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公开(公告)号:US20250004342A1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-02
申请号:US18743709
申请日:2024-06-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Zachary M. Beiley , Sean E. Doris , Tuncay Ozel , Alexander D. Schlaupitz , Xiaonan Wen
IPC: G02F1/157 , G02B27/01 , G02F1/1503 , G02F1/1514 , G02F1/161
Abstract: An electronic device may include a display with a waveguide that directs image light to an eye box using an output coupler. The display may include an electrically adjustable tint layer overlapping the output coupler. The tint layer may serve to maximize contrast of images in the image light. The tint layer may include a peripheral edge seal between first and second substrates and laterally surrounding an electrochromic gel. The peripheral edge seal may protect the gel from water and oxygen. The peripheral edge seal may include one or more rings of material and/or a glass ring spacer, the substrates may include cavities, and/or the gel may include spacer beads to help minimize warpage upon curing and thus maximize flatness of the tint layer. The electrochromic gel may include first and second redox species and a third redox species configured to tune a color response of the tint layer.
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公开(公告)号:US10775890B2
公开(公告)日:2020-09-15
申请号:US15717682
申请日:2017-09-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Xiaonan Wen , James E. Pedder
Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed which includes a conductive layer for providing haptic feedback at an input surface of the electronic device. The conductive layer includes conductive particles within an organic compound, such as an epoxy. When the conductive layer is activated it may provide frictional or other tactile feedback at the input surface.
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公开(公告)号:US20170023420A1
公开(公告)日:2017-01-26
申请号:US14823910
申请日:2015-08-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Michael Vosgueritchian , John Stephen Smith , Sinan Filiz , James E. Pedder , Tingjun Xu , Xiaonan Wen
IPC: G01L1/22
CPC classification number: G01L1/225 , G01L1/22 , G01L1/2287 , G06F3/0414 , G06F3/045 , G06F3/0488
Abstract: One or more strain sensors can be included in an electronic device. Each strain sensor includes a strain sensitive element and one or more strain signal lines connected directly to the strain sensitive element. The strain sensor(s) are used to detect a force that is applied to the electronic device, to a component in the electronic device, and/or to an input region or surface of the electronic device. A strain sensitive element is formed or processed to have a first gauge factor and the strain signal line(s) is formed or processed to have a different second gauge factor. Additionally or alternatively, a strain sensitive element is formed or processed to have a first conductance and the strain signal line(s) is formed or processed to have a different second conductance.
Abstract translation: 电子设备中可以包括一个或多个应变传感器。 每个应变传感器包括应变敏感元件和直接连接到应变敏感元件的一个或多个应变信号线。 应变传感器用于检测施加到电子设备,电子设备中的部件和/或电子设备的输入区域或表面的力。 应变敏感元件被形成或加工成具有第一规格因子,并且应变信号线被形成或加工成具有不同的第二规格因子。 附加地或替代地,应变敏感元件被形成或加工成具有第一电导,并且应变信号线被形成或加工成具有不同的第二电导。
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公开(公告)号:US11460946B2
公开(公告)日:2022-10-04
申请号:US17360970
申请日:2021-06-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Qiliang Xu , Alex J. Lehmann , Ming Yu , Xianwei Zhao , Xiaonan Wen , Shan Wu , Xiaofan Niu
IPC: G06F3/041 , G06F3/01 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/045 , G06F3/0354
Abstract: An electronic device includes an input device. The input device has an input/output module below or within a cover defining an input surface. The input/output module detects touch and/or force inputs on the input surface, and provides haptic feedback to the cover. In some instances, a haptic device is integrally formed with a wall or structural element of a housing or enclosure of the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号:US11353933B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-07
申请号:US16885045
申请日:2020-05-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Qiliang Xu , Kevin M. Robinson , Xiaonan Wen , Shingo Yoneoka
Abstract: A notebook computer may include a display portion, a base portion, a hinge mechanism movably coupling the display portion to the base portion, an optical sensing system configured to capture an image of an object, an actuation system comprising a shape-memory alloy member coupled to the base portion and the display portion and configured to move the display portion relative to the base portion, and a processing system. The processing system may be configured to determine a target position for the display portion based at least in part on a location of the object in the image and cause the actuation system to actuate the hinge mechanism to move the display portion, relative to the base portion, from an initial position to the target position.
