positioned within the accessory device. The structural layer can hide/obscure the magnet and other structures. Also, the accessory device includes a wireless communication circuit that can communicate with a corresponding wireless communication circuit in the electronic device, and provide information (e.g., openings and dimensional information of the accessory device) to the electronic device.

公开(公告)号：US11381892B1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-05

申请号：US16017835

申请日：2018-06-25

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： 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分类号： H04R1/02 ,  G06F1/18

摘要： 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.

公开(公告)号：US11998090B1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-04

申请号：US17554350

申请日：2021-12-17

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Kathryn P. Crews ,  Peter F. Coxeter ,  Yiwei Tao ,  Shantanu R Ranade ,  Christopher I. Edwards ,  David M. Kindlon ,  Linda D. Benavente-Notaro

IPC分类号： G06F3/01 ,  A44C5/00 ,  G06K19/06

CPC分类号： A44C5/0053 ,  G06F3/011 ,  G06K19/0614

摘要： Systems of the present disclosure can provide a watch band that provide a marker pattern to a computer-generated reality device. The watch band can include structures or features that provide an identifiable marker pattern to the computer-generated reality device. The structures or features that provide the marker pattern can be invisible or imperceptible to the user. Structures or features of the watch band can include infrared reflective thread, visually obscured markers, or lenticular lens assemblies.

公开(公告)号：US10814589B1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-27

申请号：US16005532

申请日：2018-06-11

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Timothy W. Scales ,  Whitney D. Mattson ,  Benjamin A. Stevenson ,  Linda D. Benavente-Notaro ,  Nicholas R. Trincia ,  William H. Chui ,  Hao Zhu

IPC分类号： H05K1/02 ,  B32B9/04 ,  F21V15/01 ,  B32B1/02 ,  B32B9/02 ,  B32B27/10 ,  B32B27/20 ,  H05K1/03 ,  H05K1/18 ,  B32B9/06 ,  B32B29/00 ,  F21V23/04 ,  F21Y115/10

摘要： An item may be formed from layers of material such as leatherboard layers. A leatherboard layer may include fibrous natural material such as leather or paper embedded in polymer. Portions of the leatherboard layer can be locally modified by incorporation of filler material with desired properties. The filler material may include magnetic particles, conductive particles, or other material. By incorporating the filler material in localized portions of the leatherboard layer, integral electrodes or magnets may be formed. The leatherboard layer may also include embedded circuitry. Items such as enclosures and other items may be formed from the leatherboard layer. The leatherboard layer in an item may include locally modified regions such as magnet regions that are configured to form a closure or other structures that interact with each other.