Apple Inc.

Other

Brett W Degner

Chris A Ligtenberg

David H Narajowski

Matthew Phillip Casebolt

Dinesh C Mathew

Michael E Leclerc

Patrick Kessler

Ron Alan Hopkinson

Bartley K Andre

Michael D McBroom

Caitlin Elizabeth Kalinowski

Christiaan A Ligtenberg

John M Brock

Christopher J Stringer

Bradley Joseph Hamel

Daniel Lynn McBroom

Thomas W Wilson, Jr

Bryan W Posner

Peteris K Augenbergs

Keith J Hendren

Joshua D Banko

Kevin Scott Fetterman

Jonathan L Berk

John Raff

William Francis Leggett

Paul A Baker

Nicholas Alan Rundle

Victor H Yin

Duncan Robert Kerr

Eugene Antony Whang

Daniele De Iuliis

Mikael M Silvanto

Charles A Schwalbach

Jeffrey Traer Bernstein

Jeremy D Bataillou

Avi Elias Cieplinski

Aleksandar Pance

Adam T Garelli

Markus Peter Diebel

Sung-Ho Tan

Jonah Alexander Harley

Houtan R Farahani

Zheng Gao

John Z Zhong

Steve Porter Hotelling

Michelle Rae Goldberg

John Patrick Ternus

Mahmoud R Amini

Robert Y Cao

Asif Hussain

Chang Zhang

Daniel J Coster

Eric Steven Jol

Storrs Townsend Hoen

Samuel Bruce Weiss

Alex Joseph Lehmann

Ibuki Kamei

Daniel C Wagman

Kevin M Robinson

Shin Nishibori

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Paul Stephen Drzaic

Anthony Joseph Aiello

Douglas Blake Kough

Wei Chen

Camille Moussette

Sean S Corbin

Anthony Joseph Guetta

John B Morrell

Amy A Han

Michael D Hillman

Robert Sean Murphy

Jonathan P Ive

Ian P Shaeffer

Stephen Brian Lynch

Stephen Paul Zadesky

Xiang Zhang

Daniel D Sunshine

John C Difonzo

Kenneth Lawrence Staton

Richard P Howarth

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Martha Evans Hankey

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Jody R Akana

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Julian Hoenig

Wayne Carl Westerman

Stephen Robert McClure

Jean-Pierre Simon Guillou

Erik James Shahoian

Vasudha Gupta

Omar Sze Leung

Chieh-Wei Chen

William P Cornelius

Young Bae Park

George Tziviskos

George V Anastas

John C DiFonzo

Erik Andrew Uttermann

Support systems and stands for electronic devices include tilt hinges, lift arms, and their component parts. Some tilt hinges include assemblies for guiding and retaining bars or protrusions into preferred positioning within receiver openings to unify the parts, particularly as they move, and to reduce wobble or slop in the joints. Lift arms provide simplified and low-cost guidance and counterbalance mechanisms for controlling movement of the electronic device relative to the base of a stand. In some cases, the lift arms have sheaths to help protect or cover mechanisms while allowing additional space for the mechanisms within the lift arm. Other interconnection systems hide and protect a connector interface between the stand and the electronic device within a housing until unlocked and the connector is moved into an exposed position. These systems improve efficiency, comfort, ergonomics, accessibility, and user satisfaction of the electronic devices and their supports.

Reconfigurable stand ecosystem

An internal component and external interface arrangement for a cylindrical compact computing system is described that includes at least a structural heat sink having triangular shape disposed within a cylindrical volume defined by a cylindrical housing. A computing engine having a generally triangular shape is described having internal components that include a graphics processing unit (GPU) board, a central processing unit (CPU) board, an input/output (V/O) interface board, an interconnect board, and a power supply unit (PSU).

Desktop electronic device

This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that reduce the size of headphones and allow for small form-factor storage configurations are discussed. User convenience features that include synchronizing earpiece stem positions and automatically detecting the orientation of the headphones on a user's head are also discussed. Various power-saving features, design features, sensor configurations and user comfort features are also discussed.

Headphones

An electronic device may include a glass housing member that includes an upper portion defining a display area, a lower portion defining an input area, and a transition portion joining the upper portion and the lower portion and defining a continuous, curved surface between the upper portion and the lower portion. The electronic device may include a display coupled to the glass housing member and configured to provide a visual output at the display area. The electronic device may include an input device coupled to the glass housing member and configured to detect inputs at the input area. The electronic device may include a support structure coupled to the glass housing member and configured to support the computing device.

