Apple Inc.

Spark Grills, Inc.

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Airbnb, Inc.

Humane, Inc.

Miguel C Christophy

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Daniel William Jarvis

Shayan Malek

Tang Yew Tan

Storrs Townsend Hoen

Vivek Katiyar

Ian A Spraggs

Sinan Filiz

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Christopher J Stringer

Martha Evans Hankey

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniele De Iuliis

Daniel J Coster

Jody R Akana

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Jeremy D Bataillou

Julian Hoenig

Shota Aoyagi

Mikael M Silvanto

Mattia Pascolini

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Bret Recor

Brian Quentin Huppi

Kenneth Young

Jared Mitchell Kole

Romain A Teil

Kristina A Babiarz

Virosh Rangalla

Merric French

Benjamin West

Jack Knoebber

Steven Porter Hotelling

David A Pakula

Erik G De Jong

Benjamin J Pope

Sawyer Isaac Cohen

Peter W Richards

Enrique Ayala Vazquez

Lucy Elizabeth Browning

Jonah Alexander Harley

Martin Paul Grunthaner

Omar Sze Leung

Hongfei Hu

Nanbo Jin

Steven James Martisauskas

Lee E Hooton

Jason S Sloey

Dhaval N Shah

Erdinc Irci

Salih Yarga

Tyler B Cater

Christopher T Cheng

Erica J Tong

Christopher J Butler

Anand Lakshmanan

Ming L Sartee

Rui Qiao

Jonathan C Denby

Imran A Chaudhri

Robert W Schlub

Ruben Caballero

Ming Xu

John Stephen Smith

Kingsuk Brahma

Jayesh Nath

Hao Xu

Jennifer M Edwards

Patrick G Gates

Benjamin Shane Bustle

James E Pedder

Kelvin Kwong

Richard Hung Dinh

Bethany Bongiorno

Cormac Eubanks

Peter I Bevelacqua

Silvio Grespan

Michael Vosgueritchian

Vikram Garg

James J Blanc

Stefan C Mag

Andrei Goverdovskii

Andriy Pletenetskyy

Nicole Voyen

Joseph Nicholas Gebbia

James Nicholas Pazzi

Christopher Perry Barton

John Oskar Ceideburg

Craig Jacobson

Petr Novikov

Fedor Novikov

Benjamin Hane Bustle

Sara Glick

Lisa Feine Dudley

A device configured to determine the location and magnitude of a touch on a surface of the device. The device includes a transparent touch sensor that is configured to detect a location of a touch on the transparent touch sensor. The device also includes a force-sensing structure disposed at the periphery of the transparent touch sensor. The force sensor includes an upper capacitive plate and a compressible element disposed on one side of the upper capacitive plate. The force sensor also includes a lower capacitive plate disposed on a side of the compressible element that is opposite the upper capacitive plate.

Force determination based on capacitive sensing

A portable battery pack and portable electronic device communicate by pulsing (turning on/off) their respective battery chargers causing variations in a magnetic field between the battery pack and portable electronic device that can be used to transmit and receive short messages through their respective coils using a magnetic communication protocol. Data or messages can be transferred between portable battery pack and portable electronic device when the portable battery pack and portable electronic device are in a mated configuration. The magnetic communication protocol allows for bi-directional communication of various battery status indicators and other data from the portable battery pack to the portable electronic device and vice-versa. The magnetic communication also allows the portable electronic device to be authenticated by the portable battery pack or vice-versa, such that the absence of any communication between the portable electronic device and portable battery pack renders the portable electronic device fully/partially inoperable.

