Apple Inc.

Benedict Drevniok

Andrew W Joyce

Pavan Gupta

Albert Lin

Julian K Shutzberg

Hojjat Seyed Mousavi

David Steven Graff

Mo Li

A device includes a housing defining part of an interior volume and an opening to the interior volume; a cover mounted to the housing to cover the opening and further define the interior volume; a display mounted within the interior volume and viewable through the cover; and a system in package (SiP) mounted within the interior volume. The SiP includes a self-capacitance sense pad adjacent a first surface of the SiP; a set of solder structures attached to a second surface of the SiP, the second surface opposite the first surface; and an IC coupled to the self-capacitance sense pad and configured to output, at one or more solder structures in the set of solder structures, a digital value related to a measured capacitance of the self-capacitance sense pad. The SiP is mounted within the interior volume with the first surface positioned closer to the cover than the second surface.

Force or touch sensing on a mobile device using capacitive or pressure sensing

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Benedict Drevniok