Apple Inc.

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Elvis Mwenda Kibiti

John Patrick Ternus

Jonathan P Ive

Christopher J Stringer

Daniel J Coster

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Florence W Ow

Sean D Lubner

Jiang Ai

Andrew Nelthropp Lauder

Stephen Robert McClure

Sean S Corbin

John Raff

Kevin David Gibbs

Carl R Peterson

Andrew David Lauder

Derek William Wright

Erik Andrew Uttermann

Jeremy C Franklin

Benjamin M Rappoport

Qiliang Xu

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Martha Evans Hankey

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniele De Iuliis

Jody R Akana

Jeremy D Bataillou

Julian Hoenig

Mikael M Silvanto

Shin Nishibori

Chen Zhang

Justin Richard Wodrich

Ronald Keryuan Huang

John Stephen Smith

Christopher D Moore

Qingxiang Li

Jules B Henry

Zhengyu Li

Ming Yu

Conor P Lenahan

Ming Gao

Piotr S Trzaskos

Christopher Tenzin Mullens

Alex Chun Lap Yeung

Blake R Marshall

Michael A Cretella

Teera Songatikamas

Venu Madhav Duggineni

Taylor Harrison Gilbert

Max A Maloney

Vipin Ayanoor-Vitikkate

Thomas R Matzinger

David Kim

Daniel Jacob Benjamin Bechstein

Jaime G Chavez Ruiz Garza

Charles A Bates, Iii

Erik D Gillow

Johan E Lyon

Erik A Utterman

Michael Man-Cheung Eng

Joyan Gratian Sanctis

Wang Chung Alston Cheung

Kristine S Tom

Shih-Hsiang Hsiao

Stephen R Mcclure

Brianna C Wilson

Luen-Chiou Lin

Shih-Ning Kao

Nitin Sitaraman

Lindsay Diane Rego Corbet

Jared A Brauner

Siddharth Shekar

Jiang Al

Evans Hankey

Chuan You Su

Iii Donald Q Ross

Gomez Rodney A Angulo

An electronic device such as a speaker device may have a curved housing characterized by a vertical longitudinal axis. A layer of fabric may cover the curved housing. A touch sensor may be used to detect touch input on the layer of fabric. The touch sensor may include capacitive touch sensor electrodes including drive lines and sense lines. In some arrangements, the touch sensor is formed from conductive strands in the layer of fabric. In other arrangements, the touch sensor is formed from conductive traces on a substrate. The substrate may be formed from portions of the curved housing or may be formed from a layer that is separate from the housing. Light-emitting components and/or fabric with different visual characteristics may be used to mark where the touch-sensitive regions of the fabric are located. The touch-sensitive regions may be shaped as media control symbols.

Fabric-covered electronic device with touch sensor

A portable computing device is disclosed. The portable computing device can take many forms such as a laptop computer, a tablet computer, and so on. The portable computing device can include at least a single piece housing. The single piece housing can be machined from a single billet of material, such as a billet of aluminum. The single piece housing can include ledges with a surface receiving a trim bead and a cover. Corner brackets can be attached to the single piece housing to improve the damage resistance of the housing.

Handheld portable device

In some examples, a stylus can include a conductive shield. In some examples, the conductive shield can include a plurality of traces along an edge of a printed circuit board (PCB) including the stylus circuitry. In some examples, the conductive shield can include a shield can coupled to the PCB and disposed around the components of the stylus circuitry. In some examples, the conductive shield can include a hollow portion into which the stylus circuitry can be disposed and a solid portion that can act as a reference electrode. In some examples, the conductive shield can include a hollow sleeve disposed around the stylus circuitry. In some examples, the conductive sleeve can be attached to the PCB. In some examples, the conductive sleeve can be disposed between layers of a housing of the stylus. In some examples, the conductive sleeve can be integrated with the stylus housing.

Shield electrode for input device

A magnetic attachment mechanism and method is described. The magnetic attachment mechanism can be used to releasably attach at least two objects together in a preferred configuration without fasteners and without external intervention. The magnetic attachment mechanism can be used to releasably attach an accessory device to an electronic device. The accessory device can be used to augment the functionality of usefulness of the electronic device.

Cover for an electronic device

An accessory device for an electronic device is described. The accessory device may include a cover section and a keyboard section. The cover section may include a receiving surface that engages the electronic device. The cover section may include electrical contacts designed to electrically couple with contacts on the electronic device. The cover section may include several magnets designed to magnetically couple with magnets within the electronic device. The keyboard section may include a keyboard and one or more channels designed to receive and position the electronic device in a usable configuration with the keyboard. Several magnets may surround each channel, and may magnetically couple with magnets within (and along an edge of) the electronic device. The magnetic circuits formed between the channel magnets and the device magnets may counter, or offset, forces that otherwise remove the electronic device from the channel in an undesired manner.

Keyboard accessory for a portable electronic device

Slide input component assemblies of an electronic device and methods for making the same are provided. In some embodiments, a slide input component assembly may include a slide button subassembly that may have a knob, a base, a retention mechanism that may couple the knob to the base, and a shell part that may be provided about at least a portion of the base. The slide input component assembly may also include a slide switch subassembly that may have a switch that may be configured to move along a switch path when the slide button subassembly moves along a button path.

Slide input component assemblies of an electronic device and methods for making the same

Method of forming a housing for an electronic device

Component for an electronic device

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Elvis Mwenda Kibiti