Electronic device with glass housing member

An electronic device housing may have upper and lower portions that are attached with a hinge. At least one portion of the housing may have a rear planar surface and peripheral sidewalls having edges. A display module may be mounted in the housing. The display module may have glass layers such as a color filter glass layer and a thin-film transistor substrate. The color filter glass layer may serve as the outermost glass layer in the display module. The edges of the display module may be aligned with the edges of the peripheral housing sidewalls to create the appearance of a borderless display for the electronic device. The display module may be provided with an opening that allows a camera or other electronic components to receive light. Traces may be provided on the underside of the thin-film transistor substrate to serve as signal paths for the electrical components.

Portable computer display structures

A portable computer includes a display portion comprising a display and a base portion pivotally coupled to the display portion. The base portion may include a bottom case and a top case, formed from a dielectric material, coupled to the bottom case. The top case may include a top member defining a top surface of the base portion and a sidewall integrally formed with the top member and defining a side surface of the base portion. The portable computer may also include a sensing system including a first sensing system configured to determine a location of a touch input applied to the top surface of the base portion and a second sensing system configured to determine a force of the touch input.

Device having integrated interface system

A computing device can include an enclosure that defines an internal volume and an external surface. An input component can be positioned at the external surface. A processing unit and a memory can be communicatively coupled and disposed within the internal volume. A singular input/output port can be positioned at an orifice defined by the enclosure. The singular input/output port can be communicatively coupled to the processing unit and the memory. The singular input/output port can be configured to receive data and power and configured to output data from the processing unit. The computing device can include an air-moving apparatus to move air along an airflow pathway. The enclosure can include a thermally conductive base.

Computer in an input device

An internal component and external interface arrangement for a cylindrical compact computing system is described that includes at least a structural heat sink having triangular shape disposed within a cylindrical volume defined by a cylindrical housing. A computing engine having a generally triangular shape is described having internal components that include a graphics processing unit (GPU) board, a central processing unit (CPU) board, an input/output (I/O) interface board, an interconnect board, and a power supply unit (PSU).

A desktop computing system having at least a central core surrounded by housing having a shape that defines a volume in which the central core resides is described. The housing includes a first opening and a second opening axially displaced from the first opening. The first opening having a size and shape in accordance with an amount of airflow used as a heat transfer medium for cooling internal components, the second opening defined by a lip that engages a portion of the airflow in such a way that at least some of the heat transferred to the air flow from the internal components is passed to the housing.

Computer housing

This application relates to modifications and enhancements to assemblies used with integrated circuits. In the described embodiments, multiple thermal components (e.g., vapor chambers, fin stacks, heat pipes) can be used to provide a dual-sided thermal energy extraction solution for a circuit board and an integrated circuit located on the circuit board. The thermal components can provide thermal energy dissipation capabilities for additional heat-generating components on the circuit board. Additionally, multiple plates can provide a compression force used to maintain contact between the integrated circuit and the circuit board, and in particular, between contact pads of the integrated circuit and pins, or springs, of a socket located on the circuit board.

Structural and thermal management of an integrated circuit

Computer modules that can have a high-capacity, can simplify the design of a computer system housing the modules, can utilize system resources in a highly configurable manner, can provide a variety of functionality, and can be readily inserted into, and removed from, a computer system.

High-capacity computer modules

A display stand has two spaced apart legs connected by a horizontal support bar that is attachable to multiple displays. Carriage assemblies allow the stand to adjust the vertical position of the displays, shuttles and rails allow the stand to adjust the horizontal positions of the displays, and a central joint on the support bar allows the stand to adjust the angle between the displays. The carriage assemblies can convert rotational movement of adjustment handles into vertical movement of the support bar that is synchronized at both legs whether the support bar is in a straight or angled configuration. Wheels on the shuttles can provide smooth, consistent contact with rails in the support bar despite changes in the nominal dimensions of the rails. The display stand provides improved smoothness, rigidity, and comfort for the user to support and use multiple displays on a single stand.

Dual display stand

An electronic device can include a housing that defines an internal volume. The electronic device can also include a component within the internal volume that divides the internal volume into a first volume and a second volume. The first volume and second volume can be fluidically isolated except at an aperture defined by the component. An air-moving system can produce a positive air pressure in the first volume and a negative air pressure in the second volume.

Computer tower architecture thermal management

Growing community of inventors

Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Brett W Degner