公开(公告)号：WO2020050880A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-12

申请号：PCT/US2019/023929

申请日：2019-03-25

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： STRYKER, James A. ,  MCLAIN, Caitlin M. ,  PEDLEY, Travis C. ,  TREADWELL, Nicholas A. ,  ZHU, Hao ,  ZHOU, Yang

IPC: A45C11/00 ,  A45C13/10 ,  A45C13/02 ,  A45C7/00 ,  A45C13/00 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H04M1/04

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.

公开(公告)号：WO2020055463A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-19

申请号：PCT/US2019/033823

申请日：2019-05-23

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： ZHU, Hao ,  ZHOU, Yang ,  MATZINGER, Thomas R. ,  ZHANG, Guangtao ,  YU, Ming ,  CHAVEZ RUIZ GARZA, Jaime G. ,  OW, Florence W. ,  STRYKER, James A. ,  PEDLEY, Travis C. ,  KUNA, Melody L. ,  GILBERT, Taylor Harrison

IPC: A45C11/00 ,  A45C13/10 ,  A45C13/00 ,  A45C13/02 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/02 ,  H05K5/03 ,  H05K5/00

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.