Apple Inc.

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Erik Andrew Uttermann

Christopher J Stringer

Sean S Corbin

Stephen Robert McClure

John Raff

Derek William Wright

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniel J Coster

Kevin David Gibbs

Jeremy C Franklin

Andrew Nelthropp Lauder

John Patrick Ternus

Jiang Ai

Elvis Mwenda Kibiti

Carl R Peterson

Soyoung Kim

Benjamin M Rappoport

Qingxiang Li

Jules B Henry

Rodney Andres Gomez Angulo

Melody L Kuna

Robert Scritzky

Oliver Ross

Ming Yu

Florence W Ow

Justin Richard Wodrich

Hao Zhu

Dhaval Chandrakant Patel

Lee B Hamstra

Guangtao Zhang

G Kyle Lobisser

Piotr S Trzaskos

Inna Lobel

Conor P Lenahan

Trevor M Cardiff

Jason S Keats

Stephen C McClure

Sayooj R Pillai

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Brett W Degner

Robert W Schlub

Eric Steven Jol

Cheng Kai Chen

Albert John Golko

Enrique Ayala Vazquez

David H Narajowski

Martin Paul Grunthaner

John C Difonzo

Jason S Sloey

John B Ardisana, Ii

Samuel Gilkison Smith

George V Anastas

Salih Yarga

Ryan J Mihelich

Michael Kai Morishita

Alex Chun Lap Yeung

Trent K Do

Wenyong Zhu

Kevin M Kenney

Santhana Krishnan Balaji

Manu Agarwal

Pablo Seoane Vieites

Max A Maloney

Eric T SooHoo

Lucas R Compton

Wei Lv

David Kim

Thomas O Henry

Erik D Gillow

Kienan D McCarty

Cuneyt Bakan

Chi Zhang

Tristan Sansbury

Jason Bakhshi

John R Kamorowski

Jason A U De Souza

Daniel J Hoff

Annie T Zhang

John V Abram

Heather M Martin

Kevin K Mayer

Timothy J McHenry

Stephen R Mcclure

Rizal Johari

Patrick J Quinn

Brianna C Wilson

Oliver C Ross

Kyle G Lobisser

Chuan You Su

Iii Donald Q Ross

Gomez Rodney A Angulo

An electronic device may have a hinge that allows the device to be flexed about a bend axis. A display may span the bend axis. To facilitate bending about the bend axis, the display may have layers such as a display cover layer with grooves or other recesses. The recesses form a flexible portion in the display layer. The display layer may be formed from glass or other materials that are transparent. Elastomeric material, fluids, and other materials may be placed in the recesses in the display layer. The material in the display layer may have an index of refraction that is matched to the index of refraction of the display layer. A hinge may be formed between rigid planar layers that are separated by a gap. Flexible layers that lie flush with opposing surfaces of the rigid planar layers may be used to span the gap.

Electronic devices with flexible displays

A portable electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The portable electronic device can include a number of components that can provide desired functionalities and levels of performance. For example, the device can include one or more couplers that interconnect various portions of the housing together. Additionally or alternatively, the portable electronic device can include one or more millimeter-wave antennas. Additionally, or alternatively, the electronic device can include one or more grounding elements or layers that reliably and electrically ground the display to the housing.

Electronic device

Electronic devices with flexible displays and cover layers with grooves

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

Disclosed herein are methods and systems for providing haptic output on an electronic device. In some embodiments, the electronic device includes an actuator configured to move in a first direction. The electronic device also includes a substrate coupled to the actuator. When the actuator moves in the first direction, the substrate or a portion of the substrate, by virtue of being coupled to the actuator, moves in a second direction. In some implementations, the movement of the substrate is perpendicular to the movement of the actuator.

Contracting and elongating materials for providing input and output for an electronic device

A portable electronic device, having a single piece housing to carry operational components having a front opening, an integral bottom and sidewalls that cooperate to form a cavity in cooperation with the front opening. The operational components can include a display to present visual content disposed within the front opening and having an outermost protective layer, a main logic board that extends along a central portion of the cavity having a size and shape that bisects the cavity into a first portion and a second portion each having substantially the same size and shape, a power storage system supported at the bottom wall and comprising a first power storage unit located in the first portion and second power storage unit located in the second portion, each being coupled to the main logic board, and self-contained audio components positioned at each corner of the single piece housing.

Architecture features of an electronic device

A portable computing device is disclosed. The portable computing device can take many forms such as a laptop computer, a tablet computer, and no on. The portable computing device can include a single piece housing formed from a radio opaque material with a cover formed from a radio transparent material. To implement a wireless interface, an antenna stack-up can be provided that allows an antenna to be mounted to a bottom of the cover. Methods and apparatus are provided for improving wireless performance. For instance, in one embodiment, a metal housing can be thinned to improve antenna performance. As another example, a faraday cage can be formed around speaker drivers to improve antenna performance.

Antenna, shielding and grounding

A portable input device is described. The portable input device can wirelessly send control signals to an external circuit. The control signals can derive from touch or gestures applied to a touch sensitive surface. The control signals can also include a mouse click equivalent control signal generated by mechanical manipulation of the portable input device.

Portable multi-touch input device

The disclosed embodiments relate to forming an area on a touchscreen which electrically isolates a portion of the viewable area of the touchscreen from a capacitive sensor associated with the touchscreen.

Mitigating noise in capacitive sensor

This application relates to devices that utilize magnets and associated magnetic sensors. A magnetic sensor can be positioned and oriented with respect to a magnetic element such that the magnetic sensor is capable of detecting a horizontal magnetic field component in contrast to the conventional paradigm of detecting a vertical magnetic field component. This can be accomplished by orienting a magnetically sensitive surface of the magnetic sensor about ninety degrees with respect to a magnetic vector of the magnetic element.

Using magnets to detect a state of a cover

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Erik Andrew Uttermann