Apple Inc.

Ming L Sartee

Erik G De Jong

Steven James Martisauskas

Tyler S Bushnell

Serhan O Isikman

Andrzej T Baranski

Todd K Whitehurst

Steven J Banaska

Steven Porter Hotelling

Tang Yew Tan

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

David A Pakula

Brian Quentin Huppi

Sawyer Isaac Cohen

Peter W Richards

Storrs Townsend Hoen

Jonah Alexander Harley

Martin Paul Grunthaner

Ian A Spraggs

Omar Sze Leung

Lee E Hooton

Dhaval N Shah

Miguel C Christophy

Christopher J Butler

Vivek Katiyar

Rui Qiao

Tan Yew Tan

A wearable electronic device includes a body, a housing component, a band operable to attach the body to a body part of a user, and a force sensor coupled to the housing component. The force sensor is operable to produce a force signal based on a force exerted between the body part of the user and the housing component. A processing unit of the wearable electronic device receives the force signal from the force sensor and determines the force exerted on the housing component based thereon. The processing unit may use that force to determine a tightness of the band, determine health information for the user, adjust determined force exerted on a cover glass, and/or to perform various other actions.

Sensing contact force related to user wearing an electronic device

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

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Ming L Sartee