Apple Inc.

Sensor Holdings Limited

Lewis Freeth Harpham

Arunim Kumar

Ya-Ting Wang

Sander Vocke

Junbo Zeng

Paul David Marson

Aaron Rex Keith

Todd Alan Gisby

Andrew Thomas Wong

Llewellyn Adair Sims Johns

Elodie Lyath Bouzbib

Jeremy Labrado

Paul Malcolm Guininbert

Felix Qing-Song Lun

One aspect of the invention provides an interconnect between a stretchable electronic element and a circuit on a rigid or flexible printed circuit board (PCB Circuit), the stretchable electronic element is operable to be mechanically coupled to a substrate which deforms, and the stretchable electronic element will deform with the substrate and may or may not change an electrical characteristic as a result, the stretchable electronic element comprising one or more electrical pathways; the PCB Circuit configured to communicate electronically with the stretchable electronic element and comprising at least one circuit board extending from the stretchable electronic element to an electrical circuit on the PCB Circuit; wherein the interconnect comprises an electrical coupling between the electrical pathways of the stretchable electronic element and the PCB Circuit; and wherein the interconnect simultaneously prevents the connection between the stretchable electronic element from failing when the stretchable substrate is stretched in normal operation, minimizes the bulk of support material required to support the interconnect, and minimizes any reduction in the stretch capabilities of the stretchable substrate.

Interconnecting circuit board to stretchable wires

A system for inductive power transfer that may selectively transmit power in a plurality of modes based on characteristics of a power receiver and determine which transmitter coils to drive based on received signal strength information. The inductive power transfer transmitter may detect characteristics of the power receiver in order to control the mode of the power transfer and selectively control which transmitter coils are driven based on signal strength information received from a power receiver. The power transmitter may have slugs formed of a magnetically permeable material within common coil winding openings and the transmitter coils may consists of a plurality of parallel windings.

System and method for power transfer

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Auckland, New Zealand

Lewis Freeth Harpham