Apple Inc.

Other

Jds Uniphase Corporation

Wavesplitter Technologies, Inc.

Frank Faqiu Liang

Brett W Degner

Jay S Nigen

Matthew Phillip Casebolt

Bartley K Andre

Eugene Antony Whang

Christopher J Stringer

Jeremy D Bataillou

Keith Alan Cox

Ron Alan Hopkinson

David H Narajowski

Charles A Schwalbach

Christiaan A Ligtenberg

Nicholas Alan Rundle

Jesse T Dybenko

Eric R Prather

Joshua D Banko

William Francis Leggett

Kevin Scott Fetterman

Jonathan L Berk

Caitlin Elizabeth Kalinowski

Peteris K Augenbergs

Dinesh C Mathew

Eric Steven Jol

Jeffrey J Terlizzi

Albert John Golko

Thomas W Wilson, Jr

Ihab A Ali

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Jeremy C Franklin

Benjamin M Rappoport

Patrick Kessler

John Meron Ananny

Todd K Moyer

Gaurav Kapoor

Derek William Wright

Paul A Baker

Stephen Theodore Schooley

Adam Thomas Stagnaro

Amaury J Heresztyn

Connor Raymond Duke

Richard H Tan

Eric J Weirshauser

Steven G Herbst

Jeffrey M Alves

Vinh H Diep

Nagarajan Kalyanasundaram

Jim C Hwang

Robert S Parnell

Po Weng Chiu

Jonathan A Matheson

Brian L Chuang

Judith C Segura

Lian Zhang

Kevin Z Lo

Leanne Bach Lien T Ly

Lukose Ninan

Chong Li

Douglas Lea Heirich

Ihtesham H Chowdhury

Mark K Sin

Robert Maaskant

Tracy Brewer

Nigel Copner

Daniel L Mcbroom

Keith Beckley

Derek J Dicarlo

Thomas W Wilson

A Tino Alavie

Connor R Duke

Xu Liu

Michael D Mcbroom

Electronic devices and accessory devices designed for communication with electronic devices are disclosed. An accessory device suitable for use with an electronic device can receive the electronic device. Subject to authentication, the electronic device can read information stored on the accessory device through respective wireless communication circuitry of the electronic device and the accessory device. For example, the accessory device can store information related to the material makeup of the accessory device, dimensional information of the accessory device, and other integrated features. This information can be read and received by the electronic device. As a result, the electronic device can adjust a control system (that regulates thermal energy generation) by increasing a set point temperature that allows one or more processors to operate in a manner consistent with additional thermal energy generation. However, the accessory device protects the user from exposure to the additional thermal energy, thereby preventing injury.

Accessory devices that communicate with electronic devices

Electronic devices have a PCB with a heat-generating component (e.g., POP or SOC), a heat sink, and an EMI shielding structure. A combination structure can include a top heat spreader/EMI shield located above and in thermal contact with the POP/SOC top, a bottom heat spreader/EMI shield located below and in thermal contact with the POP/SOC bottom, and a heat-directing component located on the PCB, laterally surrounding a majority of the POP/SOC sides, and between and in thermal contact with the top and bottom heat spreaders. Resulting heat paths for the POP/SOC include one through its top to the top heat spreader, another through its bottom to the bottom heat spreader, and others through its sides through the PCB through the heat-directing component to the top and bottom heat spreaders. The heat-directing component can be a metal horseshoe shaped pad integrally formed onto the PCB.

Combination parallel path heatsink and EMI shield

The disclosed embodiments related to a component for use in a portable electronic device. The component includes a wall of the portable electronic device, containing an intake zone that includes a set of intake vents. The wall also includes an exhaust zone containing a set of exhaust vents.

Optimized vent walls in electronic devices

Various techniques for temperature management during inductive energy transfer are disclosed. A transmitter device and/or a receiver device can be turned off during energy transfer based on the temperature of the transmitter device and/or of the receiver device.

Temperature management in a wireless energy transfer system

The disclosed embodiments provide a component for a portable electronic device. The component includes a gasket containing a rigid portion disposed around a bottom of a heat pipe, wherein the rigid portion forms a duct between a fan and an exhaust vent of the electronic device. The gasket also includes a first flexible portion bonded to the rigid portion, wherein the first flexible portion comprises a flap that is open during assembly of the heat pipe in the electronic device and closed over the heat pipe and the rigid portion to seal the duct around the heat pipe after the assembly.

Gaskets for thermal ducting around heat pipes

The present application describes various embodiments regarding systems and methods for providing efficient heat rejection for a lightweight and durable compact computing system having a small form factor. The compact computing system can take the form of a desktop computer. The desktop computer can include a monolithic top case having an integrated support system formed therein, the integrated support system providing structural support that distributes applied loads through the top case preventing warping and bowing. A mixed flow fan is utilized to efficiently pull cooling air through the compact computing system.

Computer thermal system

An electronic device can be provided with a housing having at least one wall defining a cavity and a flow sensor at least partially contained within the cavity. The flow sensor may be configured to detect a flow characteristic related to the flow of a fluid through a first portion of the cavity. The electronic device may also include a processor configured to alter a performance characteristic of the electronic device based on the detected flow characteristic.

Cooling electronic devices using flow sensors

The disclosed embodiments related to a component for use in a portable electronic device. The component includes a wall of the portable electronic device, containing an intake zone that includes a set of intake vents directed at a first angle toward one or more heat-generating components of the portable electronic device. The wall also includes an exhaust zone containing a set of exhaust vents directed at a second angle out of the portable electronic device.

The described embodiments relate generally to thermal management and more particularly to a method and apparatus for providing thermal insulation from relatively small heat sources in small form factor electronic devices. An insulator layer can be placed between a small heat source and an exterior surface of the device, such as a cover glass layer. In one embodiment, a graphite layer can also be included between the cover glass layer and the insulator layer to spread any transmitted heat across the cover glass layer.

Thermal blocker for mobile device skin hot spot management

Computer thermal management

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Frank Faqiu Liang