Drop protection for display assistant device

    公开(公告)号:US11209873B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-28

    申请号:US16596711

    申请日:2019-10-08

    Applicant: GOOGLE LLC

    Abstract: In a display assistant device, a display panel assembly has a plurality of first retention elements, and each first retention element is formed on a rear surface of the display panel assembly and adjacent to a respective first edge of the display panel assembly. A back cover is configured to hold the display panel assembly using a plurality of second retention elements. Each second retention element is arranged adjacent to a respective second edge of the back cover. When mated to each other, the first and second retention elements are configured to control an in-plane displacement of each second edge of the back cover in response to an impact of a force on the second edges, thereby limiting an out-of-plane displacement of each second edge of the back cover and protecting the first edges of the display panel assembly from falling apart from the second edges of the back cover.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING EXCESSIVE VIBRATION IN A CONSUMER DEVICE USING COMPUTERIZED MODELING

    公开(公告)号:US20210365613A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-25

    申请号:US16880750

    申请日:2020-05-21

    Applicant: GOOGLE LLC

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for evaluating a device design to reduce audio speaker generated vibrational energy transfer between adjoining components of a device. The method performs a system-level modal analysis on the design to extract a natural frequency and a mode shape and thereafter create an analysis monitoring point on the design between two adjacent components defining a relative distance. Simulation inputs are fed into a linear dynamics finite element analysis (FEA) solver to solve system equations for a relative displacement of the two adjacent components at the analysis monitoring point, and if the solved relative displacement causes the relative distance to be equal to or less than a zero-relative distance value, then the device design is modified by at least one value of an element from one of the two adjacent components.

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