Apple Inc.

Google Inc.

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Rico L Zorkendorfer

David Hendler Sloo

Arun Dhyaneshwar Chawan

Lee M Panecki

Shannon X Yang

Giancarlo Giustina

Sung Kyun Bai

Benjamin A Cousins

Mark Rose

Peter A Privitera

Chou Wen-Pin

PeiWen Hung

Kevin Montford Ting

Eric Steven Jol

Kurt R Stiehl

Daniel C Wagman

Jason Joseph LeBlanc

Jonathan Sarjeant Aase

Anurag Gupta

Mark D Stefanski

Zachary C Rich

Isabel I Guenette

Daniel Max Strongwater

John Stefanski

Eric B Daniels

Orville Buenaventura

Vivek Goyal

Alexander Schoenen

David Saltzman

Jason J Leblanc

HVAC control device

A case for an earbud includes a receiving cavity sized and shaped to accept the earbud within the receiving cavity. The case includes one or more housing magnetic components configured to magnetically attract and secure the earbud within the receiving cavity.

Magnetic retention of earbud within cavity

A case for a portable listening device has a housing and a lid. The lid is attached to the housing with a pivotable joint and operates between an open and a closed position with an over-center mechanism that employs a plurality of magnetic elements.

Case with magnetic over-center mechanism

According to one embodiment, a thermostat includes a main body, a rotatable input component that is rotatably coupled with the main body, and a rotation detection system that is configured to sense user rotation of the rotatable input component. The rotatable input component is configured to be rotated by a user to enable the user to provide input to the thermostat. The rotation detection system includes a magnetic component that is positioned on an inner surface of the rotatable input component and that is magnetized so as to have a plurality of alternating north and south magnetic regions. The rotation detection system also includes a sensor that is positioned adjacent the magnetic component. The sensor is configured to detect polarity changes as the rotatable input component and magnetic component are rotated relative to the sensor.

Rotation detection for ring-shaped user input member of smart-home device

An earbud includes a housing having a touch sensitive region at an exterior surface of the housing. A capacitive sensor insert is disposed within the housing and has metallized circuitry formed on a first surface that is positioned adjacent an interior surface of the housing.

Earbuds with capacitive touch sensor

A case for an earbud includes a receiving cavity sized and shaped to accept the earbud within the receiving cavity. The case includes one or more housing magnetic components configured to magnetically attract and secure the earbud within the receiving cavity. The one or more housing magnetic components can be configured to form a Halbach array to increase the magnetic force of the one or more housing magnetic components. The earbud includes a speaker magnet and a separate magnetic element that are arranged to be attracted to the one or more housing magnetic components such that the earbud is attracted into the receiving cavity.

A thermostat may include a proximity sensor and a temperature sensor. The thermostat may also include a sensor mount assembly containing the proximity sensor, the temperature sensor, and a first alignment feature. The thermostat may additionally include a lens assembly having a first area, a second area, and a second alignment feature, where the second area includes a Fresnel lens, and the first area is thinner than the second area. The thermostat may further include a front cover where the outward-facing surface of the lens assembly is shaped to continuously conform to a curvature of the front cover. The thermostat may also include a frame member with third and fourth alignment features configured for respective matable alignment with the first and second alignment features and configured such that the proximity sensor and the temperature sensor are maintained in generally close, non-touching proximity to the lens assembly, the first area of the lens assembly being aligned with the proximity sensor, and the second area of the lens assembly being aligned with the temperature sensor.

Thermostat with multiple sensing systems integrated therein

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