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Palmone, Incorporated

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Qualcomm Incorporated

Lawrence K Lam

Felix Jose Alvarez Rivera

Gadi Amit

Amy A Han

Shawn Robert Gettemy

Richard Gioscia

Yoshikazu Hoshino

Kenneth Ryan Loo

Jacqueline Belleau

Andrew Bowers

Roy Joseph Riccomini

Sungyun Kim

William Robert Hanson

James Tanner

Bernardo Núñez Rojas

Chris J Stringer

Jeffrey Y Hayashida

Christophe P Koch

Jory Bell

Huy P Nguyen

Cathal Loughnane

David Christophe Northway

Kevin Tom

Ji Heun Lee

Albert T Ngo

Huy M Nguyen

William Riis Hamburgen

Adam Rodriguez

William D Webb

Joseph Edward Clayton

Alan C Urban

Prashant B Patel

Kenneth Thomas McAlpine

Maaike Louise Evers

Aaron Leiba

Steven J Shiozaki

Chrome Manley Cebe

Kean Wong

Bill Webb

Felix Alvarez Rivera

Anna Pia Slothower

Bartley K Andre

Yoshimichi Matsuoka

Yoon Kean Wong

Daniel Henry Fourie

Michael Alexander Yurochko

Stephen Senatore

Te-Chang Lin

Sherridythe A Fraser

David Christopher

Rich Gioscia

Kevin Garth Lee

Susanne M Pierce

Joshua Boilard

Ken R Weber

Michael Christian Ryner

Vivek Saini

Philip Scott McClendon

Brent Eikanas

Victor Heldt

John F Larkin

Masamichi Udagawa

Thompson Tang

Bobby L Ramsey

Zita Netzel

Gwen M Dreyer

Lawrence James Kerila

Christopher J Stringer

Bruce M Schena

Stephen Paul Zadesky

Martin Philip Riddiford

Sung Hoon Kim

John C Difonzo

Andreas Georg Nowatzyk

John Stuart Fitch

Kelvin Kwong

Troy Hulick

Yi Tao

Anthony Wykeham Jacomb-Hood

Daniel Philip Groebe

James Cooper

Leng Ooi

Bradley Blackwood

David Y Wang

Mohamed Mahmoud

Michael Asfaw

Todd Lewis

Grace Tseng

Sajid Patel

Mark C Sorensen

Kiarash Vakhshouri

Avi Hecht

John Terrence Reagan

Nicholas D Saiz

Hilary S Lackritz

James C Beffa

Naoto Fukasawa

Stephen Lee

Timothy Edwin Van Eck

Bernardo Núñez

Tablet computer

Closed laptop computer

Stylus

Open laptop computer

A solid state drive (SSD) storage bay includes storage trays and connector cards. A storage tray has a an interposer and an SSD module. A connector of the interposer is connected to a connector of the SSD module, and another connector of the interposer is connected to a connector of a connector card. The connector card includes terminals that connect to a bus of a computer system. The interposer includes wirings that allow electrical signals to propagate between the two connectors of the interposer. The interposer includes circuitry that allow for voltage regulation of supply voltage, level shifting, and hot-swapping.

Adaptable storage bay for solid state drives

A computing device includes memory configured for storing executable instructions, a processor configured for executing the instructions, a foldable display layer configured for displaying information in response to the execution of the instructions, and a bend limit layer coupled to the foldable display layer and arranged substantially parallel to a display surface of the foldable display layer. The bend limit layer is configured to increase its stiffness non-linearly when a radius of a bend of the bend limit layer is less than a threshold radius of curvature of the foldable display layer, the threshold radius of curvature being greater than 1 mm and less than 20 mm.

Bend limit film

Plug

A computing device may include an audio output device installed in a base housing. A front volume of the audio output device may be defined in part by an inner facing surface of a housing of the computing device, with an audio output port defined by an opening in the housing. In some computing devices, the opening defining the audio output port may also accommodate a hinge assembly rotatably coupling the housing to a display. A path from the audio output device to the audio output port may be defined in part by a support pad that guides sound out through the audio output port toward the user, and may also function as a support pad supporting the computing device on a work surface when operating in a tablet mode.

Audio output device and audio output port of computing device

In one general aspect, a computing device includes a lid, and a base coupled to the lid by a hinge, the hinge including a bi-stable hinge part including a toggle pivot and a toggle link bar, and a barrel hinge part including a hollow shaft, at least one friction element surrounding a first portion of the hollow shaft, and a casing surrounding a second portion of the hollow shaft, the casing being connected to the toggle link bar. The computing device includes a first mounting tab connected to the toggle link bar and connected to the base, and a second mounting tab connected to the at least one friction element and connected to the lid. The barrel hinge part enables the at least one friction element to rotate about the hollow shaft causing the lid to rotate relative to the base.

360 degree bi-stable dual pivot hinge

In one general aspect, a method of coupling a base to a lid of a computing device using a hinge can include coupling a base hinge flange to the base, the base hinge flange being connected to a base hinge part that includes a knuckle including a toggle pivot, the toggle pivot coupled to and surrounding a first portion of a first shaft, and coupling a lid hinge flange to the lid, the lid hinge flange being connected to a main hinge part that includes a first cam, the lid hinge flange including a first lid main band and a second lid main band surrounding a first portion of a second shaft, the second shaft being parallel to the first shaft.

360 degree dual pivot variable torque hinge mechanism

A computing device may include a multi-functional port in a base housing of the device. The multi-functional port may include an audio input device that can receive and process external audio input signals through an opening in the base housing. The multi-functional port may include a light source that can output light through the opening in the base housing. The multi-functional port may include a microphone boot. The microphone boot may guide external audio input signals into to the audio input device for processing. The microphone boot may also guide light, emitted by the light source, out of the base housing.

Combined microphone and lighting device and computing device having same

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