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公开(公告)号:US11839279B2
公开(公告)日:2023-12-12
申请号:US17223690
申请日:2021-04-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Timothy C. Wulff , Yang Zhou , James C. Wu , Tao Pan , Leon Zilun Zhang , Geng Luo
CPC classification number: A45C13/1069 , A45C11/182 , H01F7/02 , A45C2011/002 , A45C2011/003
Abstract: Accessories that can add new functionality to an electronic device. These accessories can provide additional functionality that allow for the replacement of a physical object that would otherwise be carried in addition to and separate from the electronic device. These accessories can further provide improvements, such as a reduction in size or improvement in functionality over the physical object to be replaced.
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公开(公告)号:US11513556B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-29
申请号:US16277999
申请日:2019-02-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: James A. Stryker , Caitlin M. Mclain , Travis C. Pedley , Nicholas A. Treadwell , Hao Zhu , Yang Zhou
Abstract: An accessory device for a portable electronic device is described. The accessory device includes a front cover connected to a back cover. The front cover includes multiple segments rotatable with respect to each other. The segments include magnets that allow the segments, through magnetic coupling, to couple with another segment or with the portable electronic device. When the front cover engages the back cover, a user may remove, or pull away, a segment from the back cover, causing the remaining segments to sequentially fall away from the back cover. In some instances, when the front cover at least partially engages the back cover, one of the segments includes magnets designed to couple with magnets in the back cover, but not with magnets in another segment. The accessory device may further include an opening that receives a camera assembly of the portable electronic device and forms a mechanical interlock.
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公开(公告)号:US10955875B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-23
申请号:US16848335
申请日:2020-04-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Hao Zhu , Yang Zhou , Thomas R. Matzinger , Guangtao Zhang , Ming Yu , Jaime G. Chavez Ruiz Garza , Florence W. Ow , James A. Stryker , Travis C. Pedley , Melody L. Kuna , Taylor Harrison Gilbert
Abstract: Electronic devices and accessory devices for electronic devices are described. In some instances, an accessory device includes a keyboard and a cover rotatable with respect to the keyboard. In some instances, an accessory device includes a back panel and a foldable cover rotatable with respect to the back panel. These accessory devices may include several magnetic elements designed to magnetically couple with, and retain, an electronic device without any additional mechanical or other interlocking devices. In this regard, the magnetic elements in the accessory devices provide an external magnetic field sufficiently strong enough to retain the electronic device, and can counter gravitational forces and/or the weight of the electronic device. However, some accessory devices include additional magnetic elements that provide an external magnetic field that repels magnetic elements in the electronic device. Also, the magnetic elements may also be used to hold different sections of the accessory device together.
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公开(公告)号:US20220087389A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-24
申请号:US17223690
申请日:2021-04-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Timothy C. Wulff , Yang Zhou , James C. Wu , Tao Pan , Leon Zilun Zhang
Abstract: Accessories that can add new functionality to an electronic device. These accessories can provide additional functionality that allow for the replacement of a physical object that would otherwise be carried in addition to and separate from the electronic device. These accessories can further provide improvements, such as a reduction in size or improvement in functionality over the physical object to be replaced.
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公开(公告)号:US12184322B2
公开(公告)日:2024-12-31
申请号:US17461704
申请日:2021-08-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Sean M. Cole , Nishant R. Jayant , Adriano De Fusco , James C Wu , Aaron A. Oro , Yang Zhou , Aleksandar Daniel O. Rivin , Xunsheng Wang , Ross D. Arriens , Charles W. Werley , Peter J. Guest , Alex J. Newman
IPC: H04B1/3888 , H04B5/26 , H04M1/02
Abstract: A magnetic alignment system can include a case with a magnetic alignment component that is configured to align with a magnetic alignment component of a wireless charging device. The case can support a portable electronic device, such as a smart phone and include an NFC coil for communicating with the portable electronic device. The magnetic alignment component and the NFC coil can be provided as an assembly that is embedded within a body of the case in a manner that provides a low profile and improved aesthetic appearance.