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公开(公告)号:US11054932B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-06
申请号:US16102557
申请日:2018-08-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Qiliang Xu , Alex J. Lehmann , Ming Yu , Xianwei Zhao , Xiaonan Wen , Shan Wu , Xiaofan Niu
IPC: G06F3/041 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/01 , G06F3/045 , G06F3/0354
Abstract: An electronic device includes an input device. The input device has an input/output module below or within a cover defining an input surface. The input/output module detects touch and/or force inputs on the input surface, and provides haptic feedback to the cover. In some instances, a haptic device is integrally formed with a wall or structural element of a housing or enclosure of the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号:US20180157363A1
公开(公告)日:2018-06-07
申请号:US15867297
申请日:2018-01-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Michael Vosgueritchian , James E. Pedder , John Stephen Smith , Xiaonan Wen
CPC classification number: G06F3/0414 , G06F3/0412 , G06F3/0416 , G06F2203/04103 , H01L27/1218 , Y10S977/762
Abstract: One or more transparent transistor force sensitive structures can be included in an electronic device. The transistor force sensitive structures(s) is used to detect a force that is applied to the electronic device, to a component in the electronic device, and/or to an input region of the electronic device. As one example, the one or more transparent transistor force sensitive structures may be included in a display stack of a display in an electronic device.
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公开(公告)号:US20210325993A1
公开(公告)日:2021-10-21
申请号:US17360970
申请日:2021-06-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Qiliang Xu , Alex J. Lehmann , Ming Yu , Xianwei Zhao , Xiaonan Wen , Shan Wu , Xiaofan Niu
Abstract: An electronic device includes an input device. The input device has an input/output module below or within a cover defining an input surface. The input/output module detects touch and/or force inputs on the input surface, and provides haptic feedback to the cover. In some instances, a haptic device is integrally formed with a wall or structural element of a housing or enclosure of the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号:US20200096770A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-26
申请号:US16520200
申请日:2019-07-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: James E. Pedder , Igor Stamenov , Cheng Chen , Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov , Graham B. Myhre , Victoria C. Chan , Xiaonan Wen , Peng Lv , Yuan Li , Yu Horie , Siddharth S. Hazra
Abstract: A lens module in a head-mounted device may include a fluid-filled chamber, a semi-rigid lens element that at least partially defines the fluid-filled chamber, and at least one actuator configured to selectively bend the semi-rigid lens element. The semi-rigid lens element may become rigid along a first axis when the lens element is curved along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. Six actuators that are evenly distributed around the periphery of the semi-rigid lens element may be used to control the curvature of the semi-rigid lens element. The semi-rigid lens element may initially be planar or non-planar. For example, the semi-rigid lens element may initially have a spherically convex surface and a spherically concave surface. A tunable spherical lens may be incorporated into the lens module to offset a parasitic spherical lens power from the semi-rigid lens element.
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公开(公告)号:US20190094969A1
公开(公告)日:2019-03-28
申请号:US15717714
申请日:2017-09-27
Applicant: Apple, Inc.
Inventor: Xiaonan Wen , James E. Pedder
CPC classification number: G06F3/016 , G06F3/0416 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/0443 , G06F3/0445 , G06F3/0446 , G06F2203/04103
Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed which includes a conductive layer for providing haptic feedback at an input surface of the electronic device. The conductive layer includes conductive particles within an organic compound, such as an epoxy. When the conductive layer is activated it may provide frictional or other tactile feedback at the input surface.
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