Portable battery pack for wirelessly charging and communicating with portable electronic device through clothing

Cooking appliance fuel block

Cooking appliance

Cooking appliance control dial

Display for an electronic communication device

A reusable modular housing system has a gridded structure comprising reusable components with dimensions corresponding to a two-unit system. The structure has floor and ceiling grids with dimensions that correspond to multiples of a first unit of measurement. The vertical beams that connect the floor and ceiling grids are spaced apart at dimensions that also correspond to multiples of the first unit of measurement. The structure has a variety of other components that can be coupled to the floor and ceiling grids and the vertical beams, and those other components have dimensions that correspond to a multiple of a second unit of measurement. Dimensions of the structure can vary, but each of the component parts can be detachably coupled into the gridded structure, so as to fit within the grid's dimensions based on respective multiples of the first unit of measurement and the second unit of measurement. The structure can be assembled into a first configuration, and when use of the structure is completed, the structure can be disassembled into its component parts which can be later assembled into the first configuration or a different second configuration. Use of a two-unit system of dimensions for the system allows for component parts to be reused on the same or other structures designed within the same dimensional system.

Reusable modular housing system

A display may have a backlight unit that provides backlight illumination. The backlight unit may include a light guide that distributes light throughout the display and an electrically adjustable lens array. The lens array may have lenses such as liquid lenses or liquid crystal lenses. By adjusting the lenses in the lens array, the angles of rays of backlight from the backlight unit may be adjusted to adjust the angle-of-view of the display. The angle-of-view of the display may also be adjusted using an electrically controllable filter layer. The electrically controllable filter layer may have a liquid crystal layer or a polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer that can be controlled using electrodes. When the electrodes apply signals to the electrically controllable filter layer, portions of the filter layer change to a dark or translucent state and restrict the angle-of-view of the display.

Display apparatus with adjustable angles-of-view comprising backlight structures having an electrically adjustable lens array that adjusts backlight illumination

An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna resonating element arm for an antenna may be formed from peripheral conductive structures running along the edges of a device housing. The peripheral conductive structures may form housing sidewalls. A slot may be machined into a metal housing that separates the housing sidewalls from a planar rear housing portion that forms a ground for an antenna. The slot may be filled with plastic filler. A parasitic antenna resonating element arm that supports an antenna resonance at high band frequencies may be embedded within the plastic filler. The parasitic antenna resonating element may be formed from a portion of the planar rear housing portion.

Electronic device antenna with embedded parasitic arm

Although embodiments have been fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be noted that various changes and modifications will become apparent to those skilled in the art. Such changes and modifications are to be understood as being included within the scope of the various embodiments as defined by the appended claims. The foregoing description has broad application. Accordingly, the discussion of any embodiment is meant only to be an example and is not intended to suggest that the scope of the disclosure, including the claims, is limited to these examples.

Force sensing of inputs through strain analysis

The described embodiments relate to embedding a threaded insert into a thin-walled housing. A recess can be formed with a machining tool that forms a recess in a thickened portion of the thin-walled housing. In some embodiments, the recess can be formed along one of the walls of the thin-walled housing in a location having highly a constrained amount of space available. Once the recess is formed a threaded insert can be pressed into the recess. An interference fit can be utilized to lodge the press-nut securely within the recess. Alternatively, a retaining member can be positioned across a front portion of the recess to trap the threaded insert between the retaining member and a rear surface of the recess.

Press nut designs to minimize stack thickness

An electronic device has a force sensor that determines a measure of applied force from a user contacting a cover glass of the device. In one embodiment, a frame at least partially encloses an interior of the electronic device and has an open end. A cover glass covers the open end of the frame and is movably connected to the frame to allow movement of the cover glass in response to one or more forces applied to an external surface of the cover glass. A plurality of strain probes is positioned under the cover glass, between the cover glass and the frame, and is arranged to output a plurality of strain signals response to the one or more forces applied to the cover glass. A force processing module is configured to at least calculate an amount of force applied to the cover glass based on the plurality of strain signals.

A force sensor is disclosed. The force sensor includes a force-sensitive structure that compensates for temperature and other environmental changes through the use of a strain-sensitive element and one or more reference elements. An array of such force-sensitive structures forms a force-sensing layer.

Electronic device having direction-dependent strain elements

A housing for a personal electronic device is described herein. The housing may include at least one modular subassembly configured to be arranged within an internal cavity of the housing. The at least one modular subassembly is aligned with a feature external to the housing, is affixed to an interior surface of the internal cavity, and is configured to function both as an antenna and as an internal support member of the housing.

Modular structural and functional subassemblies

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Miguel C Christophy