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公开(公告)号:US12156572B1
公开(公告)日:2024-12-03
申请号:US17489481
申请日:2021-09-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Seul Bi Kim , Ayumi Kusano , Bryan A. Cloyd , Motohide Hatanaka , Sara Rusignuolo , Yang Zhou , Anthony M. Ashcroft , Jack Pickup
IPC: A44B11/06
Abstract: A strap may have a strip of material. A flexible magnet and other layers may be embedded between outer layers of the strip. The outer layers may be formed from leather or other natural materials, fabric, polymer, or other materials. The strap may have a snap mechanism that removably couples the strap to the item. The strip may have left and right portions that are coupled together using sliders and the snap mechanism. The sliders may be fixedly attached to respective end portions of left and right portions of the strip. A first of the sliders may have a slot that allows the first slider to slide along the right strip portion and a second of the sliders may have a slot that allows the second slider to slide along the left strip portion so that the length of the strap may be adjusted.
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公开(公告)号:US10671121B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-02
申请号:US16415649
申请日:2019-05-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Hao Zhu , Yang Zhou , Thomas R. Matzinger , Guangtao Zhang , Ming Yu , Jaime G. Chavez Ruiz Garza , Florence W. Ow , James A. Stryker , Travis C. Pedley , Melody L. Kuna , Taylor Harrison Gilbert
Abstract: Electronic devices and accessory devices for electronic devices are described. In some instances, an accessory device includes a keyboard and a cover rotatable with respect to the keyboard. In some instances, an accessory device includes a back panel and a foldable cover rotatable with respect to the back panel. These accessory devices may include several magnetic elements designed to magnetically couple with, and retain, an electronic device without any additional mechanical or other interlocking devices. In this regard, the magnetic elements in the accessory devices provide an external magnetic field sufficiently strong enough to retain the electronic device, and can counter gravitational forces and/or the weight of the electronic device. However, some accessory devices include additional magnetic elements that provide an external magnetic field that repels magnetic elements in the electronic device. Also, the magnetic elements may also be used to hold different sections of the accessory device together.
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公开(公告)号:US12127651B1
公开(公告)日:2024-10-29
申请号:US16919000
申请日:2020-07-01
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Nicholas R. Trincia , Chihchen Sun , Qigen Ji , Yang Zhou , Jenna L. Withrow , Jack Pickup , Joshua A. Hoover
CPC classification number: A45C13/1069 , A45C11/00 , H01F7/02 , H04R1/1091 , H05K5/03 , A45C2011/001
Abstract: Items such as enclosures may be provided with hidden magnets. An enclosure may be formed from a flexible housing layer. The flexible housing layer may be configured to open and close by folding around fold axes. Portions of the flexible layer may include a flexible base layer with openings. Flexible magnets may be embedded within the openings. The flexible magnets may be used in forming a magnetic clasp for the enclosure. The flexible magnets may each have a height and durometer value that closely matches the height and durometer value of an adjacent portion of the flexible base layer, thereby helping to hide the flexible magnets within the housing layer.
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公开(公告)号:US11216031B2
公开(公告)日:2022-01-04
申请号:US16277999
申请日:2019-02-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: James A. Stryker , Caitlin M. Mclain , Travis C. Pedley , Nicholas A. Treadwell , Hao Zhu , Yang Zhou
Abstract: An accessory device for a portable electronic device is described. The accessory device includes a front cover connected to a back cover. The front cover includes multiple segments rotatable with respect to each other. The segments include magnets that allow the segments, through magnetic coupling, to couple with another segment or with the portable electronic device. When the front cover engages the back cover, a user may remove, or pull away, a segment from the back cover, causing the remaining segments to sequentially fall away from the back cover. In some instances, when the front cover at least partially engages the back cover, one of the segments includes magnets designed to couple with magnets in the back cover, but not with magnets in another segment. The accessory device may further include an opening that receives a camera assembly of the portable electronic device and forms a mechanical interlock.
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公开(公告)号:US11087430B2
公开(公告)日:2021-08-10
申请号:US16586370
申请日:2019-09-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Cody J. White , Randal W. Lamore , Pal-Kristian Engstad , Ivan Gavrenkov , Matthew Stoll , Yang Zhou
Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media to data drive a render graph are described. A render graph system defines one or more nodes for a render graph and one or more render targets associated with the nodes. The nodes includes one or more functions to define and resolve target handles for identifying render targets. The render graph system defines one or more connections between the nodes and render targets. The connection between the nodes and render targets form the render graph. The render graph system stores the render graph as a data file and converts, with a render graphics API, the data file into a render graph data object. The render graph system performs a frame setup phase the setups the render graph for a frame based on the render graph data object.
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