Apple Inc.

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Jay Kevin Osborn

Brett W Degner

John Raff

Chris A Ligtenberg

Matthew Phillip Casebolt

Patrick Kessler

Ron Alan Hopkinson

John M Brock

Bradley Joseph Hamel

Caitlin Elizabeth Kalinowski

Michelle Rae Goldberg

Nicholas Alan Rundle

Laura M DeForest

Robert L Coish

Eugene J Kim

Euan S Abraham

Jim C Hwang

David John Yeh

Steven Keiper

Peter W Richards

Brett William Degner

A portable computing device includes at least a base portion of a lightweight material that includes at least a wedge shaped top case having a trough formed at an interfacing edge thereof. The trough includes a raised portion having a first contact surface and a receiving area, and a bottom case coupled to the top case to form a complete housing for at least a portion of the portable computing device for enclosing at least a plurality of operational components and a plurality of structural components. The portable computing device also includes at least a lid portion pivotally connected to the base portion by a hinge assembly. In the described embodiments, the lid portion has a display in communication with one or more of the plurality of components in the base portion by way of or more electrical conductors that electrically connect the base portion to the lid portion.

Portable computing device

Touch pad structures are provided that gather touch sensor data. The data may be used to control a computer or other electronic device. The touch pad structures may be integrated into a computer or other computing equipment or may be provided as a stand-alone accessory. The touch pad structures may include a touch sensor array. The touch sensor array may include rows and columns of touch sensor electrodes, interconnect lines, and other conductive structures. The conductive structures on the touch sensor array may be formed from patterned layers of ink. Interconnect line segments in different layer of ink may be connected in rectangular contact regions. The touch sensor array may have a tail. A layer of insulator may be removed from the substrate across a tip portion of the tail to allow the line segments to be connected.

Touch sensor arrays with integrated inter-layer contacts

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Dublin, CA, United States of America

Jay Kevin Osborn