Apple Inc.

Amlogic Co., Limited

Hao Zhu

James Alexander Stryker

Stephen E Dey

Hsiang Hung Chen

Sean S Corbin

Bradley Joseph Hamel

Florence W Ow

John C Difonzo

Samuel Gilkison Smith

Richard D Kosoglow

Brett W Degner

David H Narajowski

Melody L Kuna

Yang Zhou

Xiang Zhang

Michael D McBroom

Aidan N Zimmerman

George Tziviskos

Erik Andrew Uttermann

Gianpaolo Lisi

Laura M DeForest

Joel N Ruscher

Robert Scritzky

Edward T Sweet

Richard P Howarth

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Nicolas Pedro Lylyk

Jeremy C Franklin

Stephen Robert McClure

Mahmoud R Amini

Robert V Tang

Edward Siahaan

Ethan Larry Huwe

Craig Matthew Stanley

Esge Brandt Andersen

Arun Dhyaneshwar Chawan

Kristopher P Laurent

Liquan Tan

Paul Joseph Hack

Blake R Marshall

Jean-Marc Gery

John C DiFonzo

Amy Qian

Benjamin A Cousins

Scott Charles Grinker

Lee M Panecki

Jason C Della Rosa

Chieh-Yuan Chao

Yoonhoo Jo

Oliver Ross

Brian R Twehues

Qigen Ji

Zaki Moustafa

Nicholas R Trincia

Guangtao Zhang

Travis C Pedley

Timothy Wallen Scales

Caitlin M McLain

Fernando F Cunha

Reza Nasiri Mahalati

Taylor Harrison Gilbert

Nan Liu

Ming Yu

Samuel G Parker

Li-Quan Tan

Clayton J McCoy

Peter N Jeziorek

Danny L McBroom

Karen Y Cheng

Benjamin A Stevenson

Lauren M Farrell

Madhusudanan Keezhveedi Sampath

Linda D Benavente-Notaro

Thomas R Matzinger

Sunita Venkatesh

William H Chui

Rimple Bhatia

Yunhe Huang

Jessica J Lu

Donald L Olmstead

Nicholas A Treadwell

Thanh Phong Hua

Jaime G Chavez Ruiz Garza

Kai Fan

Kodiak D Burke

Whitney D Mattson

Mei Zhang

Meiting Wu

Ryan David

Ethan W Juhnke

David A Jungquist

Amit S Barve

Trevor S Chambers

Jack Pickup

Haochuan Sang

Liming Wang

Maurizio Bertoldo

Stefano Tizianel

Noemi Novello

Ayoub Yari Boroujeni

A wristband can comfortably secure an electronic device, such as a wristwatch or fitness/health tracking device, to a wrist of a user. The wristband can include a number of magnets that allow the wristband to be magnetically coupled to itself when folded over or when separate band portions are overlapping. The magnets can include a polymer mixed with a magnetic material to provide magnetic properties and flexibility. The magnets can be joined together by a continuous support structure that extends through opposing pairs of the magnets. The support structure can provide substantial and ability as well as tensile strength. The magnets and the support structure can be surrounded by a flexible cover to protect the components within.

Wristbands with magnetic coupling

A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing containing rear-facing displays that display images for a user when the head-mounted housing is worn by the user. The head-mounted device housing may have housing structures such as elongated housing members with protruding posts. A headband may be removably coupled to the head-mounted device housing. The headband may have a strap with openings configured to receive the posts. Releasable latches may be provided to allow selective engagement and disengagement between the headband and the housing. The latches may contain movable latch members that are biased using magnetic biasing mechanisms, spring-based biasing mechanisms, or other biasing mechanisms. To release each latch, a tab, button, toggle lever, slider, or other release mechanisms may be actuated by a user. This moves the movable latch member from a closed latch position to an open latch position that releases the headband from the housing.

Devices with detachable headbands

Connector inserts having reliable contacts, as well as connector receptacles having improved magnetic circuits for use in electronic devices having a thin form factor. These and other examples can provide connector receptacles that can be easily aligned to an opening in an electronic device, as well as connector inserts and connector receptacles that can be readily manufactured.

