Apple Inc.

Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Sunpower Corporation

Alcoa Inc.

Adam Thomas Clavelle

Martin Melcher

Tyler S Bushnell

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Martha Evans Hankey

Jody R Akana

Jeremy D Bataillou

Julian Hoenig

Shota Aoyagi

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Mikael M Silvanto

Molly J Anderson

Markus Peter Diebel

Clement Tissandier

Julian Jaede

Marine C Bataille

Erik Geddes Pieter De Jong

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Erik G De Jong

Sung-Ho Tan

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Sameer Pandya

Collin R Petty

Colin M Ely

Christopher S Graham

Trevor J Ness

Jayesh Nath

Steven P Cardinali

Makiko K Brzezinski

Ueyn L Block

Rex Tyler Ehman

Peter J Kardassakis

Tobias J Harrison-Noonan

Stefan A Kowalski

Morgan T McClure

Paul David Mannheimer

Dale N Memering

Maegan K Spencer

William C Lukens

Zhipeng Zhang

Steven C Roach

Sherry Tang

Jaden A Barney

Christopher Matthew Werner

Stephen N Sweet

Sriram Moorthy

Huan Peng

Gilad Almogy

Rico Zörkendörfer

David I Nazzaro

Ratson Morad

Nathan Beckett

Naoto Matsuyuki

James A Yurko

Abhijeet Misra

Michael R Parker

Brian M Gable

Eric W Hamann

Isabel Yang

Jody Fu

Ross L Jackson

Alvin T Chang

Jason C Kalus

Anthony D Prescenzi

Jennifer Crystal Perreira

Charles Michael Sanford Shaw

Allan Freas Velzy

Tyler Ehman

Stephen R Mcclure

Inori Iwata

Eric G De Jong

Zachary John Stowell

David Stephen Musso

Charles Bartlett Stewart

Evan James English

Christopher Matthew D'Eramo

Shandor Glenn Dektor

Jayeon Kim

Jody C Fu

Steven Colin Roach

Graham Christopher S S

Backplate for an electronic device

Wearable electronic devices, such as watches, can be provided with an attachment system for connecting and releasing a removable module that interfaces with some portion of the electronic device. For example, a watch housing includes a main body having a channel for receiving a watchband and a first opening extending to the channel. A rear cover coupled to the main body provides a second opening. A unibody button is positioned between the main body and the rear cover. The button is biased against the rear cover and is moveable toward the channel to release a watchband engaged therein.

Attachment system for watchband

A portable electronic device can include a housing at least partially defining an internal volume and a battery disposed in the internal volume. The battery can include sidewalls and a top portion extending past the sidewalls to define a flange. A component can be positioned in the internal volume adjacent to the battery, and at least a portion of the component can extend beyond an edge of the flange toward the sidewall of the battery.

Electronic device

A compact crown for an electronic device such as an electronic watch, including a set of wipers capable of determining a rotation angle, rotation direction, or rotation speed, is disclosed. The set of wipers is in contact with at least one resistance member at different angular positions around a rotation axis. The crown may have a group of ground taps disposed along the resistance member and a measured signal may vary based on the position of each wiper as it contacts the at least one resistance member. A compact crown may also include capacitive members and capacitive sensors in order to similarly determine rotation angle, rotation direction, or rotation speed.

Rotatable crown for an electronic device

An input mechanism for a portable electronic device includes a rotational manipulation mechanism, such as a cap or shaft. The input mechanism also includes a sensor having first capacitive elements coupled to the manipulation mechanism, second capacitive elements, and a dielectric positioned between the first and second capacitive elements. Movement of the manipulation mechanism alters the positions of the first and second capacitive elements with respect to each other and is determinable based on capacitance changes resulting therefrom. In some implementations, the second capacitive elements may be part of an inner ring or partial ring nested at least partially within an outer ring or partial ring.

Capacitive gap sensor ring for an input device

A 3D printed metallic structure can include an elongated body defining an orifice, the elongated body divisible into a plurality of sectioned elements. The plurality of sectioned elements configured for use a housing or enclosures of electronic devices.

Direct metal deposition of electronic device components

An integrated window for a photosensor for use in an electronic device has first and second transparent regions separated by an opaque region. The first transparent region allows a transmitter to emit light out of the housing of the electronic device and the second transparent region allows a receiver to receive light through the housing. The opaque region is disposed between the first and second transparent regions to isolate them from one another such that the transmitted light is isolated from the received light.

Sensor window with integrated isolation feature

A watch having a cover is described. An optical sensor subsystem is attached adjacent to or directly on an interior surface of the cover. In some cases, the optical sensor subsystem includes a substrate to which a light emitter and a light receiver are attached. The light receiver is configured to receive light emitted by the light emitter and reflected from the skin of a person that wears the watch. In some cases, the light emitter and light receiver are separated by a light-blocking wall that abuts the interior surface of the cover. In some cases, a light filter is attached adjacent or directly on the interior surface of the cover, between the cover and the light receiver.

Optical sensor subsystem adjacent a cover of an electronic device housing

An electronic device, such as a watch, has a housing to which a carrier is attached. The carrier has a first surface interior to the electronic device, and a second surface exterior to the electronic device. A set of electrodes is deposited on the exterior surface of the carrier. An additional electrode is operable to be contacted by a finger of a user of the electronic device while the first electrode is positioned against skin of the user. The additional electrode may be positioned on a user-rotatable crown of the electronic device, on a button of the electronic device, or on another surface of the housing of the electronic device. A processor of the electronic device is operable to determine a biological parameter of the user based on voltages at the electrodes. The biological parameter may be an electrocardiogram.

Wearable electronic device with electrodes for sensing biological parameters

This disclosure describes a portable electronic device that includes a first housing component having an exterior-facing surface and an interior-facing surface; and a second housing component cooperating with the first housing component to define an interior volume. A seal fills an interface between the first and second housing components. Electrically conductive material that forms an electrically conductive pathway extends across portions of the interior and exterior-facing surfaces of the first housing component. The electrically conductive pathway is configured to transmit and/or receive signals or power between an exterior and interior of the portable electronic device.

Film coatings as electrically conductive pathways

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Adam Thomas Clavelle