Apple Inc.

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Kevin David Gibbs

Stephen Robert McClure

John Patrick Ternus

Jeremy C Franklin

John Raff

Benjamin M Rappoport

Derek William Wright

Joshua D Banko

Amy Qian

Sean S Corbin

Erik Andrew Uttermann

Richard P Howarth

Christopher J Stringer

Daniel J Coster

Elvis Mwenda Kibiti

Jeremy D Bataillou

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Justin Richard Wodrich

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Martha Evans Hankey

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniele De Iuliis

Jody R Akana

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Julian Hoenig

Shin Nishibori

Eugene Antony Whang

Samuel Gilkison Smith

Patrick Kessler

Florence W Ow

Jiang Ai

Cheng Kai Chen

Martin Paul Grunthaner

Qingxiang Li

Carl R Peterson

Jules B Henry

Martin B Adamcyk

Peter M Thompson

Arthur J Lucchesi

Brian Scott Carpenter

Timothy G Van Vorhis

Matthew B Morris

Ming Yu

Alex Chun Lap Yeung

Dhaval Chandrakant Patel

Inna Lobel

Conor P Lenahan

Jonathan Ternus

George V Anastas

Joshua R Funamura

Kristina A Babiarz

Soyoung Kim

Robert Scritzky

Manu Agarwal

Max A Maloney

Piotr S Trzaskos

Eugene C Cheung

Julio C Quintero

David Kim

Erik D Gillow

Alex C Yeung

Joseph F Alverson

Donald Q Ross, Iii

Erik A Utterman

Ming Leong

Chuan You Su

Eugen Anthony Whang

Stephen R Mcclure

Samuel T Reineman

Henry Jules

Brianna C Wilson

Iii Donald Q Ross

Gomez Rodney A Angulo

Electronic devices may be provided having internal components mounted to a structural glass support member. The structural glass support member may have a planar front surface that forms a front surface of the device. The structural glass support member may have bent portions that form sidewall surfaces of the device. Portions of the structural glass support member may form a transparent display cover layer. A rigid or flexible display may be mounted to the structural glass support member. Additional internal device components may be mounted to the display. A thin enclosure for enclosing the internal components in the device may be mounted to the structural glass support member. The thin enclosure may be mounted to the structural glass support member using a peripheral member. The thin enclosure may be free from attachments to internal components or may be adhesively bonded to one or more internal components.

Electronic devices with structural glass members

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

Systems and methods for providing localized tactile output and systems and methods for obtaining localized physical characteristic information are disclosed. An electronic device can include a friction transducer configured to augment and/or detect friction between a surface of an electronic device and an object in contact with that electronic device. The electronic device may also include a force transducer configured to detect the force with which an object contacts a display. The force transducer may also provide mechanical output. The electronic device can also include a thermal transducer to augment and/or detect the temperature of various locations on a display.

Multi-transducer tactile user interface for electronic devices

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 including a plurality of steps. The plurality of mounting steps are formed by at least removing a preselected amount of housing material at predetermined locations on the interior surface. At least some of the mounting steps are used to mount at least some of the plurality of internal operating components housing.

Component assembly

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 a single piece housing and a display module. The display module can include a protective top glass cover that is bonded to a plastic display frame and surrounded by a seal frame. The display module can also include a display panel and its associated circuitry suspended from the display frame below the protective glass cover. The display module is coupled to the single piece housing using mounting clips in a manner that allows the display module to move relative to the single piece housing during an impact event. The plastic display frame can include inserts that provide structural support near openings in the single piece housing.

Display module

An electronic device comprises a housing, a motion sensor configured to sense motion of the housing, and a processor configured to determine an impact geometry based on the motion. A countermeasure system comprises an actuator coupled to an actuated member. The actuated member is operable by the actuator to modify the impact geometry, so that impact energy is redirected away from an impact sensitive component of the electronic device to an energy absorbing component of the electronic device.

Drop countermeasures for electronic 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

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San Carlos, CA, United States of America

Kevin David Gibbs