Magnetic circuit for magnetic connector

This application relates to improving kinematics in a computing device such as a laptop computer. A magnetic latch mechanism includes a magnetic array and an attractor plate. The magnetic array is secured in a top portion of the laptop computer and the attractor plate is secured in a base portion of the laptop computer. An attractive force of the magnetic latch mechanism is calibrated by selectively demagnetizing a portion of one or more magnetic elements in the magnetic array to reduce the attractive force proximate a target force. The calibration technique can include exciting a demagnetizing element, such as a pair of conductive coils, with a short, high frequency demagnetization pulse to create a demagnetized zone within the magnetic array that is completely demagnetized, irrespective of unit to unit variations of magnetic properties in the initially magnetized magnetic array. This technique ensures an accurate kinematic user experience.

Magnetic field adjustments to a magnetic latch for producing accurate kinematics in a computing device

Display assemblies for supporting displays on stands or support arms have mount portions to removably attach to the displays using magnetic assemblies and latches. The magnetic assemblies and latches can improve user experience and allow the display to be installed on a support arm from the viewing side of the display and without having to see or reach behind the display. Magnetic structures can center a mount portion of the support arm and a recess of the display and can attract them to each other. Laterally-extending latches can ensure the display is not inadvertently removed. Locking mechanisms can prevent the display from being rotated to a portrait orientation when sufficient space around the display and the necessary user intent is not provided.

Display support arm mount

An accessory device for a portable electronic device is described. The accessory device includes a front cover connected to a back cover. The front cover includes multiple segments rotatable with respect to each other. The segments include magnets that allow the segments, through magnetic coupling, to couple with another segment or with the portable electronic device. When the front cover engages the back cover, a user may remove, or pull away, a segment from the back cover, causing the remaining segments to sequentially fall away from the back cover. In some instances, when the front cover at least partially engages the back cover, one of the segments includes magnets designed to couple with magnets in the back cover, but not with magnets in another segment. The accessory device may further include an opening that receives a camera assembly of the portable electronic device and forms a mechanical interlock.

Accessory cover for a portable electronic device

Connectors that have a low profile, can form strong and reliable connections despite connection alignment errors, and can be readily manufactured. One example can provide a connector receptacle having a magnetic array arranged to provide a strong attachment that allows the use of a low profile connector receptacle and connector insert. The magnetic array can include magnets and magnetic elements, where the magnetic elements can be magnetically conductive pole-pieces. Each pole piece can have magnets at two of its sides. Another example can provide contacts for a connector insert that can have more than one contacting surface to connect to a contact of a connector receptacle.

Magnetic connectors with self-centering floating contacts

An enclosure may be provided with a housing. The housing may have an opening that separates and joins along a seam. A magnetic closure may have a pair of mating flexible magnetic members such as flexible rings or strips that run along the seam. Magnetic-field shunts may be provided in the flexible magnetic members. Multiple magnetic elements may be formed along the length of each magnetic member to form a multipole permanent magnet. Magnetic attraction may be varied along the lengths of the magnetic members and may be varied as a function of the separation between opposing magnet members. A magnetic clasp may be provided on the housing. The magnetic clasp may have attracting magnets to help close the opening in the housing. Protruding clasp portions may be formed from flexible material and may have embedded magnets configured to repel each other to facilitate use of the clasp.

Enclosures with flexible magnetic closures and clasps

Embodiments describe a magnetic securing component including a set of magnets positioned laterally adjacent to one another and having a curved top surface defined by individual curved top surfaces of each magnet in the set of magnets. The set of magnets includes: first and second magnets positioned laterally adjacent to one another, where the first and second magnets each have a polarity that is oriented parallel to a vertical dimension; and third and fourth magnets laterally positioned from the first and second magnets, where the third magnet is positioned adjacent to the first magnet and the fourth magnet is positioned adjacent to the second magnet, the third and fourth magnets each having a magnetic polarity that is oriented at an angle with respect to the vertical dimension.

Magnet array for securing wireless listening devices

Embodiments describe a receiving element that includes a ferromagnetic structure axially symmetrical around a central axis disposed along a length of the ferromagnetic structure. The ferromagnetic structure includes a groove region defining two end regions on opposing sides of the groove region, where the groove region has a smaller length than the two end regions. The receiving element also includes an inductor coil wound about the groove region of the ferromagnetic structure and in between the two end regions.

Attachment devices for inductive interconnection systems

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