Apple Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

Other

Eric Andrew Knopf

Matthew Phillip Casebolt

Houtan R Farahani

Ron Alan Hopkinson

Bartley K Andre

Brett W Degner

Mikael M Silvanto

Shin Nishibori

John Patrick Ternus

Sean S Corbin

Michael D McBroom

Peter M Arnold

Zheng Gao

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Dinesh C Mathew

Christiaan A Ligtenberg

Robert Y Cao

Daniel Lynn McBroom

Craig C Leong

Amy A Han

Michael D Hillman

Brian Thomas Sudderth

Gavin J Reid

Matthew Theobald

Ryan P Brooks

Ricardo Alba Mariano

Jay S Nigen

David Phillip Tarkington

Bradford J Zercoe

Richard H Tan

Chiew-Siang Goh

Eric J Weirshauser

Joseph B Moak

Daniele De Iuliis

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

William Francis Leggett

Jonathan L Berk

Robert Sean Murphy

Derek Yap

Bruce E Berg

Chris A Ligtenberg

Erik James Shahoian

Edwin Joseph Selker

John M Brock

Sung Hoon Kim

Anthony Joseph Aiello

Wayne H Miller

Jesse T Dybenko

Richard D Kosoglow

Perry Q Anderson

Robert L Coish

Christoph Matthias Pistor

Eugene J Kim

Shravan Bharadwaj

James M Cuseo

Jim C Hwang

Arash Naghib Lahouti

Karen Y Cheng

Richard A Herms

Daniel David Hershey

Brad Lee Patton

Christopher Karl Eisbach

Trevor J Edmonds

Aaron N Miletich

Steve Holmes

Rick Mariano

Derek Solomon Pai

Todd Clossen Wyant

David C Parell

Seth G McFarland

Kwonil D Fleischman

William R Allan, Ii

Danielle De Iuliis

Ramiro Ramirez

Greg Fosnes

Jay Anastas

David P Tarkinton

Danielle Deluliis

Matt Rohrbach

Electronic device

A rack system for one or more computing systems is described. The rack system may include support structures, or rack structures, and a housing affixed or un-affixed to the support structures. The rack system may include rails, including telescoping rails, affixed to the support structures and coupled to the computing system. When the rack system is in a closed position, the computing system is positioned within the housing. When the rack system is in an open position, the computing system is removed from the housing and the components of the computing system are accessible. In the open position, only components on one surface of the circuit board are accessible. However, the computing system can rotate, thereby placing the components on the opposing surface of the circuit board in an accessible position. Alternatively, the housing can be affixed to the computing system, and include modifications for access to the computing system.

Computing workstation with accessible in a rack environment

An input mechanism is disclosed. The input mechanism includes a dome support structure defining an opening that extends through the dome support structure, a collapsible dome positioned in the opening and engaged with the dome support structure, and a cover member coupled to the dome support structure and covering the collapsible dome, thereby retaining the collapsible dome within the opening of the dome support structure.

Keyboard for electronic device

A portable electronic device is described. This portable electronic device includes an external housing with a cavity defined by an edge. A keyboard, having a front surface and a back surface, is disposed in the cavity with the front surface facing the external housing. Moreover, a tray is disposed over the back surface of the keyboard, and is mechanically coupled to the external housing adjacent to the edge. Furthermore, battery cells are mechanically coupled to an opposite side of the tray from the back surface of the keyboard. The tray may allow the battery cells to be removed from the portable electronic device without damaging the keyboard. In addition, the tray may increase the compression strength and/or the bending strength of the portable electronic device.

Battery structure and integration

In an exemplary electronic device with a cooling fan, a fan assembly is attached to a keyboard assembly of the electronic device. The fan assembly includes an impeller at least partially inside a fan enclosure. The fan enclosure has, on a surface, an inlet opening and an external protrusion. The electronic device further includes a bottom case. The fan assembly is positioned between the keyboard assembly and the bottom case and oriented such that the inlet opening and the external protrusion face the bottom case. The external protrusion maintains a passage between the fan enclosure and the bottom case that allows air to enter the inlet opening and also resists interference between the rotating impeller and the stationary bottom case.

Electronic device with cooling fan

A removable assembly for quickly inserting and removing a mass storage device from a compartment situated on the case of a portable computing device is described. The removable assembly is made of a mass storage device, a bracket which serves as a carrier for the mass storage device, and a metal plate. In some embodiments, the mass storage device is a solid state drive (SSD) card. The bracket is a single-piece plastic structure that is deflected for snap insertion into the compartment and snap removal from the compartment. The metal plate conducts heat from the solid state drive (SSD) card to prevent the SSD from overheating.

SSD (solid state drive) related features of a portable computer

An interposer for electrically coupling a battery-management circuit board in a power supply and a motherboard is described. The interposer includes: a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface; first spring connectors, disposed on the top surface, which electrically couple to the battery-management circuit board; and second spring connectors, disposed on the bottom surface and electrically coupled to the first spring connectors, which electrically couple to the motherboard. Spring connectors in a first subset of the first and second spring connectors that convey power signals have a first vertical height, and spring connectors in a second subset of the first and second spring connectors that convey monitoring signals for the power supply have a second, smaller vertical height. In this way, the first subset is activated before the second subset is activated, thereby ensuring that an electrical path for the power signals is established first.

Cableless battery integration

Non-rectangular or rectangular interposers for space efficient, reliable to manufacture, high speed interconnections between two printed circuit boards, such as a motherboard and a mating board. One example provides space efficiency with a non-rectangular interposer, where the interposer may be at least approximately circular. Reliable manufacturing may be provided by the inclusion of one or more openings to accept one or more alignment features. In one example, a first opening is provided to accept a threaded boss, which may be used to fasten the two printed circuit boards and interposer together. In another example, a second opening may be provided to accept an alignment post, wherein the post aligns the interposer to the two printed circuit boards. Contacts may be provided on each side to mate with contacts on each of the two printed circuit boards.

Interposer connectors with alignment features

Battery

The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that facilitates thermal conductance in a system that includes a module comprising a circuit board with integrated circuits, such as a solid-state drive. A thermal-coupling material between one side of the circuit board and an adjacent baseplate is used to increase thermal conduction between the circuit board and the baseplate. Furthermore, the module may include another thermal-coupling material between the baseplate and a housing that at least in part surrounds the circuit board, thereby increasing thermal conduction between the baseplate and the housing. In these ways, the baseplate and/or the housing may be used as a heat-transfer surfaces or heat spreaders that reduce hotspots associated with operation of the integrated circuits.

Solid-state drive with passive heat transfer

An aesthetically pleasing small form factor desktop computer is described. The small form factor desktop computer can be formed of a single piece seamless housing that in the described embodiment is machined from a single billet of aluminum. The single piece seamless housing includes an aesthetically pleasing foot support having at least a portion formed of RF transparent material that provides easy user access to selected internal components as well as offers electromagnetic (EM) shielding. This simplicity of design can accrue many advantages to the small form factor desktop computer besides those related to aesthetic look and feel. Fewer components and less time and effort can be required for assembly of the small form factor desktop computer and the absence of seams in the single piece housing can provide good protection against environmental contamination of internal components as well as EM shielding.

Small form factor desktop computer

Growing community of inventors

Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Eric Andrew